Two Models of Military Power: Iran and the United Kingdom
Few comparisons in contemporary strategic analysis are as instructive or as uncomfortable for Western audiences as…
Read More »Running Toward the Problem: Fairbanks Morse Defense and the Digital Transformation of Naval Sustainment
The U.S. Navy faces a sustainment crisis that is, by most honest accounts, far worse than…
Read More »Robotics and Ship Repairs: A Way Ahead for the U.S. Navy Fleet and their Maintenance
The Navy has tapped Gecko Robotics for a five-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to…
Read More »Understanding the Trump Method
Janet Albrechtsen’s recent essay in The Australian, publishedunder the title “Don’t get mad, get used to…
Read More »Manufacturing for Sustainability: An Enabler for Military Transformation
Military transformation is usually narrated from the top down. Strategic concepts are unveiled in Washington, new…
Read More »From Platform to Ecosystem: Training Transformation and the Time Factor
In my new forthcoming book, Lessons in Military Transformation: From the RMA to the Drone Wars,…
Read More »The Iranian War Can Come Home: The F-35 as America’s Monitor
Preamble The operation in Iran is not simply an external action. It raises directly concerns about…
Read More »Exporting the “Ukrainian Way”: Kyiv’s Battle Tested Playbook Against Iranian Drones
The war in Ukraine is not a conflict bounded by the borders of that country. It…
Read More »The Reshaping of Brazil’s Trade Geometry: A Signal of Broader Structural Change
A news report published on March 10, 2026 by Poder360 offers a compact but revealing snapshot…
Read More »Australia’s Quest for Strategic Resilience in the Indo-Pacific: Reflections on Canadian Proposals
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a stark warning in his address to the Australian parliament.…
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