AUKUS and the Building of Australian Undersea Power: John Blaxland Makes the Case
In mid-October 2026, Professor John Blaxland of the Australian National University made the case for AUKUS…
Read More »France and Chad Restore Defense Cooperation on New Terms
France and Chad have signed a letter of intent to restore defense cooperation, less than two…
Read More »Regenerative Airpower: The Next Generation Is an Enterprise, Not a Platform
The word “generation” has been doing a lot of quiet work in airpower for three decades.…
Read More »AUKUS: Strategic Imperative or Costly Mistake?
Overview of Professor John Blaxland’s Interview on Devil’s Advocate (Episode 93) Source: Devil’s Advocate (涵瞰世界), “EP…
Read More »Insourcing versus Integration: Toyota, BYD, and Two Roads to the Global Market
In a recent Defense.info piece, “BYD, Batteries, and the Architecture of Dependence,” I looked at BYD…
Read More »Germany Explores Ground-Based Anti-Satellite Lasers
Germany is examining whether it can field ground-based lasers able to act against satellites. According to…
Read More »Five Airmen on the Way Ahead for Airpower
The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s seminar on The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in…
Read More »From Truck to Toolkit: AUKUS Payloads and the Hull Gap Decade
Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle…
Read More »Multi-Mission Force Multiplication: Phil Gordon on Generating Combat Mass by Doing More with What You Have
When a Lockheed Martin executive takes the stage at an air power seminar, the room expects…
Read More »France Goes It Alone on a Sixth-Generation Fighter
Four months after the collapse of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) it had pursued for…
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