From Strategy to Diplomacy: Colby’s Seoul Speech and the Operationalization of Flexible Realism
Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby’s January 26 remarks at Seoul’s Sejong Institute represent…
Read More »The Osprey Nacelle Revolution: How Operators and Industry Solved a Crisis That Washington Never Saw Coming
When you spend enough time with maintainers in the fleet rather than briefing officers in the…
Read More »The Anarchy of the Moment: Australia’s Race Between Military Transformation and Strategic Vulnerability
Australia faces a strategic paradox that defines its defense transformation in the 2020s: the Australian Defence…
Read More »Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill Web: Why the Arctic Matters for Fighting at the Speed of Light
By twentieth-century standards, Greenland appears strategically marginal, a remote landmass with minimal population, sparse infrastructure, and…
Read More »Italy’s Strategic Leap: Adding a F-35 Training Hub to Their Training Capabilities
Italy’s recent approval to invest €112.6 million in establishing the Lightning Training Center at Trapani-Birgi Air…
Read More »From Cobra Pilot to Digital Warrior: The Evolution of Marine Corps Digital Interoperability
Five years ago, the cockpit of a Marine Corps AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopter was a very…
Read More »Restoring Strategic Coherence: The 2026 National Defense Strategy as Industrial and Operational Realism
The 2026 National Defense Strategy has generated considerable controversy for its blunt language about allied burden-sharing…
Read More »Imperatives for Australian Combat Readiness and National Resilience in a Contested Indo-Pacific
The comfortable certainties of the post-Cold War era have dissolved. They have been replaced by a…
Read More »From Factory Floor to Frontline: Four Defense Industry Shifts to Watch in 2026
Traditional assumptions of warfare continue to be shattered and rewritten. The defense industry in 2026 will…
Read More »The Monroe Doctrine’s Convenient Amnesia: Historical Reality versus Contemporary Rhetoric
The recent U.S. intervention in Venezuela prompted predictable invocations of the Monroe Doctrine, with policymakers and…
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