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The One-Way Street Runs the Other Way: Clinton’s WTO Forecast and the BYD Reality

11/03/2026
By Robbin Laird

On March 8, 2000, President Bill Clinton went to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced…

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Shaping the Way Ahead for Japanese Defense

11/02/2026
By Robbin Laird

Japan is rebuilding its security architecture around “denial,” and in the last week of October the…

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Special Report: The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific

11/01/2026
By Robbin Laird

For three decades, “generation” has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth.…

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From Leipzig to Abqaiq: Why Drone Defense Is Now a Whole-of-State Problem

10/31/2026
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U.S. gaps in drone defense, highlighted by retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, raise questions about the…

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From Factory to Capability: What Western Australia’s Shipyards Still Need

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Money builds a precinct. Demand, labour and suppliers build a capability. That is the discipline running…

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Time Is Not an Independent Variable: Why the Navy Must Hold the UJTS Award Date

10/30/2026
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Since Boeing withdrew the T-7A Red Hawk from the US Navy’s Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS)…

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NIST’s New AI Incident Guidance Needs a Defense Recovery Drill

10/29/2026
By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

Defense organizations adopting AI agents need more than assurances that a system will follow instructions. They…

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How the Adversary Reads the Impact Force

10/29/2026
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In a recent Defense News opinion piece, Lyle Goldstein surveys Chinese-language assessments of Marine Corps posture…

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Ten Times the Rate: A German Auto Supplier Will Build Loitering Munitions for France

10/28/2026
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German automotive supplier Schaeffler will assemble a new batch of loitering munitions ordered by France from…

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From Canberra to Tokyo: Undersea Power and the Nuclear Submarine

10/27/2026
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Within a single week in October 2026, two allied capitals made overlapping arguments about how a…

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Defense Decisions
11/03/2026
By Robbin Laird

From Lead Nation to Contributing Node: If the Report Is Accurate, Europe’s Admirals Are Planning a North Atlantic With Less Royal Navy

If the report is accurate, the most important thing about a quiet meeting of European admirals in Paris this week is not who was in the room but whose ships…

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11/03/2026
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What Ukraine’s Organizational Innovation Teaches the Impact Force

When I Marine Expeditionary Force ran Steel Knight 2025, participants referred to the war in Ukraine again and again. But they did not treat it as a tactical template. The…

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11/06/2026
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2026 AUSA Project Agincourt: Autonomous Warfare Panel

Watch: 2026 AUSA Project Agincourt: Autonomous Warfare Panel (Army Multimedia and Visual Information Division via DVIDS, 1 hour 4 minutes, recorded 14 October 2026, public domain). A full official transcript…

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09/11/2026
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The Age of Urgency: Rear Adm. McCoy on Rebuilding the Navy’s Aviator Pipeline

Originally published in Breaking Defense, September 4, 2026 Rear Adm. Max “Pepper” McCoy, the Chief of Naval Air Training, describes the system he runs as a factory conveyor belt: the…

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Forecasting the Drone Future: Keirin Joyce’s Doctoral Thesis on Technology Readiness

Review by Robbin Laird, Research Fellow, Sir Richard Williams Foudation

Before the Pivot: John Blaxland’s The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard and the Long Road to Today’s Force

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A Bridge Between History and Transformation: Reviewing The United States Marines: A History (Fifth Edition)

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The Safety Valve: Why Local News Matters in an Age of Super-Intelligence

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Fight’s On: A Magic Eight Ball Takes On the SI Doomsayers

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11/03/2026
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Telling the Adversary Just Enough: Ghost Shark and Deterrence by Disclosure

On 19 October, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy revealed three capabilities of the Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle: laying sea mines, launching Altius aerial drones, and carrying underwater supplies.…

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Special Report: The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific

By Robbin Laird

For three decades, “generation” has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label implies that the next step forward is a better machine. The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s 1 October seminar in Canberra, The Requirement for Air Combat Mass

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