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Australia’s Air Power: Ready for Tonight, Preparing for Tomorrow

10/06/2025
By Robbin Laird

The strategic landscape facing Australia has fundamentally shifted. For the first time since World War II,…

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Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training in Modern Combat Aviation: An Overview of LVC Variants

10/05/2025
By Robbin Laird

The evolution of modern warfare has fundamentally transformed the requirements for combat aviation training. As military…

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A Pandemic of the Mind: Safeguarding Reason in the Age of AI

10/04/2025
By Robbin Laird

The debate over artificial intelligence’s impact on society has reached a critical inflection point. While public…

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Unlocking Military Potential: The Immediate Opportunities in Uncrewed Systems

10/03/2025
By Robbin Laird

The recent Williams Foundation seminar on military readiness did not really highlight or provide detailed perspectives…

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Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training: Transforming Combat Aviation for the Fifth-Generation Era

10/02/2025
By Robbin Laird

The landscape of military aviation training is undergoing a fundamental transformation as air forces worldwide grapple…

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Capital Shield: Redefining Crisis Management for the Age of Chaos

10/01/2025
By Robbin Laird

Earlier this year, I published an article entitled: The Anarchy of the Moment. In it I…

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Reimagining Maritime Security: Australia’s Collaborative Approach to Uncrewed Systems

10/01/2025
By Robbin Laird

Australia faces one of the world’s most daunting maritime security challenges. With 37,000 kilometers of coastline…

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Reimagining Maritime Security

09/30/2025
By Robbin Laird

Australia faces an extraordinary maritime security challenge that would overwhelm most nations. With 37,000 kilometers of…

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Rethinking Defence Logistics: The Strategic Imperative for Change

09/30/2025
By Robbin Laird

In an era of shifting geopolitical dynamics and evolving security challenges, traditional approaches to defence logistics…

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Beyond Fight Tonight: Building Resilience and Capacity Across Defence and Industry

09/29/2025
By By Robbin Laird

The ghost of inadequate preparation haunts modern military planning. Mrs. Marion Chapman’s 1949 letter to the…

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06/11/2026
By Giovanni Castellaneta and Pasquale Preziosa

The FCAS Dynamic: An Italian Perspective

The end of the FCAS (Future Combat Air System) program (in terms of no joint fighter)  signifies much more than the failure of an ambitious aeronautical project. It represents a…

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05/12/2026
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Britain After the Local Elections: Reform’s Surge, Nationalist Strength, and a Transitional Party System

The recent local and devolved elections point less to a settled new order than to a transitional phase in British politics, marked by fragmentation, territorial divergence, and growing strain on…

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05/26/2026
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Mastering Chaos: Shaping a Way Ahead for Chaos Management

“Mastering Chaos: Shaping a Way Ahead for Chaos Management” argues that modern leaders must stop treating disruption as a temporary deviation from normality and instead build organizations designed to operate…

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05/12/2026
By Robbin Laird

Contested Ground: New Questions for Australia and the West – Defence Connect Podcast with Robbin Laird

In this week’s interview, I join the team at Defence Connect to discuss how Australia and its partners in the West must rethink deterrence, mobilisation, and the use of national…

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

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The Age of Chaos: Kill Web Warfare, Authoritarian Coercion, and the Democratic Advantage

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Kenneth Maxwell: “This is always my recommendation: never underestimate the Portuguese.”

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Two Judges Riding Circuit in Rappahannock County Virginia Just Make a Huge Public Mistake

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Perspectives on the BRICS Meeting: July 2025

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05/03/2026
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Microsoft’s Investment Positions Australia as Regional Digital Node: If Policy Keeps Pace

Microsoft’s A$25 billion investment in Australian AI and cloud infrastructure positions the country as a significant node in the Indo-Pacific’s trusted digital architecture. That creates a strategic opportunity – one…

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Australia’s Strategic Advantages and How to Exploit Them: Rounding Up the Williams Foundation Seminar Insights

By Robbin Laird

The “Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage” seminar produced a remarkably coherent and candid body of analysis across all its presentations. Rather than a checklist of capabilities, what emerged was a serious examination of genuine advantages — geographic, human, technical, alliance-based, and industrial —

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