Ukraine’s Sub Sea Baby Strike: A Strategic Inflection Point in Black Sea Naval Warfare
Ukraine’s December 2025 strike on a Russian Kilo-class submarine in Novorossiysk harbor represents far more than…
Read More »The Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter Program: The Challenge of Overcoming Persistent Structural Challenges
The Government Accountability Office’s latest report on the Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter program reads like…
Read More »Always Ready: Persistently Under-Resourced: The Modern USCG Story
Next year, I am publishing my book on the USCG, appropriately entitled: Always Ready: Persistently Under-Resourced.…
Read More »Steel Knight 2025: An Overview
I have been in Southern California for the past few days talking with Marines involved in…
Read More »Coast Guard Aviation at a Crossroads: New CBO Report Reveals Declining Readiness Amid Historic Investment
The U.S. Coast Guard’s aviation capability faces a critical juncture as new Congressional Budget Office findings…
Read More »The Second Nuclear Age Arrives: How Bracken’s Framework Explains America’s New Strategic Reality
The recent Wall Street Journal article on the emerging nuclear arms race between the United States,…
Read More »The Paradigm Shift for Combat Pilot Training
Military aviation stands at a decisive inflection point. For most of the modern era, airpower assumed…
Read More »Language, Power and Digital Identity
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to rewrite the processes of civilization: which processes and for whom,…
Read More »The F-35’s Defining Role in Israel’s Historic Campaign Against Iran
In June 2025, Israel executed the most ambitious air campaign in its history, Operation Rising Lion,…
Read More »Training for the High-End Fight: The Paradigm Shift for Combat Pilot Training
I am launching a new book focused on the paradigm shift in combat pilot training. The…
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