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 They have been replaced by a…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…
Read More »F-35 Quarterbacks and CCAs: The Behavioral Path to Sixth-Generation Airpower
The concept of fifth-generation air warfare was clearly articulated by former Secretary of the Air Force…
Read More »Learning from Colonel Spaid: The Osprey’s Indispensable Role Across Two Decades
Colonel Wes Spaid’s journey with the V-22 Osprey spans nearly two decades, from flying the first…
Read More »Marine C2’s Shift from Enduring Bases to Expeditionary Hubs: A Perspective from Steel Knight 2025
The Marine Corps has long understood that the character of warfare is shaped not merely by…
Read More »A Decade of Strategic Analysis: My Australian Defence Research (2014-2025)
This month, my latest book on Australian defence has been published. Fight Tonight Force: Combat Readiness…
Read More »FIGHT TONIGHT FORCE: Combat Readiness at the Speed of Relevance
Robbin F. Laird’s Fight Tonight Force explores the urgent necessity for democratic nations, particularly Australia, to transition from…
Read More »The Fight Is Here: 5 Realities of 21st-Century Conflict
The comfortable certainties of the post-Cold War era are dissolving before our eyes. The long-held assumption…
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