The Evolving Character of Warfare and Its Implications for Australia
The comfortable certainties of the post-Cold War era are dissolving, giving way to a new and…
Read More »Venezuela, Deterrence And Why India Was Right
London, January 4. The United States’ military action against Venezuela and the forcible removal of President…
Read More »From Victory Forgotten to Lessons Unlearned: Desert Storm, Strategic Drift, and the Combat Pilot Training Revolution
Lieutenant General David Deptula’s Forbes piece marking the 35th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm examines how…
Read More »The H-1 Helicopter’s Digital Revolution: HMLA-267 Leads Marine Corps into Distributed Aviation Operations
The Marine Corps has long understood that the character of warfare is shaped not merely by…
Read More »How to Characterize the U.S. Intervention in Venezuela: Bold Global Geopolitical Move or Neo-Imperialism?
The Trump Administration’s intervention in Venezuela is certainly dramatic and controversial. But what I find fascinating…
Read More »Australian Defence Transformation: A 2025 Overview
The title of my new book, Fight Tonight Force: Combat Readiness at the Speed of Relevance,…
Read More »Meeting the Australian Defence Challenge: Combat Readiness at the Speed of Relevance
No one knows what tomorrow will bring and there are conflicting views on how benign or…
Read More »Steel Knight 2025: Turning Distributed Operations into Warfighting Practice
At the recent Steel Knight 2025 exercise conducted by 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at MCAS Miramar,…
Read More »How 3rd MAW is Translating Strategic Concepts into Combat-Ready Capabilities
The Marine Corps has long understood that the character of warfare is shaped not merely by…
Read More »Negating China’s High-Tech Cyber Threat
The United States is making progress in understanding the national security threat posed by China’s high-tech…
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