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Opaque Ammunition Contracts Damage Ukraine’s Defense Effort

10/20/2024
By James Durso

President Zelensky’s ambassador to the United States caused a scandal with Republican lawmakers during his recent…

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Framing the Way Ahead for Logistical Support for a Sustainable Distributed Force

10/17/2024
By Robbin Laird

I focused in the first piece in this series on logistics and sustainment challenges for the…

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Putting Maritime Autonomous Systems into the Hands of Warfighters: The Latest Version of Combined Arms Operations

10/15/2024
By Robbin Laird

I have just returned from Australia and have finished the report for the latest Sir Richard…

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Deterrence and the Biden-Harris Administration: The Challenges of Moving Ahead

10/15/2024
By Brian Morra

In the waning months of the Biden-Harris administration, America is failing to deter its adversaries both from…

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Anduril and Australia’s the Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise (GWEO)

10/14/2024
By Colin Clark

The Australian arm of American defense startup Anduril is hoping Canberra’s push for sovereign defense production…

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Contemporary Global Change Series 1: Kenneth Maxwell on Global Trends

10/13/2024
By Robbin Laird

We have launched a series which provides the insights of leading strategic thinkers on global change…

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Defense XXIV: A Podcast on Military Innovation in a Multi-Polar World

10/10/2024
By Robbin Laird

We are publishing our latest yearbook of selected articles from our websites in January 2025. That…

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Operation Pineapple Express: Coping with the Blitzkrieg Withdrawal from Afghanistan

10/10/2024
By Robbin Laird

President Biden put in motion the blitzkrieg withdrawal from Afghanistan. This is what I wrote last…

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A Podcast on the Sir Richard Williams Seminar 26 September 2024

10/08/2024
By Robbin Laird

Here is a podcast generated by Google’s NotebookLM system which provides an AI summary of the…

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Autonomous Systems for the Ready Force: It is About the Con-ops

10/08/2024
By Robbin Laird

Throughout the day of the Sir Richard Williams seminar on 26 September 2024, speakers highlighted the…

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04/16/2026
By Robbin Laird

Fight Tonight, Prepare for Tomorrow: The ADF and the Age of Autonomous Warfare

“The comfortable certainties of the post-Cold War era are dissolving before our eyes.” That observation, made by ACM (Retired) Mark Binskin at the Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s September 2025 seminar,…

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04/11/2026
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Always Ready, Persistently Under-Resourced: The U.S. Coast Guard in the 21st Century

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04/11/2026
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An Overview to 18th Century Globalization

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Robotics and Ship Repairs: A Way Ahead for the U.S. Navy Fleet and their Maintenance

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

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The strategic landscape facing Australia has fundamentally shifted. For the first time since World War II, the Australian Defence Force is genuinely preparing to defend the homeland rather than simply contributing to distant coalitions. This stark reality was laid bare in a recent presentation

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