China’s Trade War Isn’t With Washington. It’s With Everyone
Most of the commentary on the current tariff battles still frames them as a bilateral contest,…
Read More »Disengagement Is Not a Strategy: Rethinking Australia’s Alliance Debate
As I prepare to return to Australia for the October 1 Sir Richard Williams Seminar, an…
Read More »Mastering the Kill Web: How MISR Became the Navy’s Quiet Revolution
Take the prestige and institutional weight of the Navy’s Top Gun schoolhouse, then strip away the…
Read More »Base Is a Noun, Hub Is a Verb: Rethinking Guam’s Strategic Function
For most of the postwar Pacific, “base” was the only word that mattered. A base was…
Read More »Theoretical AI Exists. Applied AI Is Now in Play: A TASCFORM Test case and the Argument for Transparent Models
In several published articles I have argued that all things AI are best understood through an…
Read More »Negotiating a Greenland Deal: The Role of the Allies
It is early days, and anyone writing about this agreement should say so plainly. The signed…
Read More »Seeing Through the Storm: How Ed Timperlake’s Greenland Argument Anticipated the New Agreement
On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill…
Read More »When the Chessboard Changes: Game Theory and Adaptive Strategy in Modern Conflict
Morgenstern and subsequently developed by John Nash, among others, is one of the most powerful tools…
Read More »From the Nacelle to the Kill Web: What CMV-22B Readiness Really Buys the Fleet
Capt. Christopher “Chet” Misner’s account of the Nacelle Improvement program in the Summer 2026 issue of…
Read More »Obsidian Shield: How a Modular Pod Is Turning Legacy Aircraft into Kill Web Participants
Every air force in the world has the same problem hiding in its hangars: a fleet…
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