MASU and the Mesh Fleet: Three Operational Vignettes for Australia’s Kill Web Future
For more than a decade, Ed Timperlake and I have developed and applied the kill web…
Read More »Airpower and Australian Defence: Making the Case for Sovereign, Allied-Enabled Capability
In a wide-ranging conversation ahead of the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar in Canberra on 23…
Read More »From Saigon to the Pentagon: Hung Cao’s Journey and the Transformation of Pacific Defense
Editor’s Note: We are re-posting our interview from November 2025 in light of recent events. 14…
Read More »Conversational AI and Intent Based Command: Training at the New Frontier of Command
This aarticle introduces a three part series by the co-founder of Second Line of Defense and…
Read More »The Dual Guardians: How the U.S. Coast Guard is Navigating the 21st Century
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States Coast Guard was engaged in what…
Read More »Two Judges Riding Circuit in Rappahannock County Virginia Just Make a Huge Public Mistake
“Judges Blast Rappahannock Courthouse Plan as Unsafe, Outdated” was the headline in the Rappahannock News on…
Read More »The Osprey Nacelle Upgrade Dynamic: Understanding Its Broader Impact on Force Sustainability
When you spend enough time with maintainers in the fleet rather than briefing officers in the…
Read More »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…
Read More »A Kill Web Admiral Sets a Blockade
The Commander of CENTCOM is Admiral Brad Cooper, USNA Class of 1989. A Kill Web is…
Read More »Epochal Change and the Transformation of Questions
We tend to measure historical change by its products: new weapons systems, new doctrines, new institutions,…
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