The King Stallion and UMSC Operational Innovation
In July 2025, Col Kate Fleeger, Program Manager, H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopters Program at NAVAIR was…
Read More »The Digital Silk Road Meets the Cocaine Highway: China’s Infrastructure and Brazil’s Criminal Networks
While Brazilian criminal organizations have established themselves as dominant players in the transatlantic cocaine trade, a…
Read More »The Establishment’s Trump Problem: When Results Don’t Match Expectations
Peggy Noonan’s recent Wall Street Journal piece on Trump’s Ukraine diplomacy offers a revealing window into…
Read More »The United States Prepares to Deploy Hypersonic Weapons: What are Key Questions Shaping a Way Ahead?
The United States had a significant lead on hypersonic weapons when I worked for Secretary Wynne…
Read More »Putin’s Shadow Boxing with NATO: How Russia Created the Very Threats It Claims to Combat
In February 2022, as Russian forces massed on Ukraine’s borders, Vladimir Putin delivered a rambling televised…
Read More »The Missing Half: How Russian Choices Shaped the Path to War in Ukraine
The current war in Ukraine has generated intense debate about its origins, with many Western analysts…
Read More »Russian Geopolitical Challenges: The Economic Relationship with the Baltic States
The economic transformation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania over the past decade represents one of Europe’s…
Read More »From Regional War to Global Contest: A Perspective on the War in Ukraine from the Summer of 2025
What began in February 2022 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally transformed into something far…
Read More »Brazil’s Drug Gangs: From São Paulo Streets to Global Cocaine Empire
Brazil has emerged as one of the world’s most critical cocaine transshipment hubs, fundamentally altering the…
Read More »Hypersonic Weapons in Limbo: A Winding Road from Bush to Biden
The path to operational hypersonic weapons in the United States has been neither swift nor straight.…
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