Air and Missile Defense, Precision Strike, and the Indo-Pacific: Lessons from Ukraine and the Gulf
At the Sir Richard Williams seminar held on 23 April 2o26 focused on the fight tonight…
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There is a particular kind of clarity that comes from a man who spent four decades…
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The fifth edition of The United States Marines: A History by Edwin Howard Simmons and Lt. Col. Charles…
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Article Summary: AI is already embedded in military systems, but conversational AI built on large language…
Read More »Admiral Paparo’s April 2026 Posture Statement: A Kill Web Practitioner Reads the Record
Admiral Samuel Paparo’s April 2026 posture statement to Congress is not simply a budget document or…
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As the U.S. Navy examines options for what mix of crewed and uncrewed systems will populate…
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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…
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Editor’s Note: We are re-posting our interview from November 2025 in light of recent events. 14…
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This article introduces a three part series by the co-founder of Second Line of Defense and…
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