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Please Do Not Shoot at the Thermonuclear Weapons

06/28/2024
By Ed Timperlake

In the 1990s, I had the chance as U..S Staff Secretary to the political arm of…

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Australian Defence Force Embraces Long-range Fires

06/23/2024
By Gregor Ferguson

It’s a fact: in any conflict the fighter with the longer reach has a definite advantage.…

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Is Australia Ready for Conflict in an Age of Empires?

06/19/2024
By Lesley Seebeck

Briefly: no. Australian strategy and policy, most recently articulated in the National Defence Strategy (NDS), is solidly…

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US Navy and Dealing with the Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea

06/19/2024
By Justin Katz

Directly citing the ongoing engagements between the US Navy and Houthi rebels in the Red Sea,…

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Mastery of the Air: Personal Reflections on 35 years of Watching Tiltrotors Take Flight

06/18/2024
By Edward C. Smith, PhD

My engineering journey into vertical flight started as a graduate student at the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft…

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Poland Confronts Illegal Migration: Hybrid War and How to Protect Their Borders?

06/11/2024
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In the past two years, Poland has started to struggle with a problem that is entirely…

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President Biden’s Missed Strategic Opportunity: The 80th Anniversary of D-Day

06/10/2024
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In the early 1990s, I worked on a study of the new Slavic states, namely Belarus…

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The Vietnam War and What Historic Victory Looks Like

06/09/2024
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“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any…

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Veteran Suicide and the Consequences of New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan’s Political Behavior

06/09/2024
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Many, many reports have captured the tragedy of suicide by America’s veterans. No country can ever…

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USS John P. Murtha Commemorates the 82nd Anniversary of the Battle of Midway

06/08/2024
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Sailors assigned to amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) commemorate the 82nd…

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10/12/2026
By Robbin Laird

Taiwan’s Coast Guard Puts Its Unmanned Mesh on Parade

National Day parades are usually about display. This year, Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration used the October 10 parade in Taipei to show something more consequential: the early shape of an…

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Before the Pivot: John Blaxland’s The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard and the Long Road to Today’s Force

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A Bridge Between History and Transformation: Reviewing The United States Marines: A History (Fifth Edition)

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Deterring Whom? Michael Pezzullo and Australia’s Missing National Defence Strategy

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Rory Medcalf’s presentation to the Williams Foundation seminar on air combat mass and depth described a population that senses danger but cannot say what it is afraid of. The National Security College survey he drew on found widespread unease about Australia’s strategic circumstances. That

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