Realism in an Age of Uncertainty: Power, Adaptation, and Strategic Freedom of Action
Realism has returned to the center of strategic debate. The war in Ukraine, U.S.-China competition, the…
Read More »The Infrastructure of AI Is a Weapon Now. The Policy Isn’t Ready.
In March 2026, Iranian drones struck Amazon-owned data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a…
Read More »The Informal Empire and Its Hard Edge: Extending the Argument to China’s Military Reach
For the past several years, Western policymakers have comforted themselves with a story: that economic interdependence…
Read More »AI Is a National Security Problem And So Is the Trust It Runs On
Most alarms about artificial intelligence and national security come from think tanks, academics, or opinion writers…
Read More »Wolves Without a Navy: How Ukraine’s USV Wolfpacks Are Strangling Russia’s Crimean Lifeline
On the night of July 6 into the early hours of July 7, 2026, Ukrainian drone…
Read More »Street to Fleet: How CNATRA Is Working Naval Aviation Training
The Navy’s training establishment is often treated as background noise to the “real” story of naval…
Read More »Beyond the Pandemic of the Mind: What It Actually Looks Like to Use AI Well
As an undergraduate, I spent two years studying symbolic logic. My mother asked me, reasonably, what…
Read More »Southern Spear and the Coast Guard’s Persistence Problem: Why the Case for a Coast Guard-Led Homeland Seas Just Caught Up With History
Bruce Stubbs published a commentary at the Center for International Maritime Security this month arguing something…
Read More »Attacking the Drydock Problem: Robotics and the Compression of Repair Time
There is a phrase that keeps surfacing in conversations with senior Navy leaders and industry executives…
Read More »O Império Informal: Duas Potências Médias, Um Desafio
Nos últimos anos, os decisores políticos ocidentais têm-se consolado com uma narrativa: que a interdependência económica…
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