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How to Build and Operate a 500-Ship U.S. Navy

03/16/2023
By Lt. Cmdr. U.H. (Jack) Rowley, USN (Ret.)

In an address at the 2022 AFCEA/US Naval Institute “West” conference, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral…

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Will Asia Pick up the Pieces in Afghanistan?

03/15/2023
By James Durso

The U.S. and NATO  hastily evacuated Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, ending the two-decade, $2 trillion-dollar…

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Indian Defense Modernization: Surge in Artillery Capability for the Army as Key Element

03/14/2023
By Debalina Ghoshal

The growing tensions over the Line of Actual Control (LAC)  vis a vis China calls for…

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Will the Syrian Earthquake Usher Damascus into the Middle East Mainstream?

03/10/2023
By James Durso

Bashar and Asma al-Assad were as good as it was going to get in Syria. The…

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Mobilising National Logistics in Support of Military Operations

03/06/2023
By David Beaumont

‘The role of industrial preparedness in military strategy is anomalous. Prospectively, the role is almost always…

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Working Allied Defense Supply Stockpiles: The U.S. and Danish Agreement, February 2023

03/06/2023
By Department of Defense

In a February 8, 2023 press release, DoD announced the signing of a new agreement with…

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America First and Critical Minerals: The Need for an Allied Approach

03/05/2023
By John Coyne

Over the past few years, Covid-19, climate change and Chinese economic coercion have catalysed rapid global…

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You Can Serve Your Country: But the Department of Veterans AffairsWants to Know: What Gender do You Think You Are?

03/03/2023
By Ed Timperlake

By what right does Secretary Dennis Mc Donough of the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) have…

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The Irish Opportunity: Ireland Rethinks its Role in Security and Defense in Europe

03/02/2023
By Robbin Laird

Ireland in my lifetime has been more likely a defense problem than part of a defense…

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Peter Fleming’s Brazilian Adventure

02/26/2023
By Kenneth Maxwell

In 1951, during my first year at Queen’s College, Taunton, then a boarding school for boys…

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Defense Decisions
08/07/2026
By Robbin Laird

Drop the Littoral, Keep the Argument: What Deptula’s Sharpest Objection Gets Right

David Deptula’s response to my piece on the “air littoral” made one argument I did not adequately answer, and it is the one worth sitting with rather than relitigating. It…

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07/01/2026
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Tracking the MISR Effort: From Pilot Program to Kill Web Enabler

The coverage of Maritime ISR (MISR) Weapons and Tactics Instructors across Second Line of Defense and Defense.info spans five years and represents one of the most sustained independent analytical efforts…

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Building the Impact Force  contends that the United States Marine Corps is in the midst of a decisive shift from a traditional, crisis‑response organization toward an “impact force” designed to…

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From Kill Chain to Kill Web: The MISR WTI and the Navy’s Quiet Revolution

When the history of the Navy’s transition from kill chain to kill web is written, the creation of the Maritime ISR Weapons and Tactics Instructor — the MISR WTI —…

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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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The Age of Chaos: Kill Web Warfare, Authoritarian Coercion, and the Democratic Advantage

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Two Judges Riding Circuit in Rappahannock County Virginia Just Make a Huge Public Mistake

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Microsoft’s Investment Positions Australia as Regional Digital Node: If Policy Keeps Pace

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The “Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage” seminar produced a remarkably coherent and candid body of analysis across all its presentations. Rather than a checklist of capabilities, what emerged was a serious examination of genuine advantages — geographic, human, technical, alliance-based, and industrial —

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