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Austral to Add to the U.S. Submarine Industrial Base

01/19/2023
By Justin Katz

Austal USA, the Mobile, Ala.-based shipyard best known for its aluminum-hulled littoral combat ships, has begun producing two…

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Task Force 59 and Unmanned Maritime Assets

01/16/2023
By Defense.info Media Team

Before we move to the Digital Horizon exercise and the WSJ coverage of the event, we…

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The Next Frontiers for Defense in 2023

01/16/2023
By Matt Medley

Technology is at the forefront of the defense sector moving forward into 2023. New technologies such…

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Will a Trillion Dollars Per Year Buy America a Better Defense?

01/14/2023
By James Durso

The Pentagon had a very merry Christmas but all the American taxpayers got was a lump…

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Leopard Tanks to Ukraine?

01/09/2023
By Robert Czulda

Media reports about potential deliveries of the Leopard main battle tanks (MBTs) to Ukraine are undoubtedly…

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From the First Duke of Sussex to the Current Duke of Sussex: An Historical Perspective

01/07/2023
By Kenneth Maxwell

On Friday 19th February Buckingham Palace announced that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, would not…

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Bridging Worlds: Andrei Markovits’s Memoir

12/28/2022
By Robbin Laird

I met Andy while we both graduate students in the political science department at Columbia University.…

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Crafting an Architecture to Negotiate an End to the Ukraine War: Taking Control of Our Destiny

12/28/2022
By Robbin Laird

Recently, I spoke with my colleague Brian Morra about the war in Ukraine, as part of…

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Does the U.S. – Uzbekistan Dialogue Reflect America’s Blueprint for Central Asia?

12/27/2022
By James Durso

The United States and Uzbekistan recently concluded the second meeting of their Strategic Partnership Dialogue. As…

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Looking Back: Articles and Studies Published Between 2002 and 2013

12/27/2022
By Robbin Laird

I am writing a book with my friend Kenneth Maxwell entitled “Two Twentieth Century Men in…

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08/07/2026
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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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The Marines Impact Force and Chaos Management

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

Microsoft’s A$25 billion investment in Australian AI and cloud infrastructure positions the country as a significant node in the Indo-Pacific’s trusted digital architecture. That creates a strategic opportunity – one…

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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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