Seeing Through the Storm: How Ed Timperlake’s Greenland Argument Anticipated the New Agreement
On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill…
Read More »I Was Curious”: A Chemist, a Mussel, and the Navy’s Next Repair Problem
The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series at the U.S. Naval Academy is an annual scientific lecture series…
Read More »Rivets or welds? Today’s defense industrial base must relearn the hard-earned lessons of speed over quality
In November of 1943, the Liberty Ship SS John P. Gaines broke in two and sank,…
Read More »The Drone Wars and the Impact Force: What Michael O’Hanlon’s Ukraine-Iran Lessons Mean for Force Design
A recent Defense & Aerospace Report Land Warfare podcast, in which Vago Muradian sat down with…
Read More »Two Wars, One Industrial Base: How Ukraine and Asia’s Engagement Are Rewiring European Defense
Europe’s defense industry is being remade by a war that is no longer purely European. What…
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 »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 »Matilda 1: A Stern Landing Vessel as a Test Case in USMC–Australian Army Co-Invention
In an earlier article I have argued that the U.S. Marine Corps and the Australian Army…
Read More »Weak Signals, Hard Decisions: What the Columbia Mishap Teaches the Sea Services About Risk
The Navy and Marine Corps do not lack risk management (RM) processes. Risk, issue and opportunity…
Read More »The Grid is the Kill Web: Rethinking Power Wars as a Mesh Force Problem
Morgan Bazilian and Jahara Matisek have done the defense community a service with their CIMSEC piece,…
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