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,…
Read More »From Hosting to Co-Invention: The USMC and the Australian Army in Evolution
The contemporary relationship between the United States Marine Corps and the Australian Army has quietly outgrown…
Read More »Guam’s Missing Link: Why the Logistics Gap Undercuts the Webs of Security, Deterrence, and Kill
Guam’s transformation from a fixed forward base into a resilient network node rests on three interlocking…
Read More »The First Amendment Worked. Did the Acquisition System?
There is a very direct and profound leadership lesson taught at the United States Naval Academy:…
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