MASU and the Mesh Fleet: Three Operational Vignettes for Australia’s Kill Web Future
For more than a decade, Ed Timperlake and I have developed and applied the kill web…
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States Coast Guard was engaged in what…
Read More »Beyond Battleships: Building a Maritime Force for 21st Century Conflict
The Wall Street Journal’s recent editorial on President Trump’s naval expansion plans reveals a fundamental disconnect…
Read More »How AI-Empowered Kill Webs Enhance Carrier Operations
Since I carrier-qualified on USS Lexington a generation ago, a familiar narrative has gained momentum: US…
Read More »Ukraine’s Sub Sea Baby Strike: A Strategic Inflection Point in Black Sea Naval Warfare
Ukraine’s December 2025 strike on a Russian Kilo-class submarine in Novorossiysk harbor represents far more than…
Read More »The Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter Program: The Challenge of Overcoming Persistent Structural Challenges
The Government Accountability Office’s latest report on the Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter program reads like…
Read More »Secretary of War Hegseth’s Maritime Domain Awareness Proposal for the South China Sea
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth concluded his Indo-Pacific tour in early November 2025 with a key emphasis:…
Read More »Making Manned Maritime Assets More Lethal, Survivable and Capable: The Impact of Maritime Autonomous System Mesh Fleets
The modern naval battlespace has evolved into a domain of unprecedented complexity, where capital ships face…
Read More »Motherships: The PRC Enters the Conversation
The evolution of naval warfare is entering a transformative era, one where autonomous systems and drone…
Read More »Singapore’s Multi-Role Combat Vessels: Motherships for a New Era of Naval Warfare
On October 21, 2025, Singapore reached a milestone in its naval modernization when ST Engineering launched…
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