Fighting with the Fleet You Have and Building Availability into the Autonomous Systems Age
In 2017, I sat down with then Chief of the Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett,…
Read More »The Hybrid Fleet Concept: Taking a Hard Look at the Way Ahead
I read the critique of the UK’s Hybrid Navy concept when it was published, and I…
Read More »The Hybrid Navy Gamble: Why Britain’s Drone-Heavy Fleet Plan Is Drawing Fire
When the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence unveiled its Defence Investment Plan (DIP) on 30 June…
Read More »Japan’s Mogami-Class Frigate and Innovation in Ship Building
Japan’s Mogami-class frigate represents one of the more significant experiments in contemporary naval warfare: a major…
Read More »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…
Read More »The Dual Guardians: How the U.S. Coast Guard is Navigating the 21st Century
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…
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