From Truck to Toolkit: AUKUS Payloads and the Hull Gap Decade
Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle…
Read More »Undersea Power, Not Submarine Politics: What John Blaxland Gets Right About Australia’s Deepest Strategic Problem
Five years into AUKUS, the Australian debate remains stubbornly fixated on a single question: will the…
Read More »The Narrow Sea: Why a Taiwan Invasion Fleet’s Real Vulnerability Is Logistics, Not the Landing
Every discussion of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) assault on Taiwan eventually arrives at the beach,…
Read More »Wolves Without a Navy: How Ukraine’s USV Wolfpacks Are Strangling Russia’s Crimean Lifeline
On the night of July 6 into the early hours of July 7, 2026, Ukrainian drone…
Read More »Attacking the Drydock Problem: Robotics and the Compression of Repair Time
There is a phrase that keeps surfacing in conversations with senior Navy leaders and industry executives…
Read More »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…
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