From the Nacelle to the Kill Web: What CMV-22B Readiness Really Buys the Fleet
Capt. Christopher “Chet” Misner’s account of the Nacelle Improvement program in the Summer 2026 issue of…
Read More »Street to Fleet: How CNATRA Is Working Naval Aviation Training
The Navy’s training establishment is often treated as background noise to the “real” story of naval…
Read More »Southern Spear and the Coast Guard’s Persistence Problem: Why the Case for a Coast Guard-Led Homeland Seas Just Caught Up With History
Bruce Stubbs published a commentary at the Center for International Maritime Security this month arguing something…
Read More »The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too: What the Kill Web Fleet Can Teach the Airpower Debate
Two pieces published within eight days of each other in late July 2026 stake out what…
Read More »Building the Impact Force: Marine Corps Transformation in an Age of Chaos
My latest book is entitled Building the Impact Force: Marine Corps Transformation in an Age of…
Read More »Closing the Seams: Canada and the Netherlands in the MV-75’s Trans-Atlantic Architecture
The GIUK gap defines the North Atlantic’s central chokepoint. The Nordic land corridor defines the Alliance’s…
Read More »MV 75 Tiltrotor Airpower for the Nordic Arctic and Land Corridor
NATO’s northern flank has been transformed in just a few years. The accession of Finland and…
Read More »From Chokepoint to Corridor: MV-75 Cheyenne in the Defense of the GIUK Gap
The Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap is not a legacy Cold War concept kept alive by strategic nostalgia.…
Read More »The Tiltrotor Enterprise as Strategic Architecture: A Body of Work
There is a particular risk in defense analysis when the field is treated as a series…
Read More »Czech Vipers in Poland: A New Layer in NATO’s Counter-Drone Fight
The Czech Republic’s decision to send a pair of AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to Poland is…
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