Beyond Arms Sales: Building the Taiwan Mesh Fleet Where the Fight Will Be
Major Joseph Potter’s new essay for the Center for International Maritime Security, “Arming Taiwan: America First…
Read More »Mastering Chaos: How the Marine Corps Is Reinventing Itself for an Age Without Sanctuaries
For two decades, the United States Marine Corps built its identity around a particular kind of…
Read More »Mastering the Kill Web: How MISR Became the Navy’s Quiet Revolution
Take the prestige and institutional weight of the Navy’s Top Gun schoolhouse, then strip away the…
Read More »Theoretical AI Exists. Applied AI Is Now in Play: A TASCFORM Test case and the Argument for Transparent Models
In several published articles I have argued that all things AI are best understood through an…
Read More »Negotiating a Greenland Deal: The Role of the Allies
It is early days, and anyone writing about this agreement should say so plainly. The signed…
Read More »Seeing Through the Storm: How Ed Timperlake’s Greenland Argument Anticipated the New Agreement
On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill…
Read More »I Was Curious”: A Chemist, a Mussel, and the Navy’s Next Repair Problem
The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series at the U.S. Naval Academy is an annual scientific lecture series…
Read More »Rivets or welds? Today’s defense industrial base must relearn the hard-earned lessons of speed over quality
In November of 1943, the Liberty Ship SS John P. Gaines broke in two and sank,…
Read More »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…
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