Will Ukraine’s War Effort Be Threatened by Kamikaze Drone Engine Shortage?
The United States has just crossed a strategic threshold. In the strike against Iran, U.S. Central Command confirmed…
Read More »Marine Corps Aviation Transformation: A Comprehensive Analysis of the 2025-2026 Aviation Plans
The United States Marine Corps stands at a critical inflection point in its aviation modernization journey.…
Read More »Lessons Learned at Steel Knight 25: Operating Within and as a Kill Web
I spent two weeks in December with the 3rd Marine Wing working with 1MEF during the…
Read More »Beyond Munich’s Maritime Blind Spot: The Autonomous Systems Revolution Europe Still Doesn’t Understand
Cyril Widdershoven has identified a critical gap in European strategic thinking following the Munich Security Conference…
Read More »The HASC V-22 Osprey Hearing: Building a Tri-Service Enterprise for Sustained Excellence
On February 10, 2026, the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the V-22 program, notably examining…
Read More »Guam and the Marianas: Engineering Resilience Through Security Webs, Deterrence Webs, and Kill Webs
Guam’s transformation from vulnerable forward base to distributed network hub represents a shift in defense thinking…
Read More »The Osprey Nacelle Revolution: How Operators and Industry Solved a Crisis That Washington Never Saw Coming
When you spend enough time with maintainers in the fleet rather than briefing officers in the…
Read More »A Decade of Strategic Analysis: My Australian Defence Research (2014-2025)
This month, my latest book on Australian defence has been published. Fight Tonight Force: Combat Readiness…
Read More »The H-1 Helicopter’s Digital Revolution: HMLA-267 Leads Marine Corps into Distributed Aviation Operations
The Marine Corps has long understood that the character of warfare is shaped not merely by…
Read More »Steel Knight 2025: Turning Distributed Operations into Warfighting Practice
At the recent Steel Knight 2025 exercise conducted by 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at MCAS Miramar,…
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