Malacca as a Case Study: Alliance Documents, Strategic Games, and the Architecture of Deterrence
The Malacca Strait is a narrow waterway with outsized strategic significance, where alliance commitments, strategic gaming,…
Read More »IBCS at the Crossroads: From Flight Tests to the Fight That Matters
The Integrated Battle Command System did not spring from a blank sheet. It emerged from a…
Read More »Two Models, One Logic: What the CH-53K Training Revolution Tells Us About the Navy’s Next Trainer
In the fall of 2010, I was at Marine Corps Air Station New River talking to…
Read More »From Platform Mastery to Ecosystem Management: The Unfinished Revolution in Military Transformation
There is a persistent conceit in Washington defense circles — that military transformation is something you…
Read More »The Force Redesigner: How the CH-53K Enables Distributed Operations and the Impact Force
There is a phrase that has stayed with me since a conversation at HMHT-302 during a…
Read More »Australia’s Defence Crossroads: From Platforms to Architecture in a Contested Indo-Pacific
As I return from my latest visit to Australia, I am thinking back on my time…
Read More »The MARTAC T38’s 192-Hour Mission: Proof of Concept for the Mesh Fleet
When Maritime Tactical Systems (MARTAC) announced that its T38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vessel had completed…
Read More »From Reactive to Proactive: Predictive Maintenance and the CH-53K’s Operational Edge
There is a question that tends to get lost in discussions of new military aircraft: Not…
Read More »All Military Technology is Relative Against a Reactive Enemy
A conceptual “white paper” think piece. The meaning of U.S. “kill web” warfighting capabilities is captured…
Read More »Conversational AI as a Cognitive Accelerator
Article Summary: AI is already embedded in military systems, but conversational AI built on large language…
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