NATO 3.0 and the Long Road to a European Pillar
On September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture…
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The fighting concept known as “blind ’em, burn ’em, blast ’em” was a practical assault technique…
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On September 11, 2026, at the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław…
Read More »Influence Without Occupation: A Future U.S. Strategy for Iraq
On 30 September 2026, Ali Al-Zaidi, Iraq’s prime minister and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, marked…
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I have been coming to Australia since 2014 to write the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminars.…
Read More »Regulate the Use, Not the Idea: An AI White Paper, Round Two
In my first AI White Paper, Theoretical AI Exists, Applied AI Is Now in Play: A…
Read More »China’s Trade War Isn’t With Washington. It’s With Everyone
Most of the commentary on the current tariff battles still frames them as a bilateral contest,…
Read More »Base Is a Noun, Hub Is a Verb: Rethinking Guam’s Strategic Function
For most of the postwar Pacific, “base” was the only word that mattered. A base was…
Read More »When the Chessboard Changes: Game Theory and Adaptive Strategy in Modern Conflict
Morgenstern and subsequently developed by John Nash, among others, is one of the most powerful tools…
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Mysterious blazes at UAV production plants, improvised explosives at critical power grids, and foiled arson plots:…
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