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…
Read More »Shadows Over CEE: Hybrid Sabotage and the Creeping Political Drift Away from Ukraine
Mysterious blazes at UAV production plants, improvised explosives at critical power grids, and foiled arson plots:…
Read More »From Industrial Base to Industrial Network: Rethinking European Strategic Autonomy
Robbin Laird’s account of how Ukraine and Asia’s engagement are rewiring European defense industry identifies something…
Read More »Realism in an Age of Uncertainty: Power, Adaptation, and Strategic Freedom of Action
Realism has returned to the center of strategic debate. The war in Ukraine, U.S.-China competition, the…
Read More »The Infrastructure of AI Is a Weapon Now. The Policy Isn’t Ready.
In March 2026, Iranian drones struck Amazon-owned data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a…
Read More »The Informal Empire and Its Hard Edge: Extending the Argument to China’s Military Reach
For the past several years, Western policymakers have comforted themselves with a story: that economic interdependence…
Read More »The V-22 Osprey and the Impact Force: From Assault Transport to Kill Web Enabler
I have just published Building the Impact Force: Marine Corps Transformation in an Age of Chaos.…
Read More »Beyond the Battlefield: War as a Phase, Not an Endpoint
A still-common view of war treats it as a parenthesis: first comes competition among states, then…
Read More »Strategic Military Lessons from Ukraine and Israel
War is evolving from a competition between armed forces into a competition between complex national systems.…
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