Defense XXIV: A Podcast on Military Innovation in a Multi-Polar World

We are publishing our latest yearbook of selected articles from our websites in January 2025.

That book is entitled: Defense XXIV: Reworking U.S. and Allied Defenses to Deal with the Multi-Polar Authoritarian Challenge.

Defense XXIV explores the evolving global security landscape and the challenges faced by liberal democracies in countering authoritarian powers. The articles highlight the importance of adapting military strategies and capabilities to a new era of multi-polarity, with a focus on distributed operations, autonomous systems, and the need for more effective cooperation between allies.

The articles examine the impact of the war in Ukraine, the rise of China, the Iranian nuclear program, and the challenges of maintaining a strong defense industrial base.

They also provide a detailed look at the USMC’s Force Design 2030 initiative, its focus on expeditionary advanced base operations (EABO), and the integration of unmanned systems into combat operations.

This book reinforces the validity of the old axiom: “The whole is the greater than the sum of its parts.”

This point is reinforced in a podcast which focuses on the book and the challenges highlighted by the book.

The podcast is a Deep Dive product produced through Google’s AI program NotebookLM.

 

The photo which is used on the cover of the book is of the flags of Communist China, North Korea and Russia above dark sky.

Credit Photo:  ID 329431713 © Tomasragina | Dreamstime.com