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The question I want to address here is not whether the Pentagon has “reformed acquisition.” That phrase has been used for forty years to describe almost anything. The more useful…
Highlight of the Week · Second Line of Defense In Briefs, 8–14 November 2026 This week’s ten In Briefs on Second Line of Defense ranged from Taiwan’s east coast to…
This week’s video takes viewers to Portugal’s Tróia Peninsula for REPMUS 2026, short for Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Unmanned Systems. The Portuguese Navy led the annual exercise…
Originally published in Breaking Defense, September 4, 2026 Rear Adm. Max “Pepper” McCoy, the Chief of Naval Air Training, describes the system he runs as a factory conveyor belt: the…
Review by Robbin Laird, Research Fellow, Sir Richard Williams Foudation
For a generation, allied defense debates have been conducted at the moment of purchase. How many aircraft, which frigate, what sensor, which partner shares the workshare. The platform is the…
By Robbin Laird
For three decades, “generation” has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label implies that the next step forward is a better machine. The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s 1 October seminar in Canberra, The Requirement for Air Combat Mass
