Key Developments
Southern Spear and the Coast Guard’s Persistence Problem: Why the Case for a Coast Guard-Led Homeland Seas Just Caught Up With History
Bruce Stubbs published a commentary at the Center for International Maritime Security this month arguing something…
Read More »Attacking the Drydock Problem: Robotics and the Compression of Repair Time
There is a phrase that keeps surfacing in conversations with senior Navy leaders and industry executives…
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 »Matilda 1: A Stern Landing Vessel as a Test Case in USMC–Australian Army Co-Invention
In an earlier article I have argued that the U.S. Marine Corps and the Australian Army…
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 »Fighting with the Fleet You Have and Building Availability into the Autonomous Systems Age
In 2017, I sat down with then Chief of the Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett,…
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Book Review
07/26/2026
John Blaxland's The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (Cambridge University Press, 2014) is, on its surface, a work of institutional history. It covers 35 years from Gough Whitlam's election in 1972 to John Howard's defeat in 2007 and catalogues...
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