Key Developments
From Training System to Combat Ecosystem: The Paradigm Shift in Air Combat Pilot Training
At the recent Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar, Alexander Robinson offered one of the clearest statements…
Read More »The Force Redesigner: How the CH-53K Enables Distributed Operations and the Impact Force
There is a phrase that has stayed with me since a conversation at HMHT-302 during a…
Read More »Australia’s Defence Crossroads: From Platforms to Architecture in a Contested Indo-Pacific
As I return from my latest visit to Australia, I am thinking back on my time…
Read More »Australia and Indonesia: Co-Inventing Amphibious Power in the Archipelago
The November 2024 amphibious landing at Banongan Beach in East Java marked more than the largest…
Read More »The MARTAC T38’s 192-Hour Mission: Proof of Concept for the Mesh Fleet
When Maritime Tactical Systems (MARTAC) announced that its T38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vessel had completed…
Read More »Always Ready, Persistently Under-Resourced: The USCG Arctic Story
The United States Coast Guard has spent the better part of the twenty-first century being asked…
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Book Review
04/28/2026
The fifth edition of The United States Marines: A History by Edwin Howard Simmons and Lt. Col. Charles Patrick Neimeyer stands as the definitive single-volume chronicle of America's amphibious force-in-readiness. Spanning from the Continental Marines of 1775 through modern conflicts, this Naval...
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