Key Developments
How the Adversary Reads the Impact Force
In a recent Defense News opinion piece, Lyle Goldstein surveys Chinese-language assessments of Marine Corps posture…
Read More »From Canberra to Tokyo: Undersea Power and the Nuclear Submarine
Within a single week in October 2026, two allied capitals made overlapping arguments about how a…
Read More »Confident Enough to Disagree: What NATO 3.0 Can Learn from How the Cold War Ended
Near the end of his Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General…
Read More »MUMS-14 and the Impact Force: Closing the Gap Steel Knight Exposed
On June 16, 2026, under a covered pavilion at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the…
Read More »Insourcing versus Integration: Toyota, BYD, and Two Roads to the Global Market
In a recent Defense.info piece, “BYD, Batteries, and the Architecture of Dependence,” I looked at BYD…
Read More »From Truck to Toolkit: AUKUS Payloads and the Hull Gap Decade
Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle…
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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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