Key Developments

Seeing Through the Storm: How Ed Timperlake’s Greenland Argument Anticipated the New Agreement

09/19/2026
By Robbin Laird

On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill…

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When the Chessboard Changes: Game Theory and Adaptive Strategy in Modern Conflict

09/17/2026
By Pascal Preziosa

Morgenstern and subsequently developed by John Nash, among others, is one of the most powerful tools…

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From the Nacelle to the Kill Web: What CMV-22B Readiness Really Buys the Fleet

09/16/2026
By Robbin Laird

Capt. Christopher “Chet” Misner’s account of the Nacelle Improvement program in the Summer 2026 issue of…

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Obsidian Shield: How a Modular Pod Is Turning Legacy Aircraft into Kill Web Participants

09/15/2026
By Robbin Laird

Every air force in the world has the same problem hiding in its hangars: a fleet…

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Shadows Over CEE: Hybrid Sabotage and the Creeping Political Drift Away from Ukraine

09/14/2026
By Robert Czulda

Mysterious blazes at UAV production plants, improvised explosives at critical power grids, and foiled arson plots:…

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I Was Curious”: A Chemist, a Mussel, and the Navy’s Next Repair Problem

09/13/2026
By Ed Timperlake

The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series at the U.S. Naval Academy is an annual scientific lecture series…

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Special Reports
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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