Key Developments
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,…
Read More »Weak Signals, Hard Decisions: What the Columbia Mishap Teaches the Sea Services About Risk
The Navy and Marine Corps do not lack risk management (RM) processes. Risk, issue and opportunity…
Read More »The “Air Littoral” Does Not Solve the Low-Altitude Problem
Robbin Laird’s recent article, “The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too,” attempts to move the…
Read More »The Grid is the Kill Web: Rethinking Power Wars as a Mesh Force Problem
Morgan Bazilian and Jahara Matisek have done the defense community a service with their CIMSEC piece,…
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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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