Key Developments
When the Chessboard Changes: Game Theory and Adaptive Strategy in Modern Conflict
Morgenstern and subsequently developed by John Nash, among others, is one of the most powerful tools…
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Every air force in the world has the same problem hiding in its hangars: a fleet…
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Mysterious blazes at UAV production plants, improvised explosives at critical power grids, and foiled arson plots:…
Read More »I Was Curious”: A Chemist, a Mussel, and the Navy’s Next Repair Problem
The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series at the U.S. Naval Academy is an annual scientific lecture series…
Read More »Rivets or welds? Today’s defense industrial base must relearn the hard-earned lessons of speed over quality
In November of 1943, the Liberty Ship SS John P. Gaines broke in two and sank,…
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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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