Key Developments

From Industrial Base to Industrial Network: Rethinking European Strategic Autonomy

09/07/2026
By Pasquale Preziosa

Robbin Laird’s account of how Ukraine and Asia’s engagement are rewiring European defense industry identifies something…

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Undersea Power, Not Submarine Politics: What John Blaxland Gets Right About Australia’s Deepest Strategic Problem

09/03/2026
By Robbin Laird

Five years into AUKUS, the Australian debate remains stubbornly fixated on a single question: will the…

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The Drone Wars and the Impact Force: What Michael O’Hanlon’s Ukraine-Iran Lessons Mean for Force Design

08/31/2026
By Robbin Laird

A recent Defense & Aerospace Report Land Warfare podcast, in which Vago Muradian sat down with…

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Two Wars, One Industrial Base: How Ukraine and Asia’s Engagement Are Rewiring European Defense

08/30/2026
By Robbin Laird

Europe’s defense industry is being remade by a war that is no longer purely European. What…

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The Narrow Sea: Why a Taiwan Invasion Fleet’s Real Vulnerability Is Logistics, Not the Landing

08/28/2026
By Robbin Laird

Every discussion of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) assault on Taiwan eventually arrives at the beach,…

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Realism in an Age of Uncertainty: Power, Adaptation, and Strategic Freedom of Action

08/26/2026
By Pascal Preziosa

Realism has returned to the center of strategic debate. The war in Ukraine, U.S.-China competition, the…

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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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