Key Developments
Guam’s Missing Link: Why the Logistics Gap Undercuts the Webs of Security, Deterrence, and Kill
Guam’s transformation from a fixed forward base into a resilient network node rests on three interlocking…
Read More »The First Amendment Worked. Did the Acquisition System?
There is a very direct and profound leadership lesson taught at the United States Naval Academy:…
Read More »The Necessary Resilience: How to Defend Western Society in the Age of Permanent Conflict
The distinction between peace and war has gradually blurred. States can be attacked without a single…
Read More »Maverick Against Hypersonic Systems
This isn’t about the actor Tom Cruise, though speed matters here too. Project Maverick is an…
Read More »Building the Impact Force: Marine Corps Transformation in an Age of Chaos
My latest book is entitled Building the Impact Force: Marine Corps Transformation in an Age of…
Read More »Japan’s Mogami-Class Frigate and Innovation in Ship Building
Japan’s Mogami-class frigate represents one of the more significant experiments in contemporary naval warfare: a major…
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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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