Key Developments
From Truck to Toolkit: AUKUS Payloads and the Hull Gap Decade
Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle…
Read More »NATO 3.0 and the Unfinished Pillar: What Rutte Did Not Say at Ditchley
When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture on September 16,…
Read More »Building Depth: How Indo-Pacific Allies Are Hardening for a Long Contest
The headlines in the Indo-Pacific tend to focus on the visible: carrier movements, missile tests, coast…
Read More »NATO 3.0 and the Long Road to a European Pillar
On September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture…
Read More »Beyond Arms Sales: Building the Taiwan Mesh Fleet Where the Fight Will Be
Major Joseph Potter’s new essay for the Center for International Maritime Security, “Arming Taiwan: America First…
Read More »Blind, Burn and Blast: Lessons for Today’s Department of War
The fighting concept known as “blind ’em, burn ’em, blast ’em” was a practical assault technique…
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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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