Key Developments

The “Air Littoral” Does Not Solve the Low-Altitude Problem

08/07/2026
By David A. Deptula, Lt Gen USAF (Ret.)

Robbin Laird’s recent article, “The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too,” attempts to move the…

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The Grid is the Kill Web: Rethinking Power Wars as a Mesh Force Problem

08/06/2026
By Robbin Laird

Morgan Bazilian and Jahara Matisek have done the defense community a service with their CIMSEC piece,…

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The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too: What the Kill Web Fleet Can Teach the Airpower Debate

08/05/2026
By Robbin Laird

Two pieces published within eight days of each other in late July 2026 stake out what…

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From Hosting to Co-Invention: The USMC and the Australian Army in Evolution

08/04/2026
By Robbin Laird

The contemporary relationship between the United States Marine Corps and the Australian Army has quietly outgrown…

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Strategic Military Lessons from Ukraine and Israel

08/03/2026
By Pascal Preziosa and Robbin Laird

War is evolving from a competition between armed forces into a competition between complex national systems.…

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The M-346 at Farnborough 2026: The Block 20 Story Continues

07/31/2026
By Robbin Laird

When I wrote Training for the High-End Fight, I gave Leonardo’s Block 20 program for 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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