Key Developments

Insourcing versus Integration: Toyota, BYD, and Two Roads to the Global Market

10/22/2026
By Robbin Laird

In a recent Defense.info piece, “BYD, Batteries, and the Architecture of Dependence,” I looked at BYD…

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From Truck to Toolkit: AUKUS Payloads and the Hull Gap Decade

10/20/2026
By Robbin Laird

Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle…

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NATO 3.0 and the Unfinished Pillar: What Rutte Did Not Say at Ditchley

10/18/2026
By Robbin Laird

When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture on September 16,…

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Building Depth: How Indo-Pacific Allies Are Hardening for a Long Contest

10/15/2026
By Robbin Laird

The headlines in the Indo-Pacific tend to focus on the visible: carrier movements, missile tests, coast…

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NATO 3.0 and the Long Road to a European Pillar

10/11/2026
By Robbin Laird

On September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture…

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Beyond Arms Sales: Building the Taiwan Mesh Fleet Where the Fight Will Be

10/09/2026
By Robbin Laird

Major Joseph Potter’s new essay for the Center for International Maritime Security, “Arming Taiwan: America First…

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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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