Key Developments
Realism in an Age of Uncertainty: Power, Adaptation, and Strategic Freedom of Action
Realism has returned to the center of strategic debate. The war in Ukraine, U.S.-China competition, the…
Read More »The Infrastructure of AI Is a Weapon Now. The Policy Isn’t Ready.
In March 2026, Iranian drones struck Amazon-owned data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a…
Read More »The Informal Empire and Its Hard Edge: Extending the Argument to China’s Military Reach
For the past several years, Western policymakers have comforted themselves with a story: that economic interdependence…
Read More »AI Is a National Security Problem And So Is the Trust It Runs On
Most alarms about artificial intelligence and national security come from think tanks, academics, or opinion writers…
Read More »Wolves Without a Navy: How Ukraine’s USV Wolfpacks Are Strangling Russia’s Crimean Lifeline
On the night of July 6 into the early hours of July 7, 2026, Ukrainian drone…
Read More »Street to Fleet: How CNATRA Is Working Naval Aviation Training
The Navy’s training establishment is often treated as background noise to the “real” story of naval…
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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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