Key Developments
China’s Trade War Isn’t With Washington. It’s With Everyone
Most of the commentary on the current tariff battles still frames them as a bilateral contest,…
Read More »Mastering the Kill Web: How MISR Became the Navy’s Quiet Revolution
Take the prestige and institutional weight of the Navy’s Top Gun schoolhouse, then strip away the…
Read More »Base Is a Noun, Hub Is a Verb: Rethinking Guam’s Strategic Function
For most of the postwar Pacific, “base” was the only word that mattered. A base was…
Read More »Theoretical AI Exists. Applied AI Is Now in Play: A TASCFORM Test case and the Argument for Transparent Models
In several published articles I have argued that all things AI are best understood through an…
Read More »Negotiating a Greenland Deal: The Role of the Allies
It is early days, and anyone writing about this agreement should say so plainly. The signed…
Read More »Seeing Through the Storm: How Ed Timperlake’s Greenland Argument Anticipated the New Agreement
On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill…
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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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