Key Developments
Conversational AI as a Cognitive Accelerator
Article Summary: AI is already embedded in military systems, but conversational AI built on large language…
Read More »Admiral Paparo’s April 2026 Posture Statement: A Kill Web Practitioner Reads the Record
Admiral Samuel Paparo’s April 2026 posture statement to Congress is not simply a budget document or…
Read More »MASU and the Mesh Fleet: Three Operational Vignettes for Australia’s Kill Web Future
For more than a decade, Ed Timperlake and I have developed and applied the kill web…
Read More »From Saigon to the Pentagon: Hung Cao’s Journey and the Transformation of Pacific Defense
Editor’s Note: We are re-posting our interview from November 2025 in light of recent events. 14…
Read More »Conversational AI and Intent Based Command: Training at the New Frontier of Command
This aarticle introduces a three part series by the co-founder of Second Line of Defense and…
Read More »The Dual Guardians: How the U.S. Coast Guard is Navigating the 21st Century
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States Coast Guard was engaged in what…
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Book Review
04/28/2026
The fifth edition of The United States Marines: A History by Edwin Howard Simmons and Lt. Col. Charles Patrick Neimeyer stands as the definitive single-volume chronicle of America's amphibious force-in-readiness. Spanning from the Continental Marines of 1775 through modern conflicts, this Naval...
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