Key Developments
The Drone Wars and the Impact Force: What Michael O’Hanlon’s Ukraine-Iran Lessons Mean for Force Design
A recent Defense & Aerospace Report Land Warfare podcast, in which Vago Muradian sat down with…
Read More »The Narrow Sea: Why a Taiwan Invasion Fleet’s Real Vulnerability Is Logistics, Not the Landing
Every discussion of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) assault on Taiwan eventually arrives at the beach,…
Read More »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…
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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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