Key Developments

Base Is a Noun, Hub Is a Verb: Rethinking Guam’s Strategic Function

09/23/2026
By Robbin Laird

For most of the postwar Pacific, “base” was the only word that mattered. A base was…

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Theoretical AI Exists. Applied AI Is Now in Play: A TASCFORM Test case and the Argument for Transparent Models

09/22/2026
By Ed Timperlake

In several published articles I have argued that all things AI are best understood through an…

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Negotiating a Greenland Deal: The Role of the Allies

09/20/2026
By Robbin Laird

It is early days, and anyone writing about this agreement should say so plainly. The signed…

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Seeing Through the Storm: How Ed Timperlake’s Greenland Argument Anticipated the New Agreement

09/19/2026
By Robbin Laird

On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill…

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When the Chessboard Changes: Game Theory and Adaptive Strategy in Modern Conflict

09/17/2026
By Pascal Preziosa

Morgenstern and subsequently developed by John Nash, among others, is one of the most powerful tools…

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From the Nacelle to the Kill Web: What CMV-22B Readiness Really Buys the Fleet

09/16/2026
By Robbin Laird

Capt. Christopher “Chet” Misner’s account of the Nacelle Improvement program in the Summer 2026 issue of…

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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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