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From Leipzig to Abqaiq: Why Drone Defense Is Now a Whole-of-State Problem
U.S. gaps in drone defense, highlighted by retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, raise questions about the…
Read More »Time Is Not an Independent Variable: Why the Navy Must Hold the UJTS Award Date
Since Boeing withdrew the T-7A Red Hawk from the US Navy’s Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS)…
Read More »How the Adversary Reads the Impact Force
In a recent Defense News opinion piece, Lyle Goldstein surveys Chinese-language assessments of Marine Corps posture…
Read More »From Canberra to Tokyo: Undersea Power and the Nuclear Submarine
Within a single week in October 2026, two allied capitals made overlapping arguments about how a…
Read More »Confident Enough to Disagree: What NATO 3.0 Can Learn from How the Cold War Ended
Near the end of his Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General…
Read More »MUMS-14 and the Impact Force: Closing the Gap Steel Knight Exposed
On June 16, 2026, under a covered pavilion at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the…
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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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