Key Developments

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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Shadows Over CEE: Hybrid Sabotage and the Creeping Political Drift Away from Ukraine

09/14/2026
By Robert Czulda

Mysterious blazes at UAV production plants, improvised explosives at critical power grids, and foiled arson plots:…

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I Was Curious”: A Chemist, a Mussel, and the Navy’s Next Repair Problem

09/13/2026
By Ed Timperlake

The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series at the U.S. Naval Academy is an annual scientific lecture series…

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Rivets or welds? Today’s defense industrial base must relearn the hard-earned lessons of speed over quality

09/10/2026
By Chris Morton, Vice President, Industries, IFS

In November of 1943, the Liberty Ship SS John P. Gaines broke in two and sank,…

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From Industrial Base to Industrial Network: Rethinking European Strategic Autonomy

09/07/2026
By Pasquale Preziosa

Robbin Laird’s account of how Ukraine and Asia’s engagement are rewiring European defense industry identifies something…

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Undersea Power, Not Submarine Politics: What John Blaxland Gets Right About Australia’s Deepest Strategic Problem

09/03/2026
By Robbin Laird

Five years into AUKUS, the Australian debate remains stubbornly fixated on a single question: will the…

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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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