Money builds a precinct. Demand, labour and suppliers build a capability. That is the discipline running through Raelene ...

Defense organizations adopting AI agents need more than assurances that a system will follow instructions. They need evidence ...

Lt. Col. Chip Berke, one of the first Marine pilots to fly the F-22, used to make a point about the iPhone. When Steve Jobs ...

Near the end of his Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said something that deserves more attention than his spending figures or his account of ...

In mid-October 2026, Professor John Blaxland of the Australian National University made the case for AUKUS twice in two days, ...

In a recent Defense News opinion piece, Lyle Goldstein surveys Chinese-language assessments of Marine Corps posture in the Western Pacific and draws a clear conclusion: the United States should “rely ...

There is a moment early in my conversation with Stephen Kuper on Defence Connect’s Contested Ground podcast when he asks me a ...

Overview of Professor John Blaxland’s Interview on Devil’s Advocate (Episode 93) Source: Devil’s Advocate (涵瞰世界), “EP 93 Prof ...

On Friday evening, October 16, 2026, in beautiful Rappahannock County, the Foothills Forum held its annual meeting. The ...

I have thought about that analogy more or less continuously since I first heard it, because it explains most of what went wrong, and some of what went right, in how the West came to understand ...

Within a single week in October 2026, two allied capitals made overlapping arguments about how a maritime democracy should build military power in the Western Pacific. The two discussions were ...

That is the argument of my concluding essay: the next generation of airpower is an enterprise rather than a platform, and the quality that matters most is regeneration. By that I mean the capacity to ...