Money builds a precinct. Demand, labour and suppliers build a capability. That is the discipline running through Raelene ...
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 ...
Defense organizations adopting AI agents need more than assurances that a system will follow instructions. They need evidence ...
On February 10, 2026, the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the V-22 program, notably examining the findings of the 2025 NAVAIR V-22 Comprehensive Review. After Representatives Kelly and ...
In mid-October 2026, Professor John Blaxland of the Australian National University made the case for AUKUS twice in two days, ...
Overview of Professor John Blaxland’s Interview on Devil’s Advocate (Episode 93) Source: Devil’s Advocate (涵瞰世界), “EP 93 Prof ...
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 ...
Since Boeing withdrew the T-7A Red Hawk from the US Navy’s Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) competition in June, critics have asked whether the service should slow down or reboot its search ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar in Canberra on 1 October, The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific, was framed around a question that sounds like a platform ...