The first installment in this series on General Pasquale Preziosa’s foreword to The Unfinished Pillar takes up the argument ...

By Robbin Laird Two stories crossed my desk within weeks of each other in September, both about the U.S. Navy’s anti-submarine warfare enterprise, and neither one mentions the other. But read together ...

By Pasquale Preziosa Understanding what future Russia desires requires a preliminary distinction between the country, its ...

By Robbin Laird At a winging ceremony held for the U.S. Navy’s newest naval aviators, Rear Admiral Max McCoy, the 39th Chief ...

By Robbin Laird It is no accident that I am writing this essay early in the morning in Canberra, Australia. There is no government which uses the term “rules based order” more than the Australian one ...

There are books whose relevance to the moment of publication is a matter of good timing, and there are books whose relevance was built in from the start because the argument they’re built on never ...

When the Valdai Discussion Club opens its twenty-third annual meeting on September 28, it will not be on the Black Sea coast. Invitations initially named Sochi, but organizers told participants in ...

Piddington is a small village and civil parish in Oxfordshire. Its population is 358. The British government proposed to house 1,250 male asylum seekers at a disused Ministry of Defence base nearby.

A photograph taken on July 14, 2026 at Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center in Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, shows a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion helicopter hoisting a recovered F-15 Eagle ...

Defense organizations already understand that authority should track mission, role, and risk. An intelligence analyst, a weapons officer, a contractor, and a system administrator do not receive the ...

On 1 October, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation returns to the question that has quietly reshaped Australian airpower debate over the past two years: not whether the Royal Australian Air Force can ...

U.S. Marines with Fire Support Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, and Marine Air Support Squadron 1, Marine Air Control Group 28, operate a command and control node to integrate with a U.S. Marine ...