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 ...

Preview: Sir Richard Williams Foundation Seminar, 1 October 2026, National Gallery of Australia On 1 October, the Sir Richard ...

By Gleb Tsipursky Defense organizations already understand that authority should track mission, role, and risk. An ...

By Robbin Laird I published an overview piece, “Street to Fleet: How CNATRA Is Working Naval Aviation Training,“ ahead of ...

By Robbin Laird 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 ...

By Kenneth Maxwell Piddington is a small village and civil parish in Oxfordshire. Its population is 358. The British ...

Our newly published book, The Australian, Brazilian, and Chinese Dynamic: An Inquiry into the Evolving Global Order, argues that Australia and Brazil are authentic Global South actors, ...

The CH-53K King Stallion is an optimized, heavy-lift, sea-based, long range solution for the Marine Air Ground Task Force. 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing increases readiness, lethality, and forward presence ...

The Australian Department of Defence’s response to the Royal Australian Navy surface fleet review, Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant Fleet, published in February, announced the RAN would field six ...

When the history of the Navy’s transition from kill chain to kill web is written, the creation of the Maritime ISR Weapons and Tactics Instructor — the MISR WTI — will be recognized as one of the ...

The post-Cold War period shaped a Marine Corps optimized for the wrong war. Built around a “crisis management” paradigm — one that assumed sanctuary, permissive logistics, and a knowable adversary, ...