Gerald Mako
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Military Strategy
July 5, 2026
China's Military AI Logistics: Peacetime Gains, Wartime Vulnerabilities
For decades, Chinese military planners have viewed logistics as the decisive factor in any campaign against Taiwan and across the broader...
Gerald Mako • The Strategist (ASPI)
Air Warfare
April 9, 2026
Airpower Can't Occupy a Hill: The Enduring Limits of Victory From the Air
‘ For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power ”, declared Winston Churchill in 1949. Nearly eighty years later,...
Gerald Mako • RealClearDefense
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