James Deitch
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Sea (Maritime, Naval Operations)
Rebuilding Maritime Resilience: Aligning Strategy with Industrial Reality
American sea power has always rested on a paradox: the Navy is the visible instrument of national strength, but its true foundation lies in the...

Information Warfare
Iran Is Winning the Narrative War — and the Window To Stop It Is Closing
The United States and its allies are approaching a moment of profound strategic danger in the Middle East, one that has been building slowly, quietly,...

Iran
The Strategic Price of Waiting: Iran, Time, and the Erosion of Deterrence
The hardest lesson in strategy is that time is not neutral. It is a resource, and someone is always using it.

Air Warfare
America's Blind Spot: Airpower Hubris and the Maritime Reality We Can't Escape
For more than a century, airpower has promised a shortcut to coercion — a way to compel adversaries without committing ground forces, without...

Iran
Iran's Chemical and Biological Options in a U.S. Ground Invasion
The Hidden Catastrophe: Iran’s Chemical and Biological Options in a U. S.

Sea (Maritime, Naval Operations)
Rebuilding the Maritime Prepositioning Force
Rebuilding the Backbone: Why America Must Urgently Revitalize Its Maritime Prepositioning Force For decades, the United States has relied on a unique...

Russo-Ukraine War
When Strategy Outruns Supply
The Logistical Crisis Undermining Russian Power Russian performance in its war against Ukraine has often been framed as a strategic miscalculation,...


Military Strategy
The Achilles' Heel of Force Design 2030
Why Logistics Must Lead the Marine Corps’ Maritime Strategy As the United States shifts its defense posture toward the Asia-Pacific, the Marine Corps...

U.S. Marine Corps
The U.S. Marine Corps, China, and Force Design
Force Design, originally known as Force Design 2030, is a restructuring initiative by the United States Marine Corps aimed at modernizing its combat...

The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense
Radio Frequencies in the Intelligence Ecosystem
By Craig Brower • RealClearDefense
An Acquisitions Process Built for Today's Contested Spectrum Battlefield
By John Malsbury • RealClearDefense
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense

Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZone
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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