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Military Strategy
The Drone Age Demands a New Theory of Military Protection
Military protection has never existed simply to keep soldiers alive or platforms intact. Its enduring purpose has always been to preserve freedom of...

Supply Chain
Creating a Northern Hybrid Zone To Turn Ambition Into Action
Washington and Manila have moved from intent to design, announcing plans for a 4,000-acre (16 square km) economic security zone to anchor allied...

Critical Minerals
Critical Minerals Need Reliable Financing Frameworks
In critical minerals policy, one of the costliest things we can say is ‘we signed a memorandum of understanding’. Public announcements can signal...

Critical Minerals
U.S. Calls Key Countries Together on Critical Minerals
Governments need to move beyond faith in market self-correction and legacy institutions and instead build disciplined arrangements in small groups of...

U.S. Marine Corps
The U.S. Marine Corps Leans on Australian Territory
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Critical Minerals
Washington Needs To Ditch Its America-First Approach to Critical Minerals
President Joe Biden participates in a roundtable on securing critical minerals for a future made in America Tuesday, February 22, 2022, in the South...

Critical Infrastructure
Plotting Darwin Harbour's Future Course
Darwin Harbour and the port facilities along its eastern arm have a long history of disregard, disrepair and haphazard investment and control by...

Sea (Maritime, Naval Operations)
Exmouth Base Needed to Plug Naval Gap Between Perth and Darwin
To make sure that northern Australia is ready to support a range of defence contingencies, the region must have socially and economically prosperous...

Maritime Strategy
A Coastguard Academy for Southeast Asian Maritime Security
Over the last decade, maritime security concerns have featured prominently in ASEAN member states’ individual and collective agendas. Issues as...

Uncategorized
Lessons for Australia in U.S. Biodefence Strategy
In Stephen King’s apocalyptic horror novel The stand, the accidental release of a biological weapon, a super-flu nicknamed Captain Trips, caused a...

In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
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

Navy Civilianizes Six Former Flag Billets, Reduces Six to Captains
By Mongilio, USNI N.
Raytheon's $8B Contract for Strategic Comms Terminal Modernization
By M+A El
America’s Maritime Moment Will Not Wait
By CDR Salamander
Armor Up?
By Marine Corps Compass Points
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
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