Malcolm Davis
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Russo-Ukraine War
Learning From Ukraine: Semi-Autonomy Can Deliver Combat Mass
Generating operational mass in the Indo-Pacific requires new approaches to projecting, sustaining and employing military power across vast distances...

Sea (Maritime, Naval Operations)
AUKUS Pillar Two Lunges for an Operational Capability – Underwater
With the ‘signature project’ on payloads for uncrewed undersea vehicles (UUVs) announced by Australia, Britain and the United States on 30 May at the...

Military Strategy
War at the Speed of Light: The Emerging Role of Directed-Energy Weapons
For decades, notions of laser weapons have been the stuff of science fiction. Now they are becoming military reality, as directed-energy weapons,...

Air Warfare
China May Soon Reach Far Into the Pacific With Many Uncrewed Bombers
China is clearly thinking ambitiously about long-range power projection with autonomous aircraft. Pictures have emerged of large new Chinese uncrewed...

U.S. Navy
Abandoning AUKUS Pillar One Would Gravely Damage the U.S. Alliance
An article in The Strategist by Mike Keating and Jon Stanford on 22 August calling for abandoning the nuclear-submarine element of AUKUS is...

Space Warfare
The Future of the Combined Space Operations Initiative
As space becomes more contested, Australia should play a key role with its partners in the Combined Space Operations (CSpO) initiative to safeguard...

U.S. Space Force
The Starship Revolution in Space
SpaceX took a big step towards full reusability of space launchers on 13 October, a step towards a transformation in accessing space far more cheaply,...

North Korea
Will South Korea Become the Next Nuclear-Weapon State?
It has long been a concern that North Korea’s nuclear posturing would goad or frighten its neighbours into developing their own nuclear capability....

Russo-Ukraine War
Will Putin Go Nuclear To Avoid Defeat in Ukraine?
It’s been more than 75 years since nuclear bombs were detonated over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, bringing World War...

Space Warfare
The Ramifications of Russia's Reckless Anti-Satellite Test
The Russian military’s test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite weapon against a defunct satellite has created a huge cloud of more than 1,500 trackable...

After the Midterms, the Right Strategy Against Iran
By Lance Gordon • RealClearDefense
The Color Revolution Came Home
By Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense
When Access Becomes the Fight
By Richard Byno • RealClearDefense
What the 2026 Midterm Results Mean for U.S. Strategic Competition with Rivals
By Dean Chen • RealClearDefense
Measurable by Design: Project Meridian
By Alex Willard • RealClearDefense

New USAF Force Design Bets on Technology
By Stephen Losey, Air & Space Forces
DoD Pushes $450M in Loans To Bolster U.S. Space Companies
By Hitchens, BrDefense
The U.S. Navy Needs a New Battlecruiser. Will It Get One?
By Sadler & Ouellette, NatInt
U.S. Army Rehearses Rapid HIMARS Rocket Launcher Deployment
By Global Defense N.
Coding Commander's Intent into Unmanned Systems
By Thomas Baumstark, Proceedings
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