Peter Layton
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Air Warfare
Making Air Forces Resilient, Scalable and Large
Today’s air forces are designed around highly sophisticated, technically impressive combat aircraft and this is their Achillies heel. Such aircraft...

Air Warfare
Heterogeneous Air Power Is Here
Current conflicts have overturned how air power is applied. Air forces should no longer be built solely around crewed aircraft.

Air Warfare
The Arrival of Heterogeneous Airpower
The U. S.

Indo-Pacific/Asia
China's Grey-Zone Provocations: Time To Reciprocate
Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4 is hit by Chinese coast guard water canon blast causing injuries to multiple crew members as they tried to...

Middle East
Israel's Gaza War Grinds On
The Western world’s preeminent strategist, Carl von Clausewitz, famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means. For him wars...

Military Strategy
Two Strategies Spiralling Downwards in Gaza
The Gaza War is now well into its second month with fighting still intense . The Hamas-run Health ministry in Gaza claims that more than 11,000 people...

China
As the World Looks Elsewhere, China Stirs Trouble in the South China Sea
The Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times is already forecasting “more serious collisions. ” China is again making mischief in the South...

Information Warfare
Attacking Hostile Battle Networks
Today digital technology pervades the world’s militaries. Their lifeblood is now digitised information circulating through their force structures and...

Cyber Warfare
Chinese Grey Zone Spy Balloons Over the American Heartland
A high altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont. , on Wednesday, Feb.

Russo-Ukraine War
General Valery Gerasimov's Great Ukrainian Disaster
How did we end up here? We all thought Putin's modernized Russian army was ten feet tall and led by a General who, in military thinking circles, is a...

Iran’s Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Threat
By Ben Ollerenshaw • RealClearDefense
Europe’s Rearmament Paradox
By Daniel Darling • RealClearDefense
Pentagon’s Pursuit of Faster Acquisition
By Ben Harris • RealClearDefense
The Army’s AI Cyber Defenders Need a Proven Stand-Down Order
By Gleb Tsipursky • RealClearDefense
After the Silence
By Chase Skylar DeMayo • RealClearDefense

The First Surface Drone-v-Drone Fight
By CDR Salamander, CDR Salamander
Air Force Strengthens F-22 Raptor Combat Readiness in the Pacific
By Global Defense
After the Silence
By Chase Skylar DeMayo • RealClearDefense
Underwater Arms Race Puts U.S. Naval Supremacy at Risk
By Tom O'Connor, Newsweek
New Facilities To Pump Out Upgraded F/A-18E/F Super Hornets
By Trevithick, WarZone
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