Near the end of his Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said something that deserves more attention than his spending figures or his account of ...
The first postwar choice the Pentagon faces in the Gulf is not which bases to repair. It is whether to restore the old footprint at all. A senior defense official, speaking at a Defense Writers Group ...
The word “generation” has been doing a lot of quiet work in airpower for three decades. We speak of fourth-generation and fifth-generation aircraft, and now of sixth-generation fighters, as if the ...
Germany is examining whether it can field ground-based lasers able to act against satellites. According to Lars Hoffmann’s report in hartpunkt on October 14, 2026, the German Space Agency at DLR has ...
On June 16, 2026, under a covered pavilion at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the Marine Corps activated Marine Unmanned Maintenance Squadron 14 — MUMS-14 — as a subordinate command of Marine ...
In a recent Defense.info piece, “BYD, Batteries, and the Architecture of Dependence,” I looked at BYD as the clearest automotive expression of what Kenneth Maxwell and I have called the “Architecture ...
The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s seminar on The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific, held in Canberra on October 1, 2026, drew many speakers. Three of the practitioner ...