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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle is the strongest evidence yet for the argument I made in May: the hull gap decade is a ...

When a Lockheed Martin executive takes the stage at an air power seminar, the room expects a pitch for more F-35s, or at least for a new variant of something. Air Commodore (Retd) Phil Gordon AM ...

This is a revised version of the book first published in 2023 and includes updates from 2024 and 2025, including with regard to Israel operations with the aircraft. It is a book about the coming of ...

There is a moment early in my conversation with Stephen Kuper on Defence Connect’s Contested Ground podcast when he asks me a ...

Kongsberg has shown that its Naval Strike Missile (NSM) can be fired from a standard 20-foot shipping container. According to Infodefensa, which reported the test on October 17, 2026, the Norwegian ...

When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, he gave the Alliance a phrase that will shape its self-description for some time: ...