HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | The Programs That Cemented US Power
Journalist Garrett Graff has authored 10 books, but his newest book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is a book you should read and own.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ESSENTIAL READING | Huawei: A Company Greater than the Part?
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
The Decline of Wisdom and the Rise of AI
Are we ready for a world where a Nelson or Alexander the Great can no longer rise unless societies collapse? Would we benefit, in fact, from that? Or is AI no match for leadership?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The F-47 Shows the US Back in the Game
Washington showed that it cannot slacken off in the air dominance game just now.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
An Unstable Global Defense Marketplace
New threats, new alliances, new technologies: all challenge the US’ “golden age”.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Views on the Unknown Future Defense Industrial Base
How nations shift to new, and flexible, manufacturing techniques, and adapting old industries, will be a key determinant of sovereignty in the coming decades.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
New Chengdu Aircraft Challenges Distant Targets
David Archibald looks at the significance of the new, long-range strike aircraft.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Recalibrating AUKUS (and FiveEyes) in the Second Trump Era?
Incoming Pres. Trump’s main challenge is not how to make the two key strategic alliances merge, but finding leaders in all the four other states who can see the strategic potential of the FiveEyes/AUKUS combine. There may be some blood on the floor as he jostles to get the outcome right.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Restoring Canada’s Credibility Within FiveEyes
Canada is on the verge of emerging from a long nightmare of strategic decline as the present Trudeau Government faces imminent destruction. But how quickly can this country, once with the world’s third-largest navy and a mighty aerospace industry, restore its credibility?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Hogs, Oceans, Liberty, and Victory!
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: Awakening to a Different World
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Nuclear Weapons 2.0: The Twilight World Tour?
Nuclear proliferation, which the West and the USSR attempted to limit, occurred notwithstanding, and this has rendered the original tenets of nuclear deterrence moot, while the evolution of new weapons and countermeasures is far more significant in pushing nuclear weapons toward meaninglessness.