I arrived at the Pentagon on the morning of September 11th, 2001, expecting a routine meeting on post-Soviet nuclear security issues. Within hours, the world had changed. So had the trajectory of American defense analysis. For those of us who felt the building rock that morning, September 11th is not…
The emergence of Ukraine’s Flamingo cruise missile is about more than a new long‑range strike weapon; it is a signal of how the missile industrial base itself is being re‑engineered under wartime pressure. What makes Flamingo strategically important is not simply its range or payload, but the way a drone‑native…
By Robbin Laird The world’s navies are crossing a strategic fault line in which traditional assumptions about capital ships, carrier battle groups, and exquisite platforms no longer hold. The emerging era of uncrewed, networked, and AI-enabled systems is creating a new maritime order in which the force that adapts fastest,…
By Kenneth Maxwell When I wrote in April 2012 of ‘a tale of two competitions,’ I was describing a Brazil suspended between options, still debating the merits of the Dassault Rafale, the Boeing F-18 Super Hornet, and the Saab Gripen NG while simultaneously wrestling with the politics of Embraer’s Super…
Japan’s role in the hypersonic enterprise is no longer peripheral or symbolic; it is becoming one of the central test cases for how offensive hypersonic strike, hypersonic defense, and alliance politics can be woven together into a coherent Indo‑Pacific deterrence posture. The way Tokyo is moving—from “missile‑defense client” to co‑producer…
By Pasquale Preziosa The deployment of additional U.S. troops to the Gulf signals not only a possible military escalation. Above all, it reveals a deeper transformation: contemporary warfare no longer follows the logic of short campaigns and decisive victories, but rather that of duration, permanent competition, and the political-narrative construction…
My previous article, “From Post-Cold War Settlement to Contested Global Order”, brought together the arguments of two books, my recently published books on the global war in Ukraine along with my forthcoming book with Kenneth Maxwel examining the Australian, Brazilian, and Chinese dynamic within the broader framework of Global China…
By Pierre Tran Paris – MBDA, a European missile maker, will double investment to €5 billion ($5.7 billion) in 2026 to 2030 to boost production, and expects to increase output some 40 percent this year, chief executive Eric Béranger told March 26 a press conference on 2025 financial results. That…
