By Robert Czulda For Central and Eastern European states (particularly Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland) as well as Northern Europe (notably Finland), the primary and enduring threat remains. Russia, which, despite strategic setbacks, shows no intention of halting the war in Ukraine. The outbreak of conflict against Iran also affects…
By Robbin Laird For most of its history, U.S. Central Command has been an Army officer’s domain. Since its founding in 1983, CENTCOM has been led predominantly by Army and Marine generals whose careers were shaped by the grinding land campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. The combatant command that oversaw…
By Pierre Tran Paris – The executive chairman of Dassault Aviation, Eric Trappier, called March 4 on Airbus to accept management leadership of the French industrial partner on a new European fighter jet, otherwise the project would die from lack of corporate support. “If Airbus maintains the probability of not…
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 together constitute a sustained analytical argument about the transformation of the international system. Individually, each book addresses a…
By Robbin Laird A recent article by Stephen Kuper entitled, “Japan accelerates dual-use technology cooperation and development: Opportunities for allied nation industrial cooperation,” provided a thoughtful opportunity to revisst my early argument shaped in a discussion with David Beaumont on my concept of embedded logistics. This article draws on both…
By Robbin Laird Over the course of 2026, I am completing a series of interconnected books that examine what I believe represents a fundamental inflection point in modern history. These works are not independent scholarly exercises but rather pieces of a larger analytical puzzle, each contributing to our understanding…
By Robbin Laird Among the many charges levelled at Donald Trump, that he is impulsive, inconsistent, transactional, hostile to alliances, one rarely examined proposition cuts in a different direction: that across both of his terms in office, Trump has pursued a strikingly coherent strategic objective. That objective is the containment…
By: Stephen Kuper Just as the Cold War was characterised by a period of “Competitive Coexistence” between the United States and the Soviet Union, our new multipolar world embodies this in a significantly more complex way, presenting significant challenges for Australia and its “Fight Tonight” force. Human history has been…
