Building the Impact Force contends that the United States Marine Corps is in the midst of a decisive shift from a traditional, crisis‑response organization toward an “impact force” designed to generate disproportionate effects for the joint and allied team under conditions of persistent chaos. Rather than asking whether Marines have…

Our new book on Australia, Brazil and China analyzes the shifting global order through a comparative study of Australia and Brazil, two democratic middle powers navigating an increasingly assertive China. We argue that Beijing has constructed an “architecture of dependence” by leveraging trade, infrastructure, and processing monopolies to exert structural…

The video explores the strategic significance of the MV-75 Cheyenne tiltrotor as a transformative force in NATO’s northern defense architecture. The strategic concept underpinning the Arctic build-out is deterrence by detection: persistently finding, tracking, and attributing threats before an adversary can achieve operational surprise. The goal is to make an…

Traditional crisis management, scenario prediction, linear cause‑and‑effect, and efficiency‑optimized structures, is presented as inadequate in such conditions. Instead, the book proposes a shift to chaos management, defined as building adaptive capacity so that organizations can maintain operational coherence and learn faster than both adversaries and the surrounding turbulence. This adaptive…

The book Lessons in Military Transformation: From the RMA to the Drone Wars analyzes military transformation as it is actually experienced by operational forces rather than as it is described in policy documents, tracing the evolution of air and maritime power from the Revolution in Military Affairs era to today’s…

“Always Ready, Persistently Under‑Resourced” examines how the modern U.S. Coast Guard has been transformed since 9/11 into a globally engaged, multi‑mission security force, while remaining chronically misaligned between assigned missions and available resources. The book opens with a first‑person account of 9/11 at the Pentagon, using that experience to frame…

We are not living through a passing disturbance. We are living through the Age of Chaos — a systemic transition from one global order to another whose destination remains fiercely contested. The familiar language of a “rules-based international order” trending toward liberal norms no longer describes the world that democratic…

Lesson from the Drone Wars argues that the “drone wars” mark a wider transformation in warfare, where intelligent mass, mesh networks, and maritime autonomous systems are reshaping force design, deterrence, and operations on land and at sea. It emphasizes that drones do not replace traditional platforms but rewire combined‑arms operations…