U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) conduct mock Forward Arming and Refueling Point briefs as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 2-26, at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, March 18, 2026. WTI is a seven-week training event hosted by MAWTS 1 which emphasizes…
By Robbin Laird The week Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrived in Washington, the news cycle was fixated elsewhere. Missile trails over the Gulf, images from the Iran war, and oil price charts spiking on every financial screen dominated the coverage. Yet in that same window, the Japanese leader walked into…
By Kenneth Maxwell Brazilian foreign policy has long prided itself on a distinct grammar: sovereignty, non‑intervention, dialogue with adversaries, and strategic autonomy rather than bloc alignment. Layered on top of that diplomatic tradition, especially within the Brazilian left, sits a powerful anti‑imperialist political culture that reads world politics primarily through…
U.S. service members assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS1) participate in a Forward Arming and Refueling Point practical application as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 2-26, at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, March 17, 2026. WTI is a seven-week training event hosted by MAWTS-1 which emphasizes…
By Robbin Laird The kill web concept, which Ed Timperlake and I have been developing and writing about for more than a decade, is fundamentally about replacing the linear kill chain with a distributed, interactive combat architecture. Rather than sequencing effects through a fixed hierarchy of platforms, the kill web…
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…
U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS1) install airfield surfacing systems during an Expeditionary Airfield Practical Application as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 2-26, at Auxiliary Airfield II, Yuma, Arizona, March 14, 2026. WTI is a seven-week training event hosted by MAWTS-1 which…
By Robbin Laird No strategy to structurally constrain Iran’s military options is complete without the maritime dimension. For decades, Tehran has treated the Strait of Hormuz, the northern Gulf, the Bab al-Mandab, and the Red Sea as chronic pressure points, instruments of coercion against adversaries and leverage over the global…
