The most useful argument at the Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s seminar on air combat mass and depth in Canberra on 1 ...

Countless books about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor show that hard intelligence was there in bits and pieces but was ...

Aviation history is at a crossroads. Today, as military aviation transitions from platform-centric warfare to the dynamic, high-stakes battlespace of the 21st century, modern combat pilots face ...

When Maritime Tactical Systems (MARTAC) announced that its T38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vessel had completed an eight-day, fully autonomous mission 400 nautical miles off the California coast, the ...

This book explores the emergence of maritime autonomous systems (MAS) within the context of a broader shift in military strategy and technological development. It argues that MAS are not merely ...

In November of 1943, the Liberty Ship SS John P. Gaines broke in two and sank, resulting in the loss of 10 of her crew. The board of investigation found that the grade of steel used in welded ...

The article is clear-eyed about the risks. Conversational AI creates automation bias (the tendency to follow machine recommendations even when wrong), strategic dependency on digital architectures ...

The Williams Foundation seminars have long served as a crucible for serious thinking about Australian defence. Year after year, the discussions move from strategic abstraction toward operational ...

Dateline, Canberra, Austrlia I have just arrived in Canberra for the October 1 seminar hosted by the Sir Richard Williams ...

For the past several years, Western policymakers have comforted themselves with a story: that economic interdependence with China would eventually civilize the relationship, that trade would do the ...

The U.S. Marine Corps has spent more than 75 years honing the ability to assault a heavily defended beach, beginning with the famed island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific during World War II. In that ...

Australia’s north holds immense strategic significance for Australia’s security, economic prosperity and regional influence. Amid the global impact of conflict in Europe and rising tensions in the ...