Near the end of his Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said something that deserves more attention than his spending figures or his account of ...

I have thought about that analogy more or less continuously since I first heard it, because it explains most of what went wrong, and some of what went right, in how the West came to understand ...

There is a moment early in my conversation with Stephen Kuper on Defence Connect’s Contested Ground podcast when he asks me a ...

Within a single week in October 2026, two allied capitals made overlapping arguments about how a maritime democracy should build military power in the Western Pacific. The two discussions were ...

On Friday evening, October 16, 2026, in beautiful Rappahannock County, the Foothills Forum held its annual meeting. The ...

That is the argument of my concluding essay: the next generation of airpower is an enterprise rather than a platform, and the quality that matters most is regeneration. By that I mean the capacity to ...

The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s seminar on The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific, held in Canberra on October 1, 2026, drew many speakers. Three of the practitioner ...

Germany is examining whether it can field ground-based lasers able to act against satellites. According to Lars Hoffmann’s report in hartpunkt on October 14, 2026, the German Space Agency at DLR has ...

The word “generation” has been doing a lot of quiet work in airpower for three decades. We speak of fourth-generation and fifth-generation aircraft, and now of sixth-generation fighters, as if the ...

On June 16, 2026, under a covered pavilion at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, the Marine Corps activated Marine Unmanned Maintenance Squadron 14 — MUMS-14 — as a subordinate command of Marine ...

In a recent Defense.info piece, “BYD, Batteries, and the Architecture of Dependence,” I looked at BYD as the clearest automotive expression of what Kenneth Maxwell and I have called the “Architecture ...

This is a revised version of the book first published in 2023 and includes updates from 2024 and 2025, including with regard to Israel operations with the aircraft. It is a book about the coming of ...