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 ...

Australia’s first public unveiling of the AUKUS Pillar II payloads for Ghost Shark, Speartooth and Bluebottle is the strongest evidence yet for the argument I made in May: the hull gap decade is a ...

When a Lockheed Martin executive takes the stage at an air power seminar, the room expects a pitch for more F-35s, or at least for a new variant of something. Air Commodore (Retd) Phil Gordon AM ...

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

Kongsberg has shown that its Naval Strike Missile (NSM) can be fired from a standard 20-foot shipping container. According to Infodefensa, which reported the test on October 17, 2026, the Norwegian ...

When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered the Ditchley Foundation’s 62nd Annual Lecture on September 16, 2026, he gave the Alliance a phrase that will shape its self-description for some time: ...

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

The Magic Eight Ball is a toy designed to answer yes-or-no questions with fortune-teller-style replies. It looks like an ...

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 ...

I have just arrived in Canberra for the October 1 seminar hosted by the Sir Richard Williams Foundation. So no place better to start than by focusing on one of the themes in my latest book with ...

Europe’s defense industry is being remade by a war that is no longer purely European. What began in February 2022 as a continental crisis has become a genuinely cross-regional industrial event, in ...