21+ hour, 34+ min ago  (916+ words) There is a phrase that has stayed with me since a conversation at HMHT-302 during a visit to New River in April 2026. An officer, responding to a question about whether the CH-53 K King Stallion's digital architecture was aligned with…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (408+ words) The U. S. Navy is at an inflection point. Two curves are moving in the wrong direction: the U. S. Navy's growing worldwide commitments and the number of commissioned Navy ships (280 compared to China's 400). This has caused national and naval leaders to put forth…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (623+ words) Retired U. S. Air Force Brigadier General Matthew Isler has written a serious and well-grounded assessment of where integrated air and missile defense stands today and where it must go. Published in War on the Rocks on May 14, 2026, his piece, "The New…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (507+ words) For much of the post-Cold War era, Australian defence debates have revolved around platforms. Frigates versus submarines, 4. 5-generation fighters versus stealth, tanks versus Army-in-the-North. The implicit assumption was that if Canberra chose the right large platforms, at sufficient cost and…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (200+ words) Trustworthy AI" was the research focus of Dr. Jeannette Wing's presentation at the United States Naval Academy's 2022 Michelson Lecture. Dr. Wing serves as Executive Vice President for Research at" The recent local and devolved elections point less to a settled…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (844+ words) Trustworthy AI" was the research focus of Dr. Jeannette Wing's presentation at the United States Naval Academy's 2022 Michelson Lecture. Dr. Wing serves as Executive Vice President for Research at Columbia University and formerly was Corporate Vice President of Research at…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (211+ words) For recent podcasts on defence connect, see the following: In the Obama Administration there was a distinct turn to highlight the non-kinetic global engagement of U. S. military forces. A USN recruiting slogan captures that focus well." "A Global Force" The debate…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (537+ words) This is not a story about symbolic reassurance or modest interoperability gains. It is about two neighbours with historically complicated ties choosing to place complex amphibious operations at the centre of a reordered bilateral partnership. Exercise Keris Woomera 2024 (KW24) is the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (531+ words) 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 defense press treated it as a milestone in USV endurance. That framing is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (735+ words) The United States Coast Guard has spent the better part of the twenty-first century being asked to do more with less. That is not a new observation. It is a structural condition. I have been tracking this organization since the…...