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Attacking the Drydock Problem: Robotics and the Compression of Repair Time
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (368+ words) The three diagnostic questions worth asking of any robotic repair program are the same ones that apply to the drydock backlog generally. Where the answer is “not yet,” the bottleneck is not the robot. It is an industrial base still…...
The V-22 Osprey and the Impact Force: From Assault Transport to Kill Web Enabler
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (679+ words) Within that construct, the MV-22B Osprey emerges not merely as a capable assault transport, but as a primary mobility and sustainment engine without which the entire distributed architecture of an impact force cannot function. The world has moved on. Under this…...
Matilda 1: A Stern Landing Vessel as a Test Case in USMC???Australian Army Co-Invention
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (794+ words) In an earlier article I have argued that the U.S. Marine Corps and the Australian Army are engaged in a process of co-invention: two allied land and expeditionary forces, confronting the same Indo-Pacific strategic problem, arriving independently at compatible answers, and…...
Beyond the Battlefield: War as a Phase, Not an Endpoint
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (1538+ words) A still-common view of war treats it as a parenthesis: first comes competition among states, then armed conflict, and once hostilities cease, a return to politics and competition. Reality is more complex. Strategic competition does not stop when war begins....
Fighting with the Fleet You Have and Building Availability into the Autonomous Systems Age
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (611+ words) “You have to fight with the fleet you have now,” he told me. “That is not an option; it is a necessity.” There are at least five ways this plays out. The first is in ship repair itself. Robotic systems…...
The???Air Littoral??? Does Not Solve the Low-Altitude Problem
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1587+ words) Robbin Laird’s recent article, “The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too,” attempts to move the debate over the so-called “air littoral” beyond terminology and toward force design. That is a worthwhile objective. The United States does need better and…...
The Grid is the Kill Web: Rethinking Power Wars as a Mesh Force Problem
1+ week, 3+ day ago (516+ words) Where I want to take their argument further is in showing why this is not simply an energy policy problem or an industrial base problem. It is a kill web problem. The grid is not merely the thing that powers…...
The Air Littoral Is a Maritime Problem Too: What the Kill Web Fleet Can Teach the Airpower Debate
1+ week, 4+ day ago (950+ words) Read them side by side, though, and the more interesting story is not that they disagree. That is worth spelling out, because it suggests the “air littoral” debate is not really a debate about a label at all. It is…...
From Hosting to Co-Invention: The USMC and the Australian Army in Evolution
1+ week, 5+ day ago (246+ words) Chaos Management and the Idea of the Impact Force Marine Rotational Force–Darwin as the Shared Laboratory A Complementary Theory of Littoral Land Power Matilda 1 and Co-Invention at the Deck-Plate Level Land Power in the Littoral Age: Rethinking the Australian…...
Strategic Military Lessons from Ukraine and Israel
1+ week, 6+ day ago (929+ words) War is evolving from a competition between armed forces into a competition between complex national systems. We are living in an international environment that is significantly less stable and predictable than in the past. Great-power competition, the return of large-scale…...