By Robbin Laird I published an overview piece, “Street to Fleet: How CNATRA Is Working Naval Aviation Training,“ ahead of ...
By Gleb Tsipursky Defense organizations already understand that authority should track mission, role, and risk. An ...
The CH-53K King Stallion is an optimized, heavy-lift, sea-based, long range solution for the Marine Air Ground Task Force. 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing increases readiness, lethality, and forward presence ...
By Robbin Laird A photograph taken on July 14, 2026 at Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center in Camp Douglas, Wisconsin ...
By Kenneth Maxwell Piddington is a small village and civil parish in Oxfordshire. Its population is 358. The British ...
Command Course, September 15, 2026 By Robbin F. Laird On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in the waiting area outside the Secretary of Defense’s office at the Pentagon, watching a ...
By George Galdorisi In September 1776 an enormous British armada lay anchored in New York Harbor. A month earlier, British forces under General William Howe had defeated the Continental Army and ...
For four decades, the U.S. Navy trained a generation of acoustic sensor operators who could look at a waterfall display and, from pattern and instinct built over a career, call a submarine contact ...
The post-Cold War period shaped a Marine Corps optimized for the wrong war. Built around a “crisis management” paradigm — one that assumed sanctuary, permissive logistics, and a knowable adversary, ...
In August 2026, off Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Virginia, a Navy-industry team quietly solved a problem that has constrained every discussion of unmanned maritime systems I have ...
Paris – France won €21.2 billion ($24.7 billion) of export orders for weapons in 2025, helped by India’s contract for 26 Rafale fighter jets and related armaments, the annual report of the armed ...
When I sat down with then Chief of the Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, in 2017, one of the quieter points he made has aged into one of the more prescient ones. Amid the launch of the ...