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German automotive supplier Schaeffler will assemble a new batch of loitering munitions ordered by France from the French drone maker Delair and the Franco-German group KNDS, with the aim of increasing production rates tenfold.

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 Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar in Canberra on 1 October, The Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific, was framed around a question that sounds like a platform question: does Australia have enough air combat mass?

NATO’s top military commander has set out a theory of victory that limits the Alliance’s aim in a war on its territory.

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 NATO’s three eras.

The first postwar choice the Pentagon faces in the Gulf is not which bases to repair.

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 Aircraft Group 14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.

The House of Commons Defence Committee has published “Defence in the High North” (HC 71), and its conclusion is blunt.

For three decades, “generation” has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth.

In mid-October 2026, Professor John Blaxland of the Australian National University made the case for AUKUS twice in two days, to two very different audiences.

France and Chad have signed a letter of intent to restore defense cooperation, less than two years after N’Djamena ended the defense agreements that had linked the two countries since independence.

The word “generation” has been doing a lot of quiet work in airpower for three decades.

Overview of Professor John Blaxland’s Interview on Devil’s Advocate (Episode 93) Source: Devil’s Advocate (涵瞰世界), “EP 93 Prof John Blaxland on AUKUS: Strategic Imperative or Costly Mistake?”

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 of Dependency.”

Germany is examining whether it can field ground-based lasers able to act against satellites.

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.

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 period for learning how to fight the hybrid fleet, not mer…

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.

Four months after the collapse of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) it had pursued for years with Germany and Spain, France has set out its own path to a sixth-generation fighter.

There is a moment early in my conversation with Stephen Kuper on Defence Connect’s Contested Ground podcast when he asks me a routine question, the kind any interviewer asks a guest with a long résumé.

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: “a stronger Europe in a stronger NATO.”

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

The session on building mass with industry opened with a disclaimer.

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

The headlines in the Indo-Pacific tend to focus on the visible: carrier movements, missile tests, coast guard confrontations in the South China Sea.

The most useful argument at the Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s seminar on air combat mass and depth in Canberra on 1 October was not about aircraft.

This article was originally published in French by Operationnels SLDS: Pertes aériennes américaines pendant Epic Fury This brief takes a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report as its starting point and draws on additional sources to offer insi…

Rory Medcalf’s presentation to the Williams Foundation seminar on air combat mass and depth described a population that senses danger but cannot say what it is afraid of.

The fighting concept known as “blind ’em, burn ’em, blast ’em” was a practical assault technique for reducing Japanese fortified positions in the fight-to-the-death Marine campaigns during WWII.

Professor Rory Medcalf opened the Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s October 1 seminar on air combat mass and depth in the Indo-Pacific by declining to do what the room expected of him, which was to start with the threat.

On September 11, 2026, at the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said something that deserved more attention than it received.

The second Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar of 2026 opened with a question its organizers said has no simple answer.

On 30 September 2026, Ali Al-Zaidi, Iraq’s prime minister and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, marked Sovereignty Day and the conclusion of the mission of the international coalition forces to combat the Islamic State in Iraq. 1 October 2026 is “the

For two decades, the United States Marine Corps built its identity around a particular kind of war.

I have been coming to Australia since 2014 to write the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminars.

In my first AI White Paper, Theoretical AI Exists, Applied AI Is Now in Play: A TASCFORM Test Case and the Argument for Transparent Models, I concluded with this statement: “My research point is very simple: Theoretical AI exists, and Applied AI — for goo…

Dateline, Canberra, Austrlia I have just arrived in Canberra for the October 1 seminar hosted by the Sir Richard Williams Foundation.

Most of the commentary on the current tariff battles still frames them as a bilateral contest, Washington versus Beijing, with everyone else watching from the sidelines.

As I prepare to return to Australia for the October 1 Sir Richard Williams Seminar, an event I have attended, and whose proceedings I have written up every year since 2014, I want to add a modest and, I hope, moderate voice to the debate now underway over…

Take the prestige and institutional weight of the Navy’s Top Gun schoolhouse, then strip away the airframe.

For most of the postwar Pacific, “base” was the only word that mattered.

In several published articles I have argued that all things AI are best understood through an algorithmic lens, broken down for clarity into Theoretical AI and Applied AI.

It is early days, and anyone writing about this agreement should say so plainly.

On February 3, my colleague Ed Timperlake published “Greenland and the High Ground of the Kill Web: Why the Arctic Matters for Fighting at the Speed of Light.”

Morgenstern and subsequently developed by John Nash, among others, is one of the most powerful tools devised for understanding strategic interaction.

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Every air force in the world has the same problem hiding in its hangars: a fleet of legacy fighters and helicopters that were built for a different war and that cannot talk to the coalition architectures now being assembled around them.

Mysterious blazes at UAV production plants, improvised explosives at critical power grids, and foiled arson plots: hostile hybrid operations across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are no longer a theoretical threat.

The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series at the U.S.