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The V-22 Osprey has been central to Marine Corps assault-support thinking for more than two decades. It is the aircraft that transformed the speed and reach calculus of Marine expeditionary operations, and it remains the platform around which the Marine air-ground task force organizes its mobility and crisis-response capability in ways that no legacy rotorcraft can replicate....

Thirteen years ago, having been present at the dawn of the “surveillance state,” I asked a basic question in print: “Is America on the Eve of an Electronic Reign of Terror?” I posed it because I saw a pervasive and pernicious bipartisan consensus that unleashed information intrusion and fostered power in a government out of control.

The left instinctively trusts and en...

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The article’s most original contribution is its focus on operational preparation rather than operations themselves. Conversational AI transforms training by enabling rapid iteration of planning scenarios (wargaming), generating adaptive adversaries (“Red Teams”), and broadening the exploration of multi-domain options that would be impossib...

The Malacca Strait is a narrow waterway with outsized strategic significance, where alliance commitments, strategic gaming, and operational realities converge.

In a new three‑part series on Defense.info, I use Malacca as a case study to link alliance architecture to emerging deterrence challenges: the first article examines alliance documents and wargames that frame Ma...

The debate over interception increasingly turns on the balance between ground-based and space-based options.

Yet despite persistent concerns over the militarisation and weaponisation of space, space-based interception remains central to any truly holistic defence against incoming missile threats.

One emerging capability lies in satellites developed by SpaceX und...