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Robbin Laird’s account of how Ukraine and Asia’s engagement are rewiring European defense industry identifies something potentially larger than the European rearmament story itself. Read carefully, what he describes is not simply Europe spending more money faster, or Europe absorbing a wave of startups into its established primes. It is the early, uneven emergence of a differ...

Five years into AUKUS, the Australian debate remains stubbornly fixated on a single question: will the submarines arrive, and when?

John Blaxland’s submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry, Undersea Power: A Framework for Evaluating AUKUS, argues that this question, while legitimate, has trapped the debate in the wrong frame.

Submarines are not the strate...

Naval power is often judged by the capabilities of the platforms at the tip of the spear, such as surface vessels, submarines and combat aircraft. Those assets enable the United States to project power in the maritime domain, but to bring their full capabilities to bear requires readiness — a key priority for Pentagon leadership.

The CMV-22B Osprey plays a vital logist...

Hugo Chávez, a populist, won Venezuela’s presidency in a 1998 democratic election with about 57 percent of the vote. At that point, Venezuela was a functioning democracy.

Chávez campaigned as an outsider who would clean up corruption and replace the country’s established political system. He did not seize power through a communist revolution; instead, soon after taking...

A recent Defense & Aerospace Report Land Warfare podcast, in which Vago Muradian sat down with Brookings’ Michael O’Hanlon to discuss the lessons of the Ukraine and Iran wars, offers a useful occasion to test a framework I have been developing across several books and articles: the shift from a crisis-management force structured around episodic, high-intensity ev...