The latest in my “What If Never?” series turns to the past… The five super-dreadnoughts of the Queen Elizabeth class were among the finest battleships ever built. Combining high spee
Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads places the Middle East and Central Asia at (as their names imply) the center of world history. Frankopan argues that trade across Central Asia was critical not
Latest in my “What if Never?” series takes on the “Big Five” group of Army procurement programs from the 1970s: In the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. Army embarked on a series of pr
Sharon Weinberger’s The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, The Pentagon Agency that Changed the World is one of a few recent books to examine the intersection between science
Latest in my “What if never?” series at the National Interest looks at the void left by the USS Forrestal… But the construction of the Forrestals had not resolved the argument. Air
Another Diplomat piece, this time on whether the Trump administration might try to tie the trade war against China to Chinese behavior in the South China Sea… Over the past month, the Trump admi
The LGM Podcast episode between Geoff Williams and myself led to some media attention which led to this article. But two new academic papers posit that drug market dynamics alone don’t fully explain
Some links… The Iraqi spy who infiltrated ISIS. The legacies of Kofi Annan. Safety Culture or safety behavior? Adam Tooze on Turkey’s crash. Balloons to Drones has a useful Airpower Readin