A bit on some of the implications of Japanese constitutional reform… The legal structure governing Japan’s use of force continues to evolve, albeit slowly. The process deserves more attention,
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
My latest at the Diplomat takes a closer look at some of the bureaucratic impediments to closer alignment between the US and India: It seems that the geopolitical question of the decade has become “
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
J. Tyler Lovell and myself have a short piece on Chinese jet engines at the National Interest… The problem of technology mismatch, at its root, is that the thief lacks trade secrets and human ca
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
My latest at the Diplomat looks at the growth of South Korea’s defense industry… What’s the upper limit for South Korea’s defense industry? A recent Jane’s Defence Weekly profile by
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