Battleship Redux: An Ironclads Inflection & ‘Dronenaught’ Class Warships
Reading Time: 8 minutes History’s first duel between ironclad warships during the American Civil War ushered in the beginning of a new era of naval warfare In […]
Greg Rowlands
Blood Moon Rising: Militarisation Of Cis-Lunar Space
Reading Time: 6 minutes Cis-lunar space and militarisation of the Moon is the impending next chapter in an evolving astrostrategic contest for dominance of space beyond geostationary […]
Dronekrieg
Reading Time: 6 minutes ‘This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.’ – Alan Turing […]
Leonidas’ Legacy: A Matter of Missiles vs Manoeuvre
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘Our archers are so numerous, said the envoy, that the flight of their arrows darkens the Sun. So much the better, replied King Leonidas, […]
Shades of Grozny: Anti-Tank Drones and the Yom Kippur Effect
Reading Time: 8 minutes ‘Don’t shoot till you see the glint of their electro-optic sensors‘ Armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) designers employ a multilayered systems approach to […]
Tactical Satellite Launch: Enabling Autonomous Futures & Expeditionary Ambitions
Reading Time: 7 minutes ‘However beautiful the strategy, one should occasionally look at the results’[1] Great power competition and not the fight against terrorism is now […]
Mission Command Algorithms: An Evolution of Artificial Intelligence & Combat Leadership
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘There is no reason to believe that leadership will be spared the impact of Artificial Intelligence’ Anyone in the military who has served […]
Deception, Diversion & Disguise (3D): Amphibious Operations Success in the Third Decade
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘Be mysterious to the point of soundlessness, then be the director of your opponents fate’ An Australian Amphibious Task Group (ATG) assembled […]
When Radio Silence is Not Enough: Signature Suppression & the Fight for Surprise
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘The next fight will be a battle of signatures. Assume everything we do can and will be observed. We are going to […]