It is remarkable how little industry knows about the Navy and vice versa.
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It is remarkable how little industry knows about the Navy and vice versa.
Ever word is calculated here: I'll be fine, keep my titles and credentials, and expect the world to still take my calls and publish my work.
This is especially the case for defense software. Palantir, Anduril, etc. physical wares are loss-leaders for the underlying OS. If you think Lockheed’s path dependent power is high, just wait until defense’s Microsoft Windows emerges.
Back in 2020, Lindsay Cohn, Dani Lupton and I wrote about the danger of domestic law enforcement making itself indistinguishable from the military
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I agree, which is why I fear Jay Kelly will win all the Oscars.
“Even if a regime change operation succeeds at first, history again shows that long-term outcomes are often disappointing,” write Alexander Downes and Lindsey O’Rourke.
hey fellow authors, I received my Anthropic copyright settlement materials in the mail today. I thought I'd filed a claim already, but it turns out I needed to do so again. Might be worth double-checking or filing a new claim, just to be sure
You can do so here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
Returning today from some European events on transatlantic relations. No doubt the colleagues I met are revising their priors further.
All such documents are tools of domestic as much as international politics. This one seems almost entirely aimed at the former.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Write that book ("Globalkanization") now!!!!
This is dead right. Elites in China, India, the US and elsewhere took Huntington’s naive essentialism and turned it into an instruction manual for mobilization. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Indeed: Huntington was an early warning sign of how, amidst skyrocketing inequality, a small coterie of unpatriotic super elites would seek to tear down state structures while shouting racist narratives of blood and soil into the media that they control
The central challenge is ensuring that growing strategic divergence does not undermine the very complementarities that make this new equilibrium effective. This requires clear, consistent statements of interests and reliably following through on commitments.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is not zero-sum. A stronger European defence-industrial base enhances NATO deterrence and gives the United States the flexibility needed to manage increasing pressures elsewhere.
A complementary division of labour is emerging:
Europe is becoming the Alliance’s industrial foundation: munitions, ground systems, air defence, and high-volume manufacturing.
The US continues to provide strategic enablers without rival: long-range strike, aerospace, and cutting-edge R&D.
Drawing on alliance theory and extensive data on defense-industrial expansion across Europe, we show that today’s strategic divergence is creating a healthier equilibrium—one that increases Europe’s autonomy, strengthens NATO’s collective capacity, and supports U.S. global interests.
In our new (open access!) Survival article, Ethan Kapstein and I argue Europe’s rapid rearmament and US focus elsewhere are enabling a more effective and sustainable transatlantic partnership...if its members are willing to acknowledge and maintain it.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
would be bonkers if a bunch of rocket scientists had to leave the US for Europe because of fascism.
“No more foreign wars,” as the monkey’s paw curls shut.
The black box of academic publishing is dark inside indeed - and I've not even mentioned Manucript Central yet - but it also contains other academics doing their best as editors to steward your work with care and respect.
My short overview for @navalnews.com on the major news broken overnight in Japanese media that Australia now wants to acquire Upgraded Mogami aka 06FFM for the RAN under SEA 3000. As noted, no official statement by Canberra yet.
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
This. The political economy of American higher education is deeply misunderstood even by most of the people within it. This is shocking considering the stakes involved as well as US elites' obsession with it.
People: World Cup can't happen now FIFA will pull out
football fans: FIFA will just do corruption
People: who even understands how to be corrupt well enough to navigate this situation?
FIFA:
www.insideworldfootball.com/2025/07/08/f...
Great footage, highly recommended watch for naval infrastructure enthusiasts. Note also the completely stripped down and cut open Type 209 boat. Something you don't see often in such footage.
This is Sirens, brought to you by the Ladies of Bombshell. In Ep 1, our hosts talk about why they are launching a new podcast, reveal what horrible things they have discovered at the bottom of their work bags, and talk about issues that may lure men to their death.
sites.libsyn.com/92063/bonds-...
Star Trek - TMP: How is it that between Earth and the Klingon Empire -- the Federation's pacing threat -- Starfleet has one starship in drydock and that's it?
Where's the rest of the fleet? Who are they assigned to?
Oh, wait...
Automatic follow given the endorser.
No one in the world more qualified than my colleague @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social to discuss the ramifications of the military in LA.
Finally I argue here that because fleets take so long to develop, cost so much to build and operate, and last a very long time; they can shape a state's grand strategy as much as vice versa: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Clever research design on an important subject from
Josselin Droff, Jade Guiberteau-Ricard, and Julien Malizard: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...