China dominates our headlines as reporters and environmental activists track down the nearly 300-ship Chinese fishing fleet off of the coast of Darwin, South America. The must-read article of the day goes to the AP’s Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s

Read More

A couple deep dives today as we start off with War Room’s: To Keep Pace With Rivals, Analyze The Competition Space. Understanding the human geography is vitally important in any conflict and some could argue that this lack of understanding was a major US failure in both Iraq

Read More

If you have time to read only one article today, it should be the Modern War Institute’s: Digital Dunkirk: What the Afghan Evacuation Should Teach Us about the Future of Volunteer Support to the US Military. It makes me proud to have previously worked among the few who were

Read More

The European fallout from the nuclear sub deal spreads to Germany. According to DW: German minister: Submarine dispute is ‘a wake-up call’ stating that Europe “cannot exclusively rely on others” sparking rumors of an independent European Military. In addition,

Read More

As the US – UK – Australia submarine agreement continues to roil allies, it is important to take a closer look at what the AUKUS really is. For that we will begin with The Economist’s: The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting. The newly

Read More

I started this post on Thursday but as sometimes happens, these take longer than expected, and given time, trends can shift and what appeared  a clear narrative got muddled over the last couple days. Today’s Daily Dump contains a variety of stories that probably

Read More

Lots of Events and Podcasts today, so many that I don’t know where to begin other than recommend The John Batchelor Show’s interviews with Bill Roggio and Tom Joscelyn at the end of this post regarding Afghanistan. For a really deep dive on the terror threat in Afghanistan,

Read More

The Irregular Warfare Initiative has a new podcast out, Lessons from the Hardest Place: Twenty Years of War in Afghanistan, that discusses the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, how the integration of special operations and conventional forces didn’t always go well and other

Read More

Last night we watched 60 Minutes’, Scott Pelley on the courage of the FDNY, 20 years after 9/11, it was powerful. The determination, bravery and legacy of those incredible firefighters. They are some of the heroes we should never forget. I reflected on these stories and many

Read More

Yesterday’s Daily Dump focused on a region that in some ways has been neglected during the war on terror and today’s will be no different as The Center for Strategic and International Studies asks the question, Is Latin America Important to China’s Foreign Policy? If you

Read More