I’m pleased to share my latest article, “Don’t Give Up the Shipyards,” out now in @defenseone.bsky.social. Grateful to @navybook.bsky.social for bringing this work forward. www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/1...

A comprehensive strategy for maritime statecraft. This is the strategy pursued by the prior SECNAV. For the first time, the authors offer an open discussion on its logic and path forward in @cimsec.bsky.social, authored by @hunterstires.bsky.social and Steve Brock: cimsec.org/maritime-sta...

NEW: The Kremlin is attempting to use all available informational avenues to convince the US, Europe, and Ukraine to acquiesce to the Kremlin’s demands by convincing them that a Russian victory in Ukraine is certain when it is anything but. More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025

My latest for the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social. BLUF: Peninsular stability is linked directly to Taiwan Strait stability. Military planners should approach the simultaneous threats of the #PRC and #DPRK with this fact in mind. #WriteFightWin www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

I’m pleased to share my latest article, coauthored with @SteveVBrock in @CIMSEC, laying out the Maritime Statecraft strategy we designed and have been driving forward since 2022 under the leadership of Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro. 1/4 cimsec.org/maritime-sta...

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Combat time adjacent; I find it weird that their time in combat has led them to believe: vaccines = bad, everyone having guns makes you safer and religion in govt is what good societies need I just can’t imagine myself seeing Somalis beg for polio vaccines and thinking “man they are lucky”

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

Call me a Luddite but this piece captures how I feel about AI‘s threat to writing. Writing is how humans organize thought to exercise reason, which is at the core of philosophy and strategy. Outsourcing that function to an imitative machine is a mistake. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...

When this scene was shot, Madeleine Lebeau, an actual French refugee who made it to the US, is singing the anthem of a nation that may never again exist. seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-grea...

I think a lot about how when Casablanca was filmed, nobody knew who would win WW2.

Today I complete my term as the Maritime Strategist to the Secretary of the Navy. I am profoundly grateful to Steve Brock and Carlos Del Toro for their intellectual generosity in inviting me to join them in the work of charting the course for the Department of the Navy. 1/6

Proud to be recognized by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro alongside my boss, Steve Brock, for our work as the principal architects of Maritime Statecraft and its underlying strategy.

The PRC telegraphs its punches.

Seminal piece in @WSJ by Dan Michaels on SECNAV’s leadership in forging a national Maritime Statecraft and the bipartisan SHIPS for America Act. Read the whole thing. America’s Maritime Renaissance is just getting started. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Finland shows the world how it’s done. Swift and decisive response to maritime gangsterism.

America’s Maritime Renaissance takes a major step forward. “In the background of it all has been SECNAV Carlos Del Toro, who has made encouraging foreign investment into American shipyards a key element of his “Maritime Statecraft” initiative…“ breakingdefense.com/2024/12/hanw...

GO NAVY!

Terrific piece by Dan Michaels in @WSJ on last month’s successful at-sea demonstration of TRAM for Vertical Launch System Connected Underway Replenishment. With quotes from SECNAV. www.wsj.com/world/china-...

"Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression" - Tsai. The Taiwanese get it. To deter #PRC from attacking #TWN, help #UKR defeat #RUS. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...