Largely because of our lack of a maritime culture, insular attitudes and failure to see Australia...
The Musk Algorithm and the Sabotage Manual from WW2: which best explains your organisation?
“If you have never been punched in the nose, you have no idea how it affects the rest of your...
Mobilisation and making things: how US industry won the war
Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman is unapologetic about how free enterprise, creativity and...
Alan C. Wood & Alan Sutton, Military Aviation of the First World War (Fonthill, revised edition, 2022).
This excellent study introduces the embryonic air capabilities of the major combatants in the...
Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power. By Mark Wortman (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2022) 310 pages.
Hyman Rickover served in the United States Navy for 63 years. He pioneered nuclear propulsion and...
‘When China Attacks: A Warning to America’ by Grant Newsham
As a Chinese spy balloon flew over the US earlier this year many Americans may have asked what’s...
War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance, published in 1978, is a beautifully written work that tells the...
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Liu Cixin’s ‘The Three Body Problem’ is a wonderful mix of science fiction, political history...
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
“The night was still wilder than the last. In particular, one concentration of fire at quarter...