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How Chemistry and Rocket Motors Constrain American Warfighting Solid rocket motors—and the chemicals that fuel them—are a major limitation on America’s missile stockpiles, and one that cannot be solved by additional funding alone.

Don’t forget, making more rockets and missiles is waaaaaay harder than just throwing some money at a chemist or a factory. Our latest analysis in the National interest:

nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ho...

Thanks Nick 🫡 - excited to get the 96 hour munition burn rate article out with your team at @fpri.bsky.social soon!

The First 36 Hours of War Consumed Over 3,000 U.S.-Israeli Munitions Replenishing stockpiles depends on vulnerable critical mineral chains.

Required reading from @jaharamatisek.bsky.social, @mbazilian.bsky.social and Macdonald Amoah on how quickly we expend and how slow we reconstitute …
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...

Our Payne Insitute analysis on the types of munitions used by the US, Israel & Allies in the first 36hrs is out w/ Foreign Policy
We show how many months & minerals it’ll take replenish the missiles and interceptors expended.
ANd, we will have a 96hr list soon!

foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...

Escalation Scenarios in a Widening U.S.-Iran Crisis The deployment of a second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group to Middle East marks a strategic inflection in the U.S.–Iran confrontation.

50% of U.S. Airpower is deployed to the Middle East. Here’s my analysis on what the American Airpower Armada means as a tool for coercion and bargaining as President Trump will likely make his final decision for Iran after his State of the Union Speech.

eagleintelreports.com/escalation-s...

Or easier:
Don’t touch the island.
Don’t touch The mainland.
Don’t touch the missiles.
Don’t touch the damn boats.

The Drone Supply Chain War: Identifying the Chokepoints to Making a Drone China controls the critical materials that underpin modern drone warfare. The U.S. defense industrial base is dangerously dependent. This article reveals the five strategic chokepoints and four steps ...

If you think America is ready for a future war involving lots of drones then you don’t understand how vulnerable the supply chain is to make a drone. My latest with my Payne Institute Team and Col Schweiker in @csis.org :

www.csis.org/analysis/dro...

Trump’s national security strategy: from Pax Americana to Pact Americana | The Strategist After 100 days of action, US President Donald Trump’s national security strategy is coming into focus. His second presidency appears to embrace a ‘peace through strength’ approach, as first suggested ...

*taps the sign*
The new NSS is exactly what I said it would be when I wrote this back in May
(I wonder if they used it in the ChatGPT language model to write it 😂😂😂)
www.aspistrategist.org.au/trumps-natio...

How to design a credible air deterrent for Ukraine after a ceasefire - Breaking Defense If a ceasefire in Ukraine happens, the European Union should lead the creation of an Allied Air Command for Ukraine (AAC-U), write Dave Deptula and Jahara Matisek.

My latest with retired USAF General Deptula on how the West should form an Allied Airpower Command - Ukraine (AAC-U) to ensure Ukraine has an integrated Air Defense and Air Force to deter Russia in post-ceasefire era:

breakingdefense.com/2025/12/how-...

In @asiatimesonline Scott Foster outlines PM #Takaichi budget support for industrial policy:
--Increase by more than 50% in state subsidies for research and development for #AI (including further progress in robotics), nuclear fusion and quantum computing ... 1/

Or perhaps keeping one's shoes on during the flight? @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Operationalizing the National Defense Industrial Strategy for great power competition Russia is setting a rare-earth extraction roadmap; the United States must do the same to ensure military readiness.

My latest with Morgan Bazilian in @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social on how the U.S. can improve its defense industrial base (DIB) by improving metrics, financial incentives for midstream manufacturers & a DIB doctrine for acquisition offices and defense planners:

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energy...

Be on the lookout 🧐 for this other Donald Trump

Data Centers at Risk: The Fragile Core of American Power - Foreign Policy Research Institute On October 20, 2025, a glitch at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in northern Virginia triggered more than 6.5 million website outages, disrupting

Just up at @fpri.bsky.social ... www.fpri.org/article/2025...

Data Centers at Risk: The Fragile Core of American Power - Foreign Policy Research Institute On October 20, 2025, a glitch at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in northern Virginia triggered more than 6.5 million website outages, disrupting

Published a great report here with the Payne Institute team on the US industrial base and Warfighting vulnerabliyies due to the material issues and wait times around building data center infrastructure to support a modern economy and military.

www.fpri.org/article/2025...

Secretary Doug Burgum on X: "🚨 Today, @Interior and @USGS released the final 2025 List of Critical Minerals, identifying 60 minerals essential to our economy, national security and way of life. 🧵 https://t.co/YUC3wFAqQf" / X 🚨 Today, @Interior and @USGS released the final 2025 List of Critical Minerals, identifying 60 minerals essential to our economy, national security and way of life. 🧵 https://t.co/YUC3wFAqQf

So we can see the pitch Central Asian, Southeast Asian, and African leaders might make as to why their regions of the world should matter more to the United States. x.com/SecretaryBur...

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Security Force Assistance without Strategy: A Clausewitzian Reassessment - Military Strategy Magazine In this article, Matisek and Reno reframe Security Force Assistance as an instrument of statecraft, making it a strategic act, not a technical task. Drawing on Clausewitz and recent cases like Iraq, A...

My (final) likely opus article on security force assistance (SFA) with Dr. Will Reno…probably will be the last peer reviewed article I ever publish on military assistance and security cooperation since the Pentagon is killing off SFA basically:

www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/secu...

My article on why the U.S. needs to lead efforts in countering adversarial seabed warfare:

digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Solving the US military's gallium dilemma requires turning trash into treasure Gallium, a key metal in US defense, mostly comes from China. To ensure war readiness, the United States must diversify its supply.

My take with the Payne Institute Team with @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social on how important gallium is to the U.S. defense industrial base and why America needs a proactive approach to solving this choke point before China turns off the flow of it:

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energy...

My policy recommendations on how NATO should adapt to the current Cold War 2.0 environment:

www.napforum.org/policy-brief...

Sicario, 2015. The Beast scene YouTube video by Paul Anderson

The Sicario song I was referring to!

youtu.be/PTedsOULqX0?...

Watch & Learn about our pitch for turning a Roomba into a “Boomba”!!!

Watch the Flash Traffic Podcast for cutting edge technology updates with @jaharamatisek.bsky.social Jahara "FRANKY" Matisek (PhD)!

Listen and watch on Spotify:
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Quantum Sensing and the Future of Warfare: Five Essential Reforms to Stay Competitive States has ceded key technological terrain in quantum. The administration’s research and development priorities elevate quantum’s importance from fundamental science to critical technologies, but five...

My latest at @csis.org with Col Schweiker & Morgan Bazilian on how quantum sensing tech needs to be developed and integrated into the U.S. military:

www.csis.org/analysis/qua...

We were also promised algae jet fuel too during the Bush Admin

Jet fuel, China, and lanthanum: a hidden risk to US military power projection Why it matters to the US military that China controls the global supply of lanthanum, a rare earth element used to make jet fuel

There’s a rare earth element (controlled by 🇨🇳) that is needed to make 🇺🇸 military jet fuel - JP-8 is used across US/NATO military aviation and even for M1 Abrams Tanks. My latest in @AtlanticCouncil with the @payneinstitute Team:

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energy...

These Materials Could Cripple America’s Defense Industrial Base - War on the Rocks The Pentagon’s arsenal and defense industrial base is built on materials that China can turn off like a light switch. Growing uncertainty in critical

There are 7 minerals and materials in the supply chain that China will weaponize against the U.S. economy & defense industrial base. In this article with the team at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, we identify these chokepoints that can be fixed in 2-4 years
warontherocks.com/2025/08/thes...

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