Defense Industry Thought Leader; Founder and Principal of Darling Strategic Advisory LLC; Kansas State University alum; Opinions are my own
Danbury, CT
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"The pressing challenge before Pentagon officials involves expanding defense production while encouraging innovation in advanced technologies and munitions at a lower cost per unit."
We examine the gov't push to support a revitalized🇺🇸industrial base👇
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Great article by @MarcusReports in today's @WSJ about Trump's decision to reexamine the viability of steam catapults for CVN 81.
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"For years, aero & defense M&A was largely about achieving massive scale. Today, the challenge is increasingly about converting investment into production capacity, delivering new capabilities, & meeting demand w/ greater speed and cost efficiency."
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A big acquisition for the Romanian military - and conducted under the European Commission’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) loans. 🇷🇴 stands 2nd only to Poland in use of SAFE, which is vital for helping EU nations accelerate defense modernization.
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"Should a peer conflict spill beyond Ukraine, NATO & partner nations may face a liquidity crunch driving short-term yields higher and restricting their ability to sustain a long-term war effort."
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If you can not reliably reload VLS at sea, then your VLS are not just launchers they are also your magazine capacity... this means what a ship is fitted with is what it has, and whilst you can do fun things like quad or triple packing cells, those solutions do reduce options...
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US anti-ship missiles coming to Yonaguni for the first time, putting the seas around Taiwan in range japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/1…
Two of Taiwan’s major defense modernization programs - the F-16V fighter jet and indigenous submarine project - are overdue, but at least there is now signs of progress regarding the former. 🇹🇼
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USW Comptroller Jules Hurst: “We don’t have a defense industrial base problem. We have an industrial base problem.”
Spot on.
"While the CRINK alignment is not an alliance, merely a transactional network united primarily around opposition to the U.S.-led international order, it does provide an informal open-source meshwork of battlefield learning among the 4 actors."🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵🇮🇷
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We know very little about the content of the US-Denmark-Greenland security agreement, as little has been revealed so far about its details. Based on various statements, we can assume that the US can now strengthen its military presence in Greenland. Still, Greenland remains a Danish autonomous territory that the United States does not “own and control.” It will be interesting to see whether the published text contains the investment veto.
The agreement is clearly aimed at China and Russia. So how are Beijing and Moscow reacting? As of 20 September, neither has issued an official response to the deal itself. But their earlier statements and state-aligned media give strong clues. 🧵1/
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SCOOP: A shipment of F-35 parts, including a canopy, wound up in Hong Kong — sparking an investigation on Capitol Hill and raising the possibility that China could have access to key components of the highly-classified program.
with @marksatter
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Some positive news on the U.S. defense industrial front as the Pentagon seeks to accelerate production and expand capacity. First steps.
Lockheed Martin gets first batch of Patriot interceptor parts from General Motors defensenews.com/industry/202…
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French politicians and officials coming out of Macron's 3-hour meeting in what can simply be described as a "Stunned and alarmed" state...
Clearly the intel that Poland and Germany have already talked about is making it's way around the NATO table...
Je sors de près de 3h de briefing et d’échanges avec le Président de la République et les services de renseignement et de sécurité. Du haut de mes 50 ans, je n’ai rarement ressenti tel vertige. Vertige de la gravité des situations au Moyen-Orient et en Ukraine, de la folie prédatrice qui mène le monde au chaos. Vertige des risques et conséquences sur notre sécurité, notre économie, notre pouvoir d’achat. Vertige de tous ces candidats qui rêvent, sans retenue, sûrs de leur fait et de leurs postures, de gouverner la France dans cette époque et cette situation historique et grave. Notre démocratie, notre pays doivent déjà faire face aujourd’hui et devront faire front demain. Plus que jamais je me battrai, à ma modeste place, pour que la France ne cède pas son destin aux egos délirants, aux va-t-en guerre de salon, aux pacifistes de pacotille et aux soumis de la facilité et de la peur. La France doit plus que jamais être forte. Nous devons tous y contribuer. L’avantage du vertige, c’est qu’il vous rappelle de ne pas tomber. @PartiRadicalG
One would hope gov't leaders on all sides would understand the interwoven Trans-Atlantic defense supply chain structure and work to build upon this with a broader NATO/strategic partner-based collective industrial architecture for greater resiliency.
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The Trump administration is quietly pushing to create a coalition of mostly Western allies to counter China’s massive steel overproduction.
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"Geostrategically, the Mecca Pact introduces a significant security dilemma for Iran.
Yet the reality is there is no integrated central command, no collective force structure, and no shared rules of engagement."
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Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi says nuclear-powered submarines will not be ruled out as Tokyo reviews its key national security documents 🇯🇵
By @TakahashiKosuke
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$300 million invested in Franklin, Louisiana.
300,000 additional square feet of shipyard space.
330+ employees today and continuing to grow.
The infrastructure and workforce to build autonomous ships at scale. We’re expanding our footprint in Franklin to meet the scale of the mission ahead.
This is what investing in the future of American shipbuilding looks like.
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Things are moving 🇦🇺🇯🇵
'Production of the long-lead items for the first of Australia’s Mogami-class frigates has begun in Japan, Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy has revealed'.
🔗australiandefence.com.au/new…
