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As Dr. Andrew Carr of Australia National University notes: “Laird and Maxwell bring considerable experience to this task. Laird has spent decades charting Western defence developments and engaging with policymakers across the world, including Australia. Maxwell’s scholarship on Latin America and its global legacies has given him deep familiarity with Brazil and its approach to international affairs.”

As Dr. Felipe Krause of Oxford University comments: The Australian, Brazilian and Chinese Dynamic offers a compelling lens through which to understand this shift. By placing Australia and Brazil side by side, Robbin Laird and Kenneth Maxwell make an original and highly productive comparative move. These two countries are rarely analyzed together. They sit in different regions, belong to different strategic traditions, and are typically placed in separate conversations. Yet the comparison proves unusually revealing.

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Building the Impact Force  argues that the contemporary United States Marine Corps is undergoing a fundamental transformation from a traditional, crisis‑response force into an “impact force” designed to generate disproportionate effects for the joint and allied team under conditions of persistent chaos, contested logistics, and degraded communications. Rather than centering on whether the Corps is “leaving the land wars,” the core question becomes whether Marines can operate as resilient, forward nodes inside an adversary’s weapons engagement zone, sensing, deciding, and enabling fires across a broader kill web while remaining survivable and sustainable.

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The Global War in Ukraine: An Essay on the Changing World Order is not a book about a single front or a single war. It is a forensic examination of how one conflict has become the decisive crucible for a new international order. Ukraine is not a peripheral battlefield; it is “the furnace in which the international order is being reforged,” where alliance choices, industrial bets, and software updates collide with geography, memory, and nuclear shadow.

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Marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, 18TH CENTURY GLOBALIZATION: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY IDEAL COMES TO BRAZIL shows how the American founding did not end at Philadelphia, but launched a wider Atlantic wave of republican experiments that reached deep into the Portuguese empire.

Published in 2026, alongside a global outpouring of new work on 1776 and its legacies, Kenneth Maxwell’s study recovers one of the most surprising of those reverberations: a planned Brazilian republic in Minas Gerais in 1788–1789, directly inspired by a French-language collection of American constitutional documents first assembled as a propaganda tool by Benjamin Franklin.