Defense and the National Interest (DNI), hosted at d-n-i.net, was an online repository for military reform thinking founded by Richards and his wife in March 1999 with a grant from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). It served as the primary digital publication venue for the ongoing Boyd-influenced discourse on defense strategy, procurement reform, and military doctrine after Boyd's death in boyd-death-1997. Richards announced the closure of the site in November 2009; its content was subsequently archived at DNIPOGO.org.
DNI aggregated and published original articles, briefings, and commentary from the extended Boyd circle — including chuck-spinney, don-vandergriff, and Richards himself — as well as reprints of Boyd's own briefings and related primary sources. The dni-articles that Richards contributed represent one of the primary bodies of his defense-oriented writing, predating and running parallel to his business-oriented work in certain-to-win.
The site was a crucial infrastructure for maintaining the Boyd intellectual community during the agile-engagement-period and business-translation-period, keeping the military reform strand of Boyd's legacy alive while Richards and others pursued civilian applications. It embodied the same ethos as defense-and-the-national-interest itself: making reformist thinking available outside official channels.
DNI's existence as an open online repository also reflects the ooda-based-competition principle applied to information: getting ideas into circulation faster than institutional publication processes allow. The site eventually went offline but its archives remain an important record of Boyd-community thinking in the decade following Boyd's death.