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Through its publications, INSS aims to provide expert insights, cutting-edge research, and innovative solutions that contribute to shaping the national security discourse and preparing the next generation of leaders in the field.

 

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Category: Center for Strategy and Military Power

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands behind a podium wearing a suit, and delivers a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Dec. 3, 2025

Strategic Ambiguity: Erdoğan’s Turkey in a Multipolar World

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Finland and Sweden made the historic decision to seek membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Gen. Dan Caine visits South Korea for the 50th MCM and 57th SCM.

Dec. 2, 2025

Can Seoul Take the Lead & The Alliance Expand Its Aperture?

South Korea taking a lead role in conventional deterrence of North Korea, appears linked with enabling the U.S. conventional posture and the alliance's combined posture on the peninsula to better handle multiple threats to the alliance on, around, and beyond it.

South Korean soldiers pull security on a M3 Bridge vehicle during a wet gap crossing exercise.

Dec. 2, 2025

The Variables of OPCON: What "Conditions"?

Language around wartime operational control (OPCON) transition has evolved over the last decade, revealing important patterns and subtle (or not so subtle) shifts in position and policy.

Cover of the CTC Sentinel publication featuring a police officer standing in front of an anti-terrorism awareness poster. The top banner reads ‘Combating Terrorism Center at West Point – CTC Sentinel.’ The main feature articles listed are ‘Terrorism Risk: Theory, Practice, and Evolution’ and an interview with Admiral Frank Bradley.

Nov. 25, 2025

Foreign Terrorist Fighters: A Threat in Stasis

The threat of foreign fighters today is best understood as being in stasis.

A high altitude balloon is launched from Andoya Air Station in 2021.

Nov. 17, 2025

China’s "near space" legal warfare

A recurring Chinese narrative about so-called "near space" is an expression of the People's Liberation Army doctrine of Legal Warfare.

Multiple flags flying on tall flagpoles against a blue sky with clouds, with the Turkish flag prominently in the foreground and the European Union, United States, and other national and organizational flags visible in the background.

Nov. 17, 2025

Keeping Turkey in the fold

Turkey has become one of the most active middle powers navigating the erosion of the post-Cold War order.

Dr. Clint Work (right) is facing ahead in a suit and tie, with the words "ROK-U.S. Alliance: The Near Future—A Dialogue" with Dr. Clint Work's name and affiliation with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University.

Sept. 9, 2025

ROK-U.S. Alliance: The Near Future—A Dialogue with Dr. Clint Work

Dr. Clint Work joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Dialogue podcast.

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Commanding General for the unified U.N. forces Aiding the Republic of Korea to repel the North Korean Communists, and a staff officer (right) inspecting a Communist tank, destroyed during the recent U.N. landings at Incho.

Aug. 1, 2025

The Variables of OPCON

The control rod logic, while not outwardly promoted by U.S. officials, had reemerged to shape the process around the status of wartime OPCON.

Podcast cover art for "Russian Roulette" by CSIS. The design features a black-and-white photo of a historic Russian building overlaid on a red map of Moscow. Three diagonal black lines intersect the top right corner. The podcast title is in bold black letters at the bottom, and "CSIS" appears in the upper left corner.

July 16, 2025

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Geopolitics in the South Caucasus

Jeffrey Mankoff, a Distinguished Research Fellow in the INSS Center for Strategy and Military Power (CSMP), joined The Russian Roulette podcast.

The White House is pictured behind a large-scale fence at night.

July 7, 2025

Iran’s Strategic Crossroads: Options Beyond the Axis?

Events of 2023-2024, culminating with the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, have brought Iran’s regional strategy—a triad of ballistic missile capabilities, nuclear latency, and a decentralized network of regional armed partners—to a moment of reckoning.