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Strategic Insights | July 8, 2025

Strategic Innovation in the DoD FY 2026 RDTE Budget: Leveraging Disrupti...

The Department of Defense FY 2026 Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDTE) budget request marks a strategic inflection that reflects a doctrinal shift toward convergent disruptive technologies, and with it, a re-posturing of how deterrence,
INSS Around the Web | July 7, 2025

Super Soldiers or Social Burden? Ethical Exploration of the Benefits and...

Biotechnological enhancements for military personnel arouse scrutiny, beyond the ethics of experimental research and due care during operational service, to the eventual return to a civilian life.
INSS Around the Web | 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
INSS Around the Web | July 6, 2025

A Better Way to Talk About Risk

Defense planners are prepared to accept risk to deter China, but what does that mean for counterterrorism?
INSS Around the Web | July 5, 2025

China’s Military Diplomacy in the New Era

Military diplomacy – including senior-level visits, port calls, and joint exercises – has become a vital tool of Chinese statecraft.
Strategic Insights | July 1, 2025

The Orb’s Eye: Seeing the National Security Implications of Iris Based ‘...

As recently reported in the cover story of Time[JG1] magazine, the launch of The Orb—a beach‑ball‑sized biometric device developed by Tools for Humanity (co‑founded by Sam Altman)—marks a paradigmatic shift in digital identity and biosecurity
INSS Strategic Perspectives | June 30, 2025

The German Defense-Industrial Zeitenwende: Implications for Transatlanti...

The Zeitenwende, or “watershed moment”—announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in February 2022, days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—outlined a set of policy shifts, including the development of Germany’s first-ever National Security Strategy, that
Strategic Insights | June 24, 2025

Brain Scanning: Assessing Emigration of U.S. Scientific Talent to Survei...

Intensifying global competition in science and technology (S/T), particularly in fields with considerable disruptive potential - such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, synthetic biology, and neurotechnology—has become a defining
Occasional Papers | June 23, 2025

China's Military Diplomacy

Chinese military diplomacy serves both strategic and operational goals. The main strategic goals are supporting Chinese foreign policy and shaping the strategic environment; operational goals include supporting People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Strategic Insights | June 16, 2025

The “Ins” and “Outs” of Cognitive Warfare: What’s the Next Move?

INSS has relaunched Strategic Insights. Read the latest post by Elise Annett and Dr. James Giordano.
INSS Around the Web | June 11, 2025

Re-examining National Missile Defense Strategy: Defending Against China

Dr. Kathleen Ellis, CSWMD Senior Policy Fellow, authored a National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) Occasional Paper, “Re-examining National Missile Defense Strategy: Defending Against China,”
INSS Around the Web | June 10, 2025

Dr. Clint Work featured on Korea 24 Radio Show

On 10 June, Dr. Clint Work provided commentary on potential changes in the U.S. force posture on the Korean Peninsula for Korea 24.
INSS Around the Web | June 10, 2025

Wartime transfer of command and South Korea's original nuclear armament ...

Dr. Clint Work provided media commentary on the U.S.-ROK alliance for the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's oldest daily newspapers.
INSS Around the Web | June 5, 2025

Dual use and gain-of-function research: a significant endeavor with bios...

Drs. Diane DiEuliis and James Giordano published a new paper entitled “Dual use and gain-of-function research: a significant endeavor with biosecurity imperatives”, in the international, peer-reviewed journal mSphere.
INSS Around the Web | May 29, 2025

Naval power: American shipbuilding capacity and competition with China

T. X. Hammes, Distinguished Research Fellow in the INSS Center for Strategic and Military Power, joined Defense Priorities for a panel discussion on the reality of American shipbuilding and naval competition with China.
INSS Around the Web | May 29, 2025

Dr. Clint Work quoted in Financial Times article on US-South Korea alliance

Dr. Clint Work, a Research Fellow for Northeast Asia in the INSS Center for Strategy and Military Power, was recently quoted in the Financial Times article "The ‘quiet’ crisis brewing between the US and South Korea."
INSS Around the Web | May 27, 2025

How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan

Has Beijing found a new “assassin’s mace” to keep the U.S. military out of a fight over Taiwan?
INSS Around the Web | May 22, 2025

T.X. Hammes quoted in The Economist on US shipment of missiles to the Ph...

T.X. Hammes, a distinguished research fellow in the INSS Center for Strategy and Military Power, was quoted in The Economist.
INSS Around the Web | May 20, 2025

The South Korea-US Alliance Is Due for an Overhaul

At a time of growing U.S.-China competition, the purpose of the alliance is once again becoming a subject of debate.
INSS Around the Web | May 12, 2025

Sea Dragons: Special Operations and Chinese Military Strategy

Joel Wuthnow contributes to this new CSMI Red Book published by the China Maritime Studies Institute/Naval War College Press titled “Sea Dragons: Special Operations & Chinese Military Strategy.”