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Oct. 22, 2024
Book Chapter: The Rising Dominance of the Tactical Defense?
Read the chapter titled "The Rising Dominance of the Tactical Defense?" by T.X. Hammes in Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War, which examines whether land warfare is once again entering a period of defense dominance.
Game-changers: Implications of the Russo-Ukraine war for the future of ground warfare
On 3 April 2023, T.X. Hammes published an article in the Atlantic Council titled "Game-changers: Implications of the Russo-Ukraine war for the future of ground warfare."
Oct. 21, 2024
Joint Force Quarterly 115 (4th Quarter 2024)
By the time you read this, our national elections will be imminent. Our next President, regardless of whom that will be, must confront the world as it is, not as it could be. No one solution will fit all foreign conflicts, and none of these will necessarily fit our domestic needs.
CSWMD Moderates Side Session at UN General Assembly First Committee
In support of the State Department Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence and Stability, Chemical and Biological Weapons Affairs Office, NDU INSS Center for the Study of WMD (CSWMD Senior Policy) Fellow Sarah Gamberini moderated a side session during the United Nations General Assembly First Committee.
Oct. 16, 2024
China’s Forever War: What If a Taiwan Invasion Fails?
As the prospects of a war across the Taiwan Strait increase, more attention is being paid to the ramifications of conflict for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the region.
Oct. 10, 2024
Cyberspace: Great Power Competition in a Fragmenting Domain
This article explains how the cyber domain today largely replicates the patterns of devolution and fragmentation observed in the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) and aviation domains more than a century ago.
Oct. 7, 2024
Thirty Years of the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction
NDU’s Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (CSWMD), part of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, has been a trusted resource on WMD challenges to senior Defense and other interagency policy leaders for 30 years.
Oct. 2, 2024
More Red but Still Expert: Party-Army Relations Under Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping has encouraged the People’s Liberation Army to be able to "fight and win wars" while remaining "absolutely loyal" to the Chinese Communist Party.
Oct. 1, 2024
CSWMD joins NDU Africa Center at Workshop in Lagos to Strengthen Counter-Disinformation Efforts
The NDU Africa Center for Strategic Studies conducted a Catalyzing African Defender Communities Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria from 24-27 September 2024.
The War in Ukraine and Russia’s Quest to Reshape the World Order
Moscow is actively using the conflict in Ukraine to advance its vision of a different international order.