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Sept. 8, 2026
Joint Force Quarterly 120 (3rd Quarter 2026)
Secretary Hegseth has rightly tasked the nation’s military to refocus on its core and most essential function—fighting and winning our nation’s wars.
Educating for Advantage: Reimagining the National Security S&T Workforce as a Strategic Imperative
The newly released National Security Science and Technology Strategy (NSSTS) recognizes that on the global stage of twenty-first-century competition, human capital is the vital factor that creates, adopts, and operationalizes technological supremacy.
Sept. 3, 2026
Mind, Machine, Mission
Listen to Dr. James Giordano's interview on the Mind, Machine, Mission podcast, hosted by Military Times contributor Aliya Sternstein.
A Framework for Adaptive Human-AI Teaming in Military Contexts
AI is enhancing military planning by expanding computational capacity, accelerating information synthesis, and strengthening decision support across complex operational environments. As multidomain operations, persistent sensing, and compressed decision timelines continue to shape the future battlespace, the effective integration of AI will depend upon structured approaches that align computational capability with commander intent, human judgment, and accountable command.
Sept. 1, 2026
SYNTHComm: What AI Portends for Warfare…and Requires of Coordinated Command and Control
INSS experts Dr. Elise Annett and Dr. James Giordano authored a chapter in the newly released AI and Ethics Handbook titled "SYNTHComm: What AI Portends for Warfare…and Requires of Coordinated Command and Control."
Aug. 25, 2026
Preventing Biological Risk Requires More Than Restricting Gain-of-Function Research
Few areas of contemporary biomedical science so vividly illustrate the tension between knowledge as a source of public safety and security, and knowledge as a source of vulnerability as gain-of-function (GoF) research. Much of such work is routine and relatively benign, however, controversy arises when research involving infectious agents could increase properties such as pathogenicity, transmissibility, host range, immune evasion, environmental stability, or resistance to existing countermeasures.
Aug. 24, 2026
Cognitive Warfare and the Brain-as-Battlespace: Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and the Emerging Domain of Neurostrategic Competition
Introduction: The Human Brain as BattlespaceEvery competitive or conflictive human activity wields
Aug. 21, 2026
INSS Research Intern Receives STRATCOM Award
INSS Research Intern Alex Richter received the Larry D. Welch deterrence writing award on August 5 from U.S. Strategic Command at the STRATCOM Deterrence Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska for his essay titled “Chinese and US Approaches to Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Strategy.”
Aug. 19, 2026
INSS Research Engagements in Australia Advance Indo-Pacific Security Research
From 11-17 August 2026, INSS Distinguished Fellow Dr. Tom Lynch conducted research interviews and discussions in Australia (Canberra and Sydney) with government officials and think tank experts about Indo-Pacific security, the QUAD, and the U.S.-Australia strategic relationship.
Aug. 18, 2026
Decision Advantage in Cognitive Warfare, Part 2
A central challenge of cognitive warfare is governing the relationship between institutional cognition and an operational environment in which informational, behavioral, and social dynamics evolve continuously and often independently of military decision timelines. To meet this challenge, we propose that future command architectures should emphasize and integrate mechanisms for the adaptive synchronization of human judgment, AI, and the cognitive ecosystem being engaged.