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March 10, 2025
China's Quest for Military Supremacy: A Conversation
On 25 Feb, INSS China Center Director Dr. Phillip Saunders and Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joel Wuthnow (INSS) spoke about their new book China’s Quest for Military Supremacy on the podcast, Mapping Global China Initiative, hosted by Maria Carrai at NYU Shanghai.
Feb. 20, 2025
INSS’ CSWMD joins DTRA to Host Biothreat Deterrence Roundtable, Strengthening Avenues for Strategic Deterrence
The United States and its allies and partners face an increasingly complex range of potential biothreats. How should the United States conceptualize, plan, and implement tailored deterrence strategies against evolving biological weapons threats? DTRA sponsored the NDU Institute for National Strategic Studies Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (CSWMD) to hold an exploratory roundtable to examine this topic.
Feb. 19, 2025
Drones and Biotechnological Weaponry: Emerging Risks, Strategic Threats, and Viable Readiness
The United States National Drone Association (USNDA) recently announced its sponsorship of the inaugural, international U.S. Military Drone Crucible Drone Championship to provide a venue for exercising U.S. and allied military drone training, advanced piloting, operational utility, and counter-measures’ capability.
Feb. 5, 2025
Rising Dominance of the Tactical Defense
T.X. Hammes published his article “Rising Dominance of the Tactical Defense” in the 57th issue of HNDC’s Review ATHENA.
Feb. 4, 2025
INSS hosts Roundtable with Turkish Ambassador Sedat Önal
INSS was pleased to host the Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye, His Excellency Sedat Önal, at the National Defense University on 29 January 2025.
Feb. 3, 2025
INSS joins CSIS Discussion on New Strategy for Containing Russia
On Thursday, 30 January 2025, Jeffrey Mankoff, a Distinguished Research Fellow in the INSS Center for Strategic Research (CSR), participated in a CSIS discussion on a new strategy for containing Russia.
Warship Weapons for Merchant Ship Platforms
T.X. Hammes co-authors this article about how turning merchant ships into warships with missiles and drones would expand the combat fleet quickly.
Build Containerized Missile Ships for Rapid and Affordable Fleet Growth
T.X. Hammes co-authors this article for CIMSEC, supporting building containerized missile ships for rapid and affordable fleet growth.
Jan. 27, 2025
Joint Force Quarterly 116 (1st Quarter 2025)
As we go to press with this issue, Bashar al-Asad, one of the longtime dictators in the Middle East, has fled to Russia, and the Syrian people have risen to make that happen.
Jan. 24, 2025
Dr. Tom Lynch Discusses "The Future of Great Power Competition" in DAU Webinar
On 21 January 2025, Dr. Tom Lynch (INSS) gave a virtual lecture and addressed subsequent questions in a two-hour webinar the topic of "The Future of Great Power Competition" to an online audience of almost 400 from the U.S. Defense acquisition community.