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Oct. 22, 2024

The Role of America’s European Allies in the Russia-Ukraine War, 2022–24

In this monograph, Lisa A. Aronsson and John R. Deni assess whether US allies and partners in Europe can continue providing military assistance to Ukraine or expand assistance, while preserving their own national security and fulfilling their NATO commitments.

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.

Oct. 22, 2024

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. 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

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.

Aug. 9, 2024

Chinese Regime Playing Key Role in Ongoing Wars

How do China and Iran matter to the wider context of the Israel-Hamas War and for the future of stability in the Middle East? See INSS’ Tom Lynch address these topics in his feature interview from 29 July 2024.

July 22, 2024

Assessing Russian plans for military regeneration

Senior Research Fellow Dr. Jaclyn Kerr writes the chapter “Russia’s Asymmetric Enablers” in this research paper.

July 9, 2024

The Future of Hybrid Warfare

The NATO Futures Series by CSIS features scholars from the Futures Lab, the International Security Program, and across CSIS. It explores emerging challenges and opportunities that NATO is likely to confront after its 75th anniversary.


INSS Around the Web | 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).

INSS Around the Web | 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,

INSS Around the Web | 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.

INSS Around the Web | Dec. 2, 2025

Human Agency Under Predictive Insight: Neuroethical Guidance of Behavior...

The examination of the Centaur AI system highlights a turning point at the intersection of behavioral science and artificial intelligence, and reveals a compelling truth: human choice displays structured regularity that advanced analytic systems can




INSS Around the Web | Nov. 17, 2025

The Logos and Limits of Artificial Cognition: The Exemplar of Military Use

As AI increasingly emulates tasks of human judgment, abstraction, and decision-making, it challenges foundational conceptions of mind, agency, and moral responsibility.

INSS Around the Web | 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.