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Gen. Dan Caine visits South Korea for the 50th MCM and 57th SCM.

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, and beyond it.

South Korean soldiers pull security on a M3 Bridge vehicle during a wet gap crossing exercise.

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.

Digital artwork of a human face split into blue and red circuitry, surrounded by glowing data lines representing human–AI interaction.

Dec. 2, 2025

Human Agency Under Predictive Insight: Neuroethical Guidance of Behavioral AI

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 model.

Cover of the CTC Sentinel publication featuring a police officer standing in front of an anti-terrorism awareness poster. The top banner reads ‘Combating Terrorism Center at West Point – CTC Sentinel.’ The main feature articles listed are ‘Terrorism Risk: Theory, Practice, and Evolution’ and an interview with Admiral Frank Bradley.

Nov. 25, 2025

Foreign Terrorist Fighters: A Threat in Stasis

The threat of foreign fighters today is best understood as being in stasis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) walk side by side down a hall to attend a welcoming ceremony ahead of their talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Dec. 6.

Nov. 25, 2025

INSS joins NUPI Russia Conference 2025

INSS Distinguished Research Fellow Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff participated in the NUPI Russia Conference 2025: Russian power practices and repertoires.

The image shows a silhouette of a human head in profile, with the brain area illustrated using circuit-like patterns. At the center of the brain is a large microchip, symbolizing artificial intelligence or a combination of human cognition and technology. Radiating outward from the chip are multiple circuit lines, connecting the brain to the surrounding background. The background features bright blue concentric circles and electric-like energy streaks, creating a futuristic, high-tech atmosphere.

Nov. 18, 2025

Darwin Monkey: Next Generation Neuromorphic Computing and Competition for Cognitive Capability and Control

The Darwin Monkey System represents a substantive pivot from conventional AI toward synthetic cognition through neuromorphic architectures that emulate the structural and functional dynamics of the brain.

Cover of Open Journal of Philosophy

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.

A high altitude balloon is launched from Andoya Air Station in 2021.

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.

Multiple flags flying on tall flagpoles against a blue sky with clouds, with the Turkish flag prominently in the foreground and the European Union, United States, and other national and organizational flags visible in the background.

Nov. 17, 2025

Keeping Turkey in the fold

Turkey has become one of the most active middle powers navigating the erosion of the post-Cold War order.

Soldier in camouflage holding a small quadcopter drone with visible wiring and a strapped-on battery outdoors.

Nov. 6, 2025

We Can’t Buy Our Way Out: It’s Time to Think Differently

Current U.S. force structure and major platforms are likely to fail in the emerging operational environment.

INSS Around the Web | Jan. 27, 2026

Quantum Technologies: Focusing a Bit Upon Realities

Quantum technologies are often discussed in terms of being “revolutionary.” In the long term, this may likely be true, but at present, at least in military contexts, perhaps a more useful framing is to ask: in what domains and ways do quantum
INSS Around the Web | Jan. 26, 2026

AI-powered military neurotech: Mind enhancement or control?

Neurable, a consumer neurotechnology startup, has partnered with the Air Force to study whether electrode-studded headphones can track service members’ cognitive fitness, much like Garmin smartwatches have monitored Space Force members’ physical
INSS Around the Web | Jan. 22, 2026

The Arctic is a Strategic Distraction

Over the past five years, numerous articles have called for increased U.S. defense resources focused on the Arctic. This is a strategic mistake, a distraction.
INSS Around the Web | Jan. 20, 2026

INSS Contributes Chapter on "PLA High Command in a Protracted War" in Ar...

INSS China Center Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joel Wuthnow published a chapter on “PLA High Command in a Protracted War: Four Scenarios” in a new Army War College book edited by Joshua Arostegui, The 2024 Carlisle Conference on the PLA: Protracted War
INSS Around the Web | Jan. 8, 2026

Re-constructing and Construing the Warfighter: The Intersection of Bioen...

Current joint warfighters are no longer merely trained — in many ways, they are increasingly bioengineered.
INSS Around the Web | Dec. 17, 2025

Biotechnology in the FY 2026 NDAA: Strategic Implications — and Recommen...

The newly released FY 26 NDAA places explicit emphasis upon the increasing involvement of biotechnology in US military missions. As 2025 comes to a close, and we look ahead to the new year, Dr. James Giordano, Director of the CDTFW, offers a view to
INSS Around the Web | Dec. 16, 2025

The Imperial Trap: Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Lessons of Failed Con...

Since the release of the U.S. 28-point draft peace plan in late November, many officials and observers have suggested that a ceasefire in Ukraine may be on the horizon.
INSS Around the Web | Dec. 16, 2025

Dr. Tom Lynch Contributes U.S. Chapter to The Palgrave Geopolitical Atlas

"Chapter 2: United States" in The Palgrave Geopolitical Atlas: State and Quasi-State Actors in Great Power Competition is part of a comprehensive 54-chapter edited book that examines global state and quasi-state interactions in the new era of Great
INSS Around the Web | Dec. 11, 2025

The Challenge of a Rising, Nuclear-Armed China

This National Institute for Public Policy article examines several specific developments in China’s nuclear arsenal, which, coupled with Beijing’s aggressive foreign policy, hold sobering implications for U.S. national security interests.
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).