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July 16, 2025
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Geopolitics in the South Caucasus
Jeffrey Mankoff, a Distinguished Research Fellow in the INSS Center for Strategy and Military Power (CSMP), joined The Russian Roulette podcast.
July 7, 2025
Super Soldiers or Social Burden? Ethical Exploration of the Benefits and Costs of Military Bioenhancement
Biotechnological enhancements for military personnel arouse scrutiny, beyond the ethics of experimental research and due care during operational service, to the eventual return to a civilian life.
Iran’s Strategic Crossroads: Options Beyond the Axis?
Events of 2023-2024, culminating with the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, have brought Iran’s regional strategy—a triad of ballistic missile capabilities, nuclear latency, and a decentralized network of regional armed partners—to a moment of reckoning.
July 6, 2025
A Better Way to Talk About Risk
Defense planners are prepared to accept risk to deter China, but what does that mean for counterterrorism?
July 5, 2025
China’s Military Diplomacy in the New Era
Military diplomacy — including senior-level visits, port calls, and joint exercises — has become a vital tool of Chinese statecraft.
June 30, 2025
The German Defense-Industrial Zeitenwende: Implications for Transatlantic Security
The Zeitenwende, or “watershed moment”—announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in February 2022, days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—outlined a set of policy shifts, including the development of Germany’s first-ever National Security Strategy, that appeared to signal a greater role for Germany in the defense and security of Europe.
June 23, 2025
China's Military Diplomacy
Chinese military diplomacy serves both strategic and operational goals.
June 11, 2025
Re-examining National Missile Defense Strategy: Defending Against China
Dr. Kathleen Ellis, CSWMD Senior Policy Fellow, authored a National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) Occasional Paper, “Re-examining National Missile Defense Strategy: Defending Against China,”
June 10, 2025
Dr. Clint Work featured on Korea 24 Radio Show
On 10 June, Dr. Clint Work provided commentary on potential changes in the U.S. force posture on the Korean Peninsula for Korea 24.
Wartime transfer of command and South Korea's original nuclear armament theory
Dr. Clint Work provided media commentary on the U.S.-ROK alliance for the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's oldest daily newspapers.