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Protecting Servicemembers from Foreign Influence
2023 WPS Hybrid Workshop Summary: Building Inclusive Resilience in the Pacific
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Emergency Management Best Practices Learned from COVID-19
The Department of the Navy and Strategic Competition with the People’s Republic of China
An Air Force officer operates a terminal for the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, the world’s first networked computer system. Beginning in the late 1950s, it aggregated data from hundreds of radars to coordinate the defense of North America against nuclear-armed Soviet bombers. Photo credit: MIT Lincoln Lab.
Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Operations
Artist’s concept of Soviet SS-20 mobile intermediate-range ballistic missile systems in launch position from Defense Intelligence Agency Soviet Military Power 1985. SS-20s as well as US Pershing II and Ground Launched Cruise Missiles were eliminated under the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Great Power Cooperation and Nuclear Risk Management
Major General John Deedrick, 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) commanding general, offers a coin to a newly promoted psychological operations noncommissioned officer during a promotion ceremony larger than any other in Army special operations history.
Next Generation Leadership and Implications for Special Operations Forces
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Arctic Economic Security: Recommendations for Safeguarding Arctic Nations against China’s Economic Statecraft
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Exploring the Relationship between China’s Investment in the Arctic and Its National Strategy
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Foreign Direct Investment Screening in the Arctic
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Arctic Prospecting: Measuring China’s Arctic Economic Footprint
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Preparing for Tomorrow’s Threats: Overcoming Obstacles to Organize, Adapt, and Innovate
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Reimagining Defense Strategy
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Sea Changes: Transforming U.S. Navy Deployment Strategy, 1775–2002
Joint Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2017"
Russian Forces in the Western Military District
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Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy in Russia
“Frauenrechte in Afghanistan,” Bundeswehr/Bawar Media Center, https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/einsaetze-bundeswehr/die-bundeswehr-in-afghanistan/frauenrechteafghanistan-5027014.
The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda: Cross-Regional Challenges and Opportunities
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Adrift: COVID-19 and the Safety of Seafarers
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Prevailing Under the Nuclear Shadow: A New Framework for US Escalation Management
The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN 729) prepares to moor outboard of the submarine tender USS Emory S. Land
Diego Garcia: US and Allied Basing Rights in the Era of Great Power Competition
: “BLACK SEA (Aug. 16, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) transits the Black Sea en route to a scheduled port visit to Golcuk, Turkey, Aug. 16, 2019. Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its seventh patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa.)” (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class T. Logan Keown/Released)
Great Power Competition: Assumptions Behind the Headlines
Two U.S. Navy Lockheed US- 3A Vikings; A Royal Canadian Air Force C-17 Globemaster III and two C-130J Super Hercules aircraft; Guided-missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN 728); GREENLAND (2010) Military Sealift Command-chartered dry cargo ship MV American Tern
Basing Rights and Contested Sovereignty in Greenland and Diego Garcia: The Impact of Decolonization on US and Allied Access in the Era of Great Power Competition
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Unconstrained Foreign Direct Investment: An Emerging Challenge to Arctic Security
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The Origins and Development of A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (2015)
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Bangladesh v. India: A Positive Step Forward in Public Order of the Seas
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