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US/NATO-Russian Strategic Stability and the War in Ukraine

Next Generation Leadership and Implications for Special Operations Forces

Preparing for Tomorrow’s Threats: Overcoming Obstacles to Organize, Adapt, and Innovate

Reimagining Defense Strategy

Sea Changes: Transforming U.S. Navy Deployment Strategy, 1775–2002
Prevailing Under the Nuclear Shadow: A New Framework for US Escalation Management

Diego Garcia: US and Allied Basing Rights in the Era of Great Power Competition

Global Health Engagement:

Overcoming Pathologies in Military Organizations

The Role of Water Stress in Instability and Conflict

The Origins and Development of A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (2015)

Advanced Energy and U.S. National Security

American Naval Policy, Strategy, Plans and Operations in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century

The Future of U.S.-India Naval Relations

National Security and Assured U.S. Electrical Power

Improving U.S.-India HA/DR Coordination in the Indian Ocean

National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change

Understanding an Adversary’s Strategic and Operational Calculus: A Late Cold War Case Study with 21st Century Applicability | U.S. Views on Soviet Navy Strategy and Operations

U.S.-India Security Burden-Sharing? The Potential for Coordinated Capacity-Building in the Indian Ocean

The Israeli “Nuclear Alert” of 1973: Deterrence and Signaling in Crisis

The Long Littoral Project: Bay of Bengal A Maritime Perspective on Indo-Pacific Security

The U.S. Navy in the World (1991-2000): Context for U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts

U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts (1991-2000): Strategy, Policy, Concept, and Vision Documents

U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts: Introduction, Background and Analyses

The U.S. Navy in the World (1970-2010): Context for U.S. Navy Capstone Strategies and Concepts: Volume I