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China’s September 2025 Military Parade: How PLA Ground Forces Are Adapting to Future Wars and Force Projection | Joshua Arostegui

Elections, Crisis, and US Opportunity in Bolivia | Dr. R. Evan Ellis

Understanding, Deterring, and Preparing for a Great-Power War in the Twenty-First Century | Antulio J. Echevarria II, Larry P. Goodson, and Brennan Deveraux

SSI Live 116 – Exterminating ISIS: A Memoir on Technology and Warfare | By Dr. John R. Deni and MAJ Brennan Deveraux

SSI Live 115 – Argentina Under Milei: Success, Failure, or Something in Between? | By Dr. John R. Deni and Dr. Evan Ellis

More Than a Numbers Game: Comparing US and Chinese Landpower in the Pacific Requires Context | Brennan Deveraux and Joshua Arostegui

Weaponizing Risk: Recalibrating Western Deterrence | Antulio J. Echevarria II

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technologies into Common Operating Picture and Course of Action Development | C. Anthony Pfaff and Christopher John Hickey

Academic Year 2025–26 Annual Estimate of the Strategic Security Environment | US Army War College

Planning for Protracted Conflict With China: Five Questions to Ask | Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens

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Publications | Sept. 16, 2025

Parameters | Autumn 2025

Welcome to the Autumn 2025 issue of Parameters. We open with two In Focus commentaries. The first, “A Case for Military Proportionality: Disabling Nuclear Plants” by Henry Sokolski, offers practical ways in which military planners can disable

China Landpower Studies Center | Sept. 5, 2025

China’s September 2025 Military Parade: How PLA Ground Forces Are Adapt...

China’s military parades are often viewed as a form of deterrence by giving Xi Jinping an opportunity to showcase the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) advanced weapons systems to the world and bring like-minded authoritarian leaders from partner

Publications | Aug. 26, 2025

Loyal Paraguay: The Peña Government’s Strategic Choice to Stay with Taiwan

From August 11-15, 2025, the author was in Asuncion, Paraguay, in an International Republican Institute (IRI) event hosted by that nation’s President Santiago Peña, bringing together government officials, diplomats, businesspersons, and civil

Publications | Aug. 25, 2025

From the Last Frontier to the Final Frontier: The Polar Regions and Spac...

This article examines the intersection of Arctic geopolitics and space security amid intensifying U.S., Russian, and Chinese competition. Melting ice has opened access to resources and new sea routes, elevating the Arctic’s strategic value while

Publications | Aug. 15, 2025

The Economic Argument for Keeping US Forces in Europe

NATO’s Hague summit earlier this summer has generally been viewed as a qualified success, despite — or perhaps because of — its unusually short and focused agenda. The new 5 percent defense spending commitment deserves most of the credit for this

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The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America's Special Operations
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The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age
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Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror
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Mission Iran: Special Forces Berlin & Operation Eagle Claw JTF 1-79
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Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
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Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror
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Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East
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