Regional Issues

China Landpower Studies Center | Nov. 13, 2025

China’s Foreign Police Training: A Global Footprint

New data reveal how China’s foreign police training programs have become an integral part of Beijing’s strategy to remake global security.

China Landpower Studies Center | Nov. 13, 2025

SSI Live 118 – The China Strategic Competition Seminar

In this episode of SSI Live, Major Brennan Deveraux interviews Colonel Kyle Marcrum and Lieutenant Colonel Paul Milas on the SSI-developed China Strategic Competition Seminar. The conversation explores the origin and relevance of the seminar,

China Landpower Studies Center | Nov. 7, 2025

Forecasting the PRC’s Next Global Initiative

Executive Summary:• Xi Jinping could unveil a “global environmental initiative” as soon as mid-November 2025, at the COP31 summit in Brazil. This would align with previous initiatives that have been announced at international forums.• This new

China Landpower Studies Center | Oct. 27, 2025

The PLA’s Progress toward World-Class Ground Force Capabilities

This essay examines Xi Jinping’s dictum of creating a world-class military by 2049 and assesses the progress of the PLA ground forces toward achieving that notional benchmark.

China Landpower Studies Center | Sept. 30, 2025

Global Public Security with Chinese Characteristics

A conversation between Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Bonnie Glaser on China's Global Security Initiative.

Category: Regional Issues, China Landpower Studies Center, European Security, INDOPACOM (Indo-Pacific Region), South & Latin America

Strategic Implications of the U.S.-DPRK Framework Agreement
April 1, 1995 — Author: Dr Thomas L Wilborn The United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)... MORE

American Civil-Military Relations: New Issues, Enduring Problems
April 1, 1995 — Authors: Dr Douglas V Johnson II, Dr Steven Metz The authors were invited to prepare a paper for a... MORE

Counterforce and Theater Missile Defense: Can the Army Use an ASW Approach to the SCUD Hunt?
March 1, 1995 — Author: Dr James J Wirtz The Gulf War demonstrated that theater missile defense (TMD) will be an... MORE

Energy, Economics, and Security in Central Asia: Russia and Its Rivals
March 1, 1995 — Author: Dr Stephen J Blank The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the creation of five new... MORE

The Army in the Information Age
March 1, 1995 — Authors: LTC Anthony M Coroalles, Gen Gordon R Sullivan Two earlier monographs in this series by... MORE

The National Security Strategy: Documenting Strategic Vision Second Edition
March 1, 1995 — Author: Dr Don M Snider The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act requires the President to... MORE

World View: The 1995 Strategic Assessment from the Strategic Studies Institute
February 1, 1995 — Author: Dr Earl H Tilford Jr Every year the analysts at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)... MORE

Counterinsurgency: Strategy and the Phoenix of American Capability
February 1, 1995 — Author: Dr Steven Metz Dr. Steven Metz argues that the way the Department of Defense and U.S... MORE

The CFE Treaty: A Cold War Anachronism?
February 1, 1995 — Author: Dr Jeffrey D McCausland On November 19, 1990, the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)... MORE

Assad and the Peace Process: The Pivotal Role of Lebanon
February 1, 1995 — Author: Dr Stephen C Pelletiere The world is waiting for peace in the Middle East. At present the... MORE