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Slide for More Than a Numbers Game: Comparing US and Chinese Landpower in the Pacific Requires Context
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July 22, 2025
More Than a Numbers Game: Comparing US and Chinese Landpower in the Paci...
As the US Army organizes, trains, and equips for an unforeseen future, service decisions should create or amplify relative operational advantages over the US military’s rising foe—the People’s Liberation Army. Discerning critical differences between
Slide for Planning for Protracted Conflict with China: Five Questions to Ask
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June 26, 2025
Planning for Protracted Conflict With China: Five Questions to Ask
Where and how a conflict starts will affect the kind of war it will be.
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June 3, 2025
Assessing the PLA’s Strengths and Weaknesses for Achieving the PRC’s Goals
This chapter examines the perceived strengths and weaknesses of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) within the context of its modernization process and argues that the persistence of shortcomings may undercut the confidence senior leaders would prefer
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May 20, 2025
China Landpower Studies Center Newsletter II
In our second newsletter, we will share the China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC) team’s latest analysis and insights on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Ecuador’s Incoming Government Faces Difficult Choices Regarding China | R. Evan Ellis
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May 8, 2025
Ecuador’s Incoming Government Faces Difficult Choices Regarding China
With Daniel Noboa returning to the presidency and a new Chinese ambassador on the way, China-Ecuador relations are at an inflection point.From April 22-25, I had the opportunity to travel to Quito, Ecuador, to address an international forum on China
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Regional Issues, China Landpower Studies Center, European Security, INDOPACOM (Indo-Pacific Region), South & Latin America
Assessing the Effectiveness of US Army Campaigning in the Indo-Pacific
January 8, 2025
— Applying the military instrument of power is essential to deterrence and assurance in the Indo-Pacific. This essay explores the underappreciated application of Landpower in this critical region and assesses the effects of a few activities that assure allies and partners and deter the People’s Republic of China. The discreet examples in this short article hopefully provide a better foundation for understanding military dynamics in the region and allow for better future assessments of integrated deterrence efforts...
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“Potential Forms of Russian Support for China in a Protracted War”
January 6, 2025
— Brian Carlson and David Stone – “Potential Forms of Russian Support for China in a Protracted War”...
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8 Simmering Threats You Shouldn’t Ignore in 2025: A Plausibly Deniable Russian War Against Europe
January 2, 2025
— The sabotage of undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea by the cargo ship Yi Peng 3 is only...
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2025: Possibilities for the Year to Come
December 27, 2024
— 2025 is likely to be a transformative year for Latin America and the Caribbean, and its...
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Ecuador’s Evolving Engagement with the PRC
December 24, 2024
— Under the current Ecuadorian government of Daniel Noboa, major infrastructure, financial, and...
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It’s (Still) More Expensive to Rotate Military Forces Overseas than Base Them There
December 19, 2024
— In mid-2020, then-President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to withdraw roughly one-third of US...
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Security Implications for the United States from Iranian and Hezbollah Activities in Latin America
December 18, 2024
— This presentation will examine engagement with Latin America by Iran, its government agents, and...
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Making the Case for Democratic, Limited Government and Economic Liberty in the Americas
December 17, 2024
— This work is derived from an address given by the author to the InterAmerican Institute for...
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Will Assad’s Defeat be Putin’s Waterloo?
December 10, 2024
— The narrative of Russia’s ascendancy in 2024 is beginning to look like more fiction than fact. The Assad regime in Syria has become a casualty of Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts in Ukraine, and its collapse is a strategic and operational blow that undermines the narrative of Russia as ascendant, Kyiv as doomed, and Vladimir Putin as strategic mastermind. ...
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China’s Next Step in Modernizing the People’s Liberation Army: A New Reserve Service System
December 5, 2024
— The Chinese Communist Party’s massive active-duty army—the largest in the world—understates the manpower available to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) during a future protracted war. Despite the hundreds of thousands of combat troops garrisoned around the country, a prolonged war of attrition will require more than movement of forces from one side of the country to another...
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