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A New World Cop on the Beat? China’s Internal Security Outreach Under th...

Global outreach by China’s internal security agencies is expanding. This nonmilitary security diplomacy plays a crucial yet overlooked role in Chinese foreign security policy. Watch Now

South & Latin America | Aug. 13, 2025

Election, Crisis, and U.S. Opportunity in Bolivia

Bolivia, strategically at the center of South America, faces a critical election that will define its direction in its current profound economic, political and security crisis, its future relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), its

Publications | 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


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

Op-Ed: Where Have All the Army Generals Gone?
November 15, 2011

Arms Control and Proliferation Challenges to the Reset Policy
November 1, 2011
Arms Control and Proliferation Challenges to the Reset Policy

Forecasting Zero: U.S. Nuclear History and the Low Probability of Disarmament
November 1, 2011
Forecasting Zero: U.S. Nuclear History and the Low Probability of Disarmament

Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future
November 1, 2011
Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future

Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples’ Wars
November 1, 2011
Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples’ Wars

Op-Ed: China’s Aircraft Carrier: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
October 27, 2011

Economic Transition in Afghanistan: How to Soften a Hard Landing
October 25, 2011

The Afghanistan Question and the Reset in U.S.-Russian Relations
October 1, 2011
Real Leadership and the U.S. Army: Overcoming a Failure of Imagination to Conduct Adaptive Work

Natural Gas as an Instrument of Russian State Power
October 1, 2011
Real Leadership and the U.S. Army: Overcoming a Failure of Imagination to Conduct Adaptive Work

Presidential Succession Scenarios in Egypt and Their Impact on U.S.-Egyptian Strategic Relations
October 1, 2011
Presidential Succession Scenarios in Egypt and Their Impact on U.S.-Egyptian Strategic Relations