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.

Strategic Effects of Conflict with Iraq: Europe
March 1, 2003 — Author: LTC Raymond A Millen War with Iraq signals the beginning of a new era in American national... MORE

Strategic Effects of Conflict with Iraq: Post-Soviet States
March 1, 2003 — Author: Dr Stephen J Blank The author has been asked to analyze four issues: the position that key... MORE

Mapping Colombia: The Correlation between Land Data and Strategy
March 1, 2003 — Author: Dr Geoffrey Demarest The mapping of Colombian national territory, however, is fundamental to... MORE

Strategic Effects of Conflict with Iraq: The Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey
March 1, 2003 — Author: Dr W Andrew Terrill War with Iraq signals the beginning of a new era in American national... MORE

Strategic Effects of Conflict with Iraq: Australia and New Zealand
March 1, 2003 — Author: Dr Andrew Scobell The author has been asked to analyze four issues: the position that key... MORE

Strategic Effects of Conflict with Iraq: Southeast Asia
March 1, 2003 — Author: Dr Anthony L Smith The author has been asked to analyze four issues: the position that key... MORE

Strategic Effects of Conflict with Iraq: South Asia
March 1, 2003 — Author: Dr Amit Gupta The author has been asked to analyze four issues: the position that key states... MORE

Security Transformation: Report of the Belfer Center Conference on Military Transformation
March 1, 2003 — Authors: Dr John Deutch, Dr John White The attacks of September 11, 2001, represented the beginning... MORE

Reconstructing Iraq: Challenges and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario
February 1, 2003 — Authors: Dr Conrad C Crane, Dr W Andrew Terrill With the winds of war swirling around Iraq, it is... MORE

Waging Ancient War: Limits on Preemptive Force
February 1, 2003 — Author: Dr D Robert Worley The author addresses the ways that the age of terrorism is affecting... MORE