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.

Disaster and Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from Rwanda
September 1, 1994 — Author: Dr Steven Metz Rwanda's horrific civil war suggests that human disasters requiring outside... MORE

Energy and Security in Transcaucasia
September 1, 1994 — Author: Dr Stephen J Blank One of the world's enduring regional conflicts is in Nagorno-Karabakh... MORE

French Policy Toward NATO: Enhanced Selectivity, Vice Rapprochement
September 1, 1994 — Authors: Dr William T Johnsen, Dr Thomas-Durell Young The authors of this report explain how French... MORE

Russian Policy and the Korean Crisis
September 1, 1994 — Author: Dr Stephen J Blank North Korea's nuclear program is the greatest current threat to U.S. and... MORE

Partnership for Peace: Discerning Fact from Fiction
August 1, 1994 — Authors: Dr William T Johnsen, Dr Thomas-Durell Young The authors analyze and assess Partnership for... MORE

U.S. Africa Policy: Some Possible Course Adjustment
August 1, 1994 — Author: AMB Daniel H Simpson Ambassador Daniel H. Simpson addresses the question of U.S. interests... MORE

The Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War
July 1, 1994 — Authors: LTC James Kievit, Dr Steven Metz The authors concede that the revolution in military... MORE

The New Russia in the New Asia
July 1, 1994 — Author: Dr Stephen J Blank This monograph offers an account of the current struggle inside Russia... MORE

Two Historians in Technology and War
July 1, 1994 — Authors: Dr John F Guilmartin Jr, Sir Michael Howard In April 1994, the Army War College's Strategic... MORE

Does Russian Democracy Have a Future?
July 1, 1994 — Authors: Dr Stephen J Blank, Dr Earl H Tilford Jr In 1854, on the eve of the Crimea campaign,... MORE