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Between Beijing and the Budget: The Domestic Realities of Taiwan’s Defen...

Taiwan's legislature spent six months blocking a major defense budget, then passed a scaled-down version days before the Trump-Xi summit. Jessica C. Liao and Kyle Marcrum argue why the story the US media tells is flawed.

“An Enviable Position in the Pacific”: An interview with General Xavier ...

Guest host Tom Spahr and General Xavier Brunson, commander of United Nations Command, ROK-US Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea (UNC/CFC/USFK), discuss Korea, the Indo-Pacific, and mission command.


Decoding China’s 15th Five-Year Plan

China’s latest Five-Year Plan signals that it has become more pessimistic about the global environment, seeing it as uncertain and unstable. However, the Chinese Communist Party sees opportunity in that instability to promote the Community of Common
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

Mexico’s “Narco-Refugees”: The Looming Challenge for U.S. National Security
October 1, 2011
Mexico's "Narco-Refugees": The Looming Challenge for U.S. National Security

2011-2012 U.S. Army War College Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL)
September 19, 2011