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CLSC Dialogues podcast episode 29: "An Enviable Position in the Pacific," an interview with GEN Xavier Brunson
China Landpower Studies Center
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May 22, 2026
“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.
CLSC Quick Takes: Corruption and PLA Generals by Rick Gunnell
China Landpower Studies Center
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May 20, 2026
Corruption and PLA Generals
Rick Gunnell
Slide for Decoding China’s 15th Five-Year Plan by COL Kyle Marcrum, published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute
China Landpower Studies Center
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May 15, 2026
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
CLSC Dialogues podcast: Taiwan’s Special Defense Budget and KMT Trip to Beijing, Part 2, COL Kyle Marcrum and Dr. Jessica Liao
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May 14, 2026
Taiwan’s Special Defense Budget and KMT Trip to Beijing, Part 2
In part two of this two-part episode, COL Kyle Marcrum and Dr. Jessica Liao discuss Taiwan President Lai’s special defense budget and the Kuomingdang Chair, Cheng Li-wun, visit to Beijing.
CLSC Dialogues podcast: Taiwan’s Special Defense Budget and KMT Trip to Beijing, Part 1, COL Kyle Marcrum and Dr Jessica Liao
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May 13, 2026
Taiwan’s Special Defense Budget and KMT Trip to Beijing, Part 1
In part one of this two-part episode, COL Kyle Marcrum and Dr. Jessica Liao discuss Taiwan President Lai’s special defense budget and why it is stalled in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan.
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Don’t waste this crisis, Europe: consolidate your defense industry
April 15, 2025
— Turn your excess national defense champions into continental ones.Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine...
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A Drawdown of US Forces in Europe Is All but Certain
April 15, 2025
— Here’s how the Pentagon can rebalance its approach to the continent without sacrificing...
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Parameters | Spring 2025
March 20, 2025
— Welcome to the Spring 2025 issue of Parameters. This issue consists of an In Focus special commentary, three forums (Russia, Ukraine, and NATO; Strategic Competition and Managing National Security; and Joint Sustainment Strategies), the regular Civil-Military Relations Corner installment, and a review essay...
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North Korea in Ukraine: Analyzing Authoritarian Cooperation
March 18, 2025
— The deployment of North Korean forces to Ukraine marks a critical inflection point in global security dynamics, challenging long-held assumptions about the limits of cooperation between authoritarian states. This development, unprecedented in its implications, reveals even absent formal alliances or ideological cohesion, the strategic realignment among authoritarian states has the potential to reshape the global order and future conflicts...
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Toward a More Effective DoD Contribution to Strategic Competition in the Western Hemisphere
February 21, 2025
— Innovative new thinking is needed on the security challenges the People’s Republic of China poses in Latin America and the Department of Defense’s role in the US response, including (1) enhanced security cooperation that helps key democratic partners succeed and provides the United States leverage and situational awareness, and (2) anticipating how the People’s Republic of China may exploit its commercial and other activities in the region in times of war...
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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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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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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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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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