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Publications | Aug. 26, 2025

Loyal Paraguay: The Peña Government’s Strategic Choice to Stay with Taiwan

From August 11-15, 2025, the author was in Asuncion, Paraguay, in an International Republican Institute (IRI) event hosted by that nation’s President Santiago Peña, bringing together government officials, diplomats, businesspersons, and civil
China Landpower Studies Center | Aug. 13, 2025

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
China Landpower Studies Center | June 26, 2025

Planning for Protracted Conflict With China: Five Questions to Ask

Where and how a conflict starts will affect the kind of war it will be.
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Russian Gas, Green Technology, and the Great Sacrifice
June 23, 2022
Russian Gas, Green Technology, and the Great Sacrifice
Coalition of the unWilling and unAble
June 9, 2022
Coalition of the unWilling and unAble by John R. Deni
Yes, Russia Might Invade a NATO Country. Here’s How the Alliance Should Prepare.
June 1, 2022
Russian President Putin (from Wikipedia)
Yes, the United States Should Weaken Russia
May 27, 2022
Yes, the United States Should Weaken Russia
NATO Must Prepare to Defend Its Weakest Point—the Suwalki Corridor
May 27, 2022
NATO Must Prepare to Defend Its Weakest Point—the Suwalki Corridor
Toward a New Normal in Transatlantic Collective Defense
May 25, 2022
Toward a New Normal in Transatlantic Collective Defense
The West Should Not Wish Away the Russian Threat Yet Again
May 25, 2022
A Russian serviceman interacts with a bear at the zoo in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol on May 18, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine. AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES / OLGA MALTSEVA Sourced from Defense One for use in "The West Should Not Wish Away the Russian Threat Yet Again" by John R. Deni https://ssi.army.afpims.mil/SSI-Media/Recent-Publications/ctl/ArticleEdit/mid/63305/Article/3508510/
China, Europe, and the Pandemic Recession: Beijing’s Investments and Transatlantic Security
May 22, 2022
China, Europe, and the Pandemic Recession: Beijing’s Investments and Transatlantic Security Dr. John R. Deni, 2022 Given the depth and breadth of the pandemic-induced recession in Europe, private companies in need of capital and governments looking to shed state-owned enterprises may be tempted to sell shares, assets, or outright ownership to investors with liquidity to spare. Of greatest concern is the role that China might play in Europe, building Beijing’s soft power, weakening allied geopolitical solidarity, and potentially reprising the role it played in the 2010s, when its investments in Europe expanded dramatically. https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/949/
Would a Russian Coup Solve Anything?
May 13, 2022
President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the military parade in Red Square, Moscow, to mark the 77th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Lessons from Russia’s Latin America engagement over Ukraine
May 9, 2022
Lessons from Russia’s Latin America engagement over Ukraine