38 North
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
- The U.S. Should Wind Down the UNDOF [UN Disengagement Observer Force for the Golan Heights]
- Reassessing the U.S. Alliance System
- OE Watch: Foreign
News & Perspectives of the Operational Environment, 2026, no. 5
- Private Military Companies Expand Russia’s Operational Reach Globally
- AI is the Next Major Biodefense Tech Priority
- Europe’s No-Panic Playbook for a Radically Different US Foreign Policy
- From Burden Sharing to Strategic Delivery: NATO and Turkey’s Priorities Ahead of the Ankara Summit
- India’s AI Playbook: From Talent Incubator to AI Leader
- A Stronger Europe in NATO: The Way Forward
- Supporting Freedom, Combating Anti-U.S. Regimes: A Democracy Assistance Agenda for 2026-2028
- How Institutional Barriers Shape Kuwait’s Energy Goals
- Limiting Adversarial Capital in Critical Minerals Supply Chains
- National Security Best Buys in Foreign Assistance
- Oman’s Economic and Political Restructuring Under Haitham
- Journal on Baltic
Security June 2026, v. 12, no.1
- Situational
Awareness for Proactive Rerouting: Enhancing Resilience in Submarine
Communication Cables
- Securing Offshore
Wind Farms in Poland: Legal Responsibilities, Institutional Gaps, and
Hybrid Threat Resilience in the Baltic Sea: Towards an Integrated Model
of Protection and Resilience
- From Vulnerability
to Resilience: Critical Infrastructure and Logistics Preparedness in
Sweden
- A Research Agenda
for Contemporary Total Defence: The Multilevel Governance Perspective
- Rethinking European Security: Istanbul Workshop
- Rethinking European Security: Vienna Workshop
- Rethinking European Security: Warsaw Workshop
- Canadian Military
Journal,
Winter 2026, v. 26, no. 1
- Over-the-Horizon
Radar: Overcoming the “Aurora Challenge”
- How Canada’s
Aviation Past in the Indo-Pacific can Shape its Future
- Antifragility at the
Canadian Military Colleges: The Resilience Plus Program
- Schrödinger’s
Soldiers: Reviewing How and Why the Military Colleges Create “Experts” in
the Profession of Arms
- Innovation by
Design: A Design-Thinking Strategy for the Canadian Armed Forces
- Measuring the
Performance of Canada’s Military Personnel System
- Quantum Technologies
in Defence and Intelligence Security
- The Second War
Without Battles: Canadian Army Deterrence in Germany (1951-1993) and
Latvia (2017-Present)
- Building Canada's
Circular Defence Industrial Base for NATO
- The Republic of Korea
and Canada's Defence Industrial Future
- A Trilateral Maritime Security Framework Between Canada-ROK-Japan in the North Pacific
- Battery Geopolitics: Balancing Industrial Power in the Race to Store Energy
- Demystifying the Nuclear Threshold
- The Dual Imperative in Turkish Foreign Policy: Right-Wing Populists and Their Opposition
- Egypt’s Military Landlord Economy and its Limitations
- The Future of American Economic Power
- Securing America’s Near Abroad: Recalibrating U.S. Policy Toward Haiti
- “AI + Education” Action Plan [translation]
- Beyond Targeting: The Untapped Role of AI in Military Decision-Making
- CSS Policy Briefs
- No. 6: Blind Spots
in the Grey Zone: Contextualising Hybrid Threat Assessments
- No 5: Europe’s
Changing Nuclear Landscape: French Forward Deterrence
- Ukrainian Analytical
Digest (UAD)
- No. 20: Ukraine's
Energy and Climate Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Terrorism
- Export Nation or Ecosystem Power: South Korea’s Choice in the AI Industrial Age
- The Geography of Coercion: Russian Missile and Drone Campaigns in Ukraine
- Managing the Long-Term Russian Threat to Europe
- What Does NATO Defense Spending Look Like Heading into the Ankara Summit?
- China’s Central Bank Digital Currency 2.0 and the Future of Digital Finance
- Time for Canada to Take a Stand on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
- Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans Want to Continue the USMCA but Differ on Terms
- Built by Immigrants, Shaped by Immigration
- Majorities in Chicagoland Side with Immigrants and Protesters over ICE
- Strong Bipartisan Support for NATO Ahead of 2026 Summit
- Chinese Investment in EU-Seaports: In Search of Tipping Points
- The Northern Sea Route 2030–2040 (three parts)
- De-risking the EU Accession Debate: Overcoming Ratification Challenges in EU Member States
- From Compliance to Ownership: Sustaining EU Migration Governance Reforms in the Western Balkans
- The Missing Link in EU Enlargement – Integrating Regional Civil Society Evidence
- Judicial Independence in Albania: From Formal Reform to Structural Change under the EU’s ‘Fundamentals First’
- Estimating the
Economic Effects of Federally Funded R&D
- Options to Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
- Establishing a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Program to Work with Security Researchers
- Russian Intelligence Services Continue to Target Commercial Messaging Applications
- Intra-Urban Waterscapes and Household Welfare in Kumasi, Ghana
- Repairing Under Fire: Recovery Chain Constraints on Ukraine’s Energy Resilience
- Defense Acquisition, v. 55, no. 3, May-June 2026
- Integrated Product
Team Readiness Levels–Is Your IPT Ready to Roll?
- Support the
Mission—Grow the Force
- Agile Principles as
Framework for Warfighting Acquisition Reform
- Contracting
Concepts—Publicizing Contract Actions
- The Pathway Is Not
the Problem
- A National
Guard-Industry Alliance for Accelerated Innovation
- Evolving at the
Speed of Conflict—Logisticians and the Next Fight
- Foreign Military
Sales Shape Strategy and Operations
- Bulgaria's Progress
in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist
Financing
- Information Sharing to Combat Illicit Finance: Global Overview of Public and Private Sector Partnerships and Data Protection Arrangements
- Turkmenistan's
Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and
Terrorist Financing
- From Greenland to Spain: Trump Threatens Allies While Embracing Turkey at NATO Summit
- In The Latest Russia-Belarus Non-Strategic Nuclear Exercise, Putin and Lukashenka Show Teeth
- China in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: From Economic Presence to a New Security Role
- Germany in the Shadow of the United States, Russia, and China – Systemic Paradigm Shifts
- Stability under Pressure: A Pakistani View on Nuclear Deterrence after Pahalgam
- AI Safety Index -
Summer 2026 Edition
- Global Organized Crime Index 2025: Oceania Overview
- Heroin Trafficking Along the Northern and Southern Routes
- The Counterterrorism Blind Spot: AI as a Radicalisation Environment
- Pre-Transactional Infrastructure and Insurgent Resilience: The Case of Islamic State Mozambique
- AI and Allied Defence: Bridging NATO and EU Approaches to Military AI Governance
- From Bilateral Limits to Global Stability: The Necessity of Integrating China into Nuclear Arms Control
- Local Expansion, Transnational Interests? The Evolution of the Islamic State’s Sahel Province
- Russia-Taliban Relations Are Growing: Implications for U.S. Policy
- Sustaining the Fight: Munitions Acquisition, Industrial Capacity, and Integrated Air and Missile Defense for Japan
- Dying in Detention: Rising Deaths in an Expanding US Immigration Detention System
- “I Live in Constant Peril”: Discrimination, Lack of Economic Autonomy and Violence Against Women in Cameroon
- ‘You’re Only Getting Out Deported or Dead’: Abusive US Immigration Detention at Ft. Bliss
- China’s Burgeoning Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness Demands a US Response
- The Data Center Water Problem Is Soluble
- Economic Consequences of Section 232 Tariffs on Semiconductor Imports
- Why the USMCA Matters for North America’s Economic Future
- Bangladesh’s Economic Resilience and Structural Constraints
- China’s Elite Politics under Xi Jinping: Governance and Global Security Order
- Digitally Enabled Radicalisation and Violent Extremism in India
- Force Multipliers: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Ukraine and Gaza Conflicts
- India’s Act East Policy and Engagement with Southeast Asia and Oceania, 2014-2025
- Israel’s Rising Defence Exports Amidst Regional Conflicts
- The Making of China’s Military Power in the New Era
- Netra’s Final Operational Clearance: Enhancing Mission Sudarshan Chakra
- Northeast India: Developmental Initiatives and Structural Constraints
- Russia’s Pivot to the East: Implications for India
- Beyond Awareness: Optimizing Bystander Engagement Training for the Federal Workforce
- Effectively Using Diagnostics to Identify Biological Warfare
- Africa File
- July 9, 2026 Another
JNIM Offensive Across Mali; SAF Advances on Secondary Fronts; New CAR
Rebellion
- China & Taiwan
Update
- Iran Update
- Korean Peninsula
Update
- Russian Occupation
Update
- Russian Offensive
Campaign Assessment
- Ukraine's Strike
Campaigns Will Likely Continue to Hurt Russia's Economy and Military
Operations in Ukraine
- Addressing the Intersection of Misogyny, Targeted Hate and Violent Extremism
- Mapping the ‘Nudify’ Tools Ecosystem
- Online Domestic Extremism in Canada Data Briefing – December 2025 to February 2026
- The False Equivalence of Sovereignty in Melnichenko’s Essay in the Economist
- Self-Preservation, Not Salvation: Deterrence, Diplomacy and the Gulf’s Iran Problem
International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)
- The Hollowing Arsenal: How Artificial Intelligence Erodes the Foundations of Irregular Warfare
- The Houthis and the Evolution of State-Enabled Irregular Warfare: Lessons from the Red Sea for Future Strategic Military Engagement
- Same Spelling Different Story: Comparing the Conceptualization of Irregular Warfare Across the Globe
- China Brief, July 10, 2026, v. 26, no. 14
- Beijing Tightens
Control Over Outbound Investment
- Maritime Pressure
Expands to Pratas and Taiping
- Xi’s Leninist
Selectocracy has Cemented Party Dictatorship
- CNP Part IV:
Calculation Holds Keys to Strategic Competition
- Cyber Lessons from Russia’s War in Ukraine
- Terrorism Monitor, July 3, 2026, v. 24, no. 11
- Iranian Kurds to
Face More Pressure If U.S.–Iran Deal Reached
- Syria’s Jihadist
Crackdown Could Lead to Islamic State Defections
- The Legal Machinery
Behind India’s Campaign Against Maoist Insurgents
- IS-Sahel’s Nigeria
Claims Signal a New Jihadist Frontier
- Special Warfare, v. 39, no. 1, Winter 2026
- Supporting the Army
Special Operations Forces-Space-Cyberspace Triad: Selection Criteria for
Army Space
- Officers Supporting
U.S. Special Operations Command
- The Lethality of
Relationships: Understanding Culture is a Necessary Skill
- Modern Warfare and
Risk
- Perspectives:
Parachute and Jumper Recovery (and Why the Army Should Care)
- Artificial
Intelligence: The New Force Mulplier in Training
Exercises
- Perspectives: 21st
Century Hedgerow Problems
- Beyond Words:
Rethinking Language's Role in Special Operations
- The Impact of
Digital Media on U.S. Special Operations Forces: Challenges, Perceptions,
and Cultural Shifts
- Perspectives: The
Weight of War and Reclaiming Combat Agility
- Resistance in Total
Defense: The Role of Citizens in LSCO
- Proficient at
Irregular Warfare? Time to Emphasize ‘Method of Instruction’ in the U.S.
Army Special Forces Regiment
- The Acquisition of Nuclear – powered Submarines in the UK [Korean and English]
- China's Nuclear
Submarine Development Quest: Strategy, Saga, Significance
- The Current Status and Challenges of the US Shipbuilding Industry
- The Development of the French Nuclear Submarine Force: Challenges, Innovation, and the Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy [Korean and English]
- Evolution and Future of India’s Submarine Force [Korean
and English]
- Nuclear Submarines and the U.S. Navy [Korean and English]
- Trends in US-Japan Shipbuilding Cooperation and Future Challenges
- Between the Superpowers: Southeast Asia’s Strategic Supply Chain Dilemma
- Democratic Erosion Report
- Understanding the Chinese Military Threat to Australia
- Elbows Up … Or Mea Culpa? Canada Needs to Deliver as a Trusted and Reliable Partner on North American Security
- A Threat from Within – Why NATO Should Suspend Türkiye
- Framework for Continuous Remote Attestation
- International Cooperation to Expand the Industrial Base and Enable Burden Sharing
- Naval War College
Review,
Summer 2026, v. 79, no. 3
- The Acquisition
Lessons of the 1980s and Their Continuing Relevance
- The Cognitive
Dimension of Mobilization—Reconsidering American War Preparation in an
Age of Persistent Cognitive Warfare
- Narrowing Seas—The
Littoral Strike Complex and the Future of Naval Warfare
- “A True
Sailor-Statesman”—The Ethical Quandary of Ambassador Raymond A. Spruance
in the Philippines
- Fighting without
Mastery—Italian Naval Strategy and the Defeat of the Regia Marina in the
Mediterranean, 1940–1943
- Research &
Debate—Forms of Military Strategy: Historical Parallels between the
American Confederacy and Imperial Japan, and a Way Forward
- CMSI Quarterly
Review,
Summer 2026, v. 1, no. 6
- China Maritime Report #56: The Silent Service: Assessing PLAN Influence in the Central Military
Commission
- ‘Chokepoint Politics’: China’s Rare-Earth Statecraft and India’s Search for Strategic Autonomy
- The Persistent Vulnerability of Tribal Regions: A Blind Spot in India’s Climate Adaptation Framework
- Reforming India's
Higher Defence Organisation
- UAE’s Exit from OPEC and OPEC+: Strategic Implications for Energy Markets and Diplomacy
- Using AI to Protect Teaching Time and Improve Learning Quality in Indian Schools
- Weapons Without Networks: India’s Precision Strike and Command Architecture Gap
- Who Sees the Sea? Capacity Building as the Foundation of Maritime Domain Awareness
- Containment, Resistance, and the MOU: The U.S.–Iran Negotiations in Historical Context
- European Strategic Autonomy: The European Union and Vital American Interests
- Revitalizing the Transatlantic Alliance: Principles for a Balanced NATO
- Do Robots Lure Us to War? Impact of the Robotic Revolution on the Propensity for Armed Conflict
- High Bandwidth Memory: What it is and Why it Matters
- Private Industry Approaches to Network and Security Operations Centers: Best Practices for the Department of the Air Force
- Strategist’s Dilemma: Agent-Neutral and Agent-Relative Reasons in U.S. AI Strategy
- Winning the AI Pentathlon Requires Endurance: The Case for Resilience and Risk Management as Core Elements of Competitive National AI Strategy
- New Thinking on UK Cyber Effects: An Edited Collection
- Royal Marines in the High North: Shaping the Maritime Battle
- Behavioral Sciences
of Terrorism and Political Aggression
- Vectors of Evolutionary Change: A Transdisciplinary Model for Analysing Evolving Terrorist Organizations [open access article]
- Critical Studies on
Terrorism
- Where the Far-Right Is Not: Critical Terrorism Studies and the Epistemological Limits of Far-Right Extremism in Non-Western Contexts [open access article]
- Defense &
Security Analysis
- Submarine Cables and Security Competition in the South China Sea: Pre-Emptive Infrastructure Power and Digital Sea Lines of Communication [open access article]
- Geopolitics
- Pandemisation of the Border: A Lens on Polish – German Rebordering Processes During and After COVID-19 [open access article]
- Journal of Risk
Research
- Burnt Out on Wildfire Warnings: Quality Messages Drive Recreationists’ Safety, But Overload Backfires [open access article]
- A Framework to Characterize the Balance Between Risk Science Quality and Usefulness
[open access article]
- Paradigm Evolution and Tension Dynamics in Disaster Recovery Research: A Theoretical Synthesis (1980–2025) [open access article]
- Words or Numbers? How Framing Uncertainties Affects Risk Assessment and Decision-Making
[open access article]
- Small Wars &
Insurgencies
- Partisan and Anti-Partisan Warfare in Soviet Military Thinking, 1918–1941 [open access
article]
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