Firday's Miscellany 02-27-2026 & 03-06-2026

 38 North

• Expert Takes on North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress 
• A New Look at North Korea’s Economic Redistribution During the COVID-19 Pandemic 
• North Korea’s Integration of AI Across Cyber, Economic, and Military Domains 
• Quick Take: Initial Assessment of Key Personnel Changes in North Korea’s 9th Party Congress 
• Revisiting North Korea’s Nuclear Tests 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• African Migration Trends 2026: Managing Drivers, Security, and Opportunity 
• Translating Botswana’s Concept of Botho into a Culture of Military Professionalism 

 Air University Press

• Assuring Allies and Partners: The Utility of Ballistic Missile Defense 

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

• Reframing Palestine:  A Comparative Analysis of Palestinian Representation in Western Legacy News Media and the Platformed Commentary Ecosystem 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• China’s Transition to Scalable Intelligence   
• Fault Lines in the Horn of Africa: The Gulf States, Turkey, and Israel Battle for Red Sea Influence 
• When Does China Stop Growing (Entirely)? 

 Amnesty International

• “Tiger Base” of Atrocities:  Human Rights Violations by Nigeria Police Anti-Kidnapping Unit in Owerri 

 Andrew Marshall Foundation 

• Artificial Intelligence, the Complexity Trap, and National Security 

 Anthropic

• Measuring AI Agent Autonomy in Practice 

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), January 2025, v. 33, no. 1 
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Among U.S. Active Component Service Members, 2014–2022
• Applying Distinct Approaches to Racial and Ethnic Classification to the Surveillance of Obstetric and Neonatal Outcomes in the U.S. Military, 2010–2021
• Case Report: An Atypical Ross River Virus Infection in an Australian Army Service Member
• Surveillance Snapshot: Chikungunya in Military Health System Beneficiaries, 2020–2024
• Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 40, Ending October 4, 2025

 Army University Press

• Military Review, January-February 2026, v. 106, no. 1 
• Leadership in LSCO: Leading and Training Conscripts, Lessons from Ukraine, NATO Allies, and Our Own Past
• Looking on the Conflict on the Horizon: From “Peace First” to a “Be Ready” Perspective
• Red Skies Ahead: Russia Planning for Its Drone-Driven Army of Tomorrow
• Prolonging the Fight: Enhancing Unit Survival Skills for the LSCO Environment
• Saving Lives with Data: The Joint Trauma System is an Integrated Battlefield Trauma System that Saves Lives While Increasing Lethality
• The U.S. Army in an Increasingly Borderless War: Challenge of Planning for Security in a Competition with China in Africa
• A Choice to Lead: Generative AI in Army PME
• Planes, Trains, Automobiles … and Now Helicopters: Integrating Air Support for Faster Resupply and Distribution
• The Energy Requirements for Processing Data on the Future Battlefield
• Leading by Letting Go: Integrating Organizational Unlearning and Adaptive Leadership
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constabulary Operations in the Eastern Arctic: Implications for Arctic Security
• Causing Dysfunction: Dilemma Engineering as a Strategic Deterrence Framework for China
• Moral and Spiritual Injury in War: Russo-Ukraine, Israel-Iran, and Beyond
• The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
• Victory Starts Here: A Short 52-Year History of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1973–2025 

 Army War College Press

• Parameters, Spring 2026 no. 56, no. 1 
• Legacies Worth Considering: (Re)examining the Assumptions Behind Denial Strategies
• Approaching the Military as a Profession Through the Clausewitzian Trinity
• Strategic Theory and Clausewitz’s Trinitarian Test
• Successful Large-Scale Combat Operations Require Artificially Intelligent Breaching Munitions
• Imitating US Doctrine Cost Europe Its Heavy Combat Power
• Risk Decision Making and Intertemporal Choice: Lessons from the Taiwan Strait
• Spezialpropaganda: The East German Military’s Covert Information-Warfare Program
• Strategic Rivalries: How Are They Won?

 Army War College Strategic Studies Institute

• Securing the Rice Bowl:  PRC Agricultural Hardening as a Strategic Maneuver Multiplier 

 Asia Society / Center on U.S. China Relations

• Rare Earths and Strategic Competition: A Case Study of Chinese Statecraft 

 Asia Society Policy Institute

• China’s Strategy in the Ukraine War and the Shaping of a Post-Conflict Order 
• The Evolving Politics of Climate Change in China 
• The Gen Z Movement and the Future of Nepal 
• What to Watch at China's Two Sessions in 2026

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• Loss and Containment: Asia-Pacific states and the exaggerated threat perceptions of the United States and China 

 Atlantic Council

• 2026 Atlas:  Freedom and Prosperity Around the World 

 Australian Army Research Centre

• In Denial: The ADF and Littoral Manoeuvre 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Disruption and Opportunity:  Australia and Critical Minerals in a Changing Global Order 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Gulf Energy Transition Through Renewable Energy Development 
• The Trump Corollary: An Expansive Vision of US Influence 

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• The EU and the Global South: Allies in a Multipolar World? 

 Bipartisan Policy Center

• Deficit Tracker [updated February 2026] 

 Bloomsbury Collections [Open Access books]

• 44-Day War: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Struggle for Nagorno-Karabakh 
• AI Evidence and Criminal Proceedings 
• GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning 
• Gendered Impacts of China's Development Initiatives in the Global South 
• Realizing Saudi Vision 2030: Governance, Institutions and Human Capital Development 
• Socialist Parties in Southern Europe and the Cold War International Order: Ideological Evolution, Foreign Policy and Security 

 Brookings Institution

• America’s Narrative on Taiwan Needs an Update 
• Beyond Paper Reforms:  Building Coalitions for Democracy in the [Democratic Republic of Congo] 
• The External Wealth of Nations Database 

 Brown University, Costs of War Project

• The Costs of Militarized Rivalry with China: A First Estimate 

 Bruegel  

• Defragmenting European Union Climate Policy 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Institut Canadien Des Affaires Mondiales)

• Diplomats’ Guide to Canada:  2026 
• New Zeland’s 2025 Defence Capability Plan: Inspiration for Canada? 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Arrival of the Multi-order World and Its Geopolitical Implications 
• Russia in Africa:  Examining Moscow’s Influence and Its Limits 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Eyes in the Sky: Airborne Sensing and Battle Management in Indo-Pacific and Homeland Defense 
• Hellscape for Taiwan: Rethinking Asymmetric Defense 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Putin’s Legacy: Nations of Widows and Orphans 
• Ukraine 2036: How Today’s Investments Will Shape Tomorrow’s Security 

 Center for Global Security Research

• On Theories of Change: Rethinking the Ban Treaty and Disarmament Strategies 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Implementation Opinions on the “AI + Manufacturing” Special Initiative 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 372: Environmental Entry Points for Mediation 
• No. 373: Belarus in the Shadow of Russia’s War in Ukraine 
• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 334: Teachers and the Future of Russian Education 
• No. 335: The Limits of Economic Adaptation 
• No. 336: Nuclear Arms 

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Breaking the Double Bind: U.S. Defense Strategy and Multi-Theater Deterrence 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Assessing Xi’s Unprecedented Purges of China’s Military: Key Developments and Potential Implications 
• The Geopolitics of Russia’s Civil Nuclear Exports Four Years into the War 
• Lessons from the Manila Strategy Forum 
• A National Asset:  The Colorado Quantum Ecosystem  
• The Power of Innovation: The Strategic Value of China’s High-Tech Drive 
• Risk Beneath the Waves: Safeguarding Subsea Cables for a Secure Global Network 
• Russia-Ukraine War in 10 Charts 
• The Russia-Ukraine War and Global Food Security: Impacts Four Years Later 
• The United States–Republic of Korea Alliance: Strengthening Extended Nuclear Deterrence in a Shifting Strategic Landscape 

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Inhibiting Information Exports: Restricting International Travel After Deemed Export Violations 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• The ECB's Bid to Strengthen the Euro's Global Role 
• EU-UK Relations: Will 2026 Be the Year to Reset the Reset? 
• Europe’s future: Grounds for hope? - Annual report 2025 
• Four Years Since Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Four Lessons for European leaders 
• The Mercosur Deal Tests Europe's Geoeconomic Ambition 

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• Mass Detentions, Executions, and the Glorification of Violence: How the RSF Seized El Fasher 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• AI National Security Scenarios 
• AI’s Global South Pivot: Equity, Ethics and Ecology 
• Artificial Intelligence, the Future of War and International Politics 
• Cross-Border Data Transfer Regimes: Current Landscape and Outlook Ahead 
• From Trolls to Generative AI: Russia’s Disinformation Evolution 
• Transnational Repression in an Age of Upheaval: Global Policy Challenges for Canada 
• Waterloo Security Dialogue 2025: Fostering a National Culture of Cybersecurity 
• Why Africa Should Lead on Governing Global Tech Giants 

 Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS)

• The Struggle for the City: Urban Recovery and Dispossession in Mosul and Damascus 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Americans See Congress as Weak on Foreign Policy Compared to the President 

 Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

• Operation Midway Blitz:  Impact of Federal Immigration Surge on Chicago 
• When Law Enforcement Looks Like Occupation:  How Federal Immigration Surge in Operation Midway Blitz Impacts Chicago 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power Competition 
• PLA Reorganizes Space Information Support and Assurance Mission 

 Cisco

• 2026 State of Industrial AI Report 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace? 
• Behind the Ballots and the Bluster:  Decoding Votes on Ukraine Resolutions at the UN 
• From Common Worries to Digital Commons: How Europe Can Stop Renting Clouds and Build Its Own 
• Syria Poll: How Syrians Assess Their Lives, Government, and Political Developments 

 College of Europe

• The Quest for Economic Security and Competitiveness: Can the EU Still Effectively Manage the Environment-Trade Nexus? 

 Congress. House. Select Committee on China

• Pulling Latin America into China's Orbit 

 Congress. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee—Minority Staff

• Delayed by Design:  Disaster Survivors Left Behind by DHS Secretary Noem’s $100,000 Approval Policy 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Estimating the Budgetary Cost of U.S. Commitments to the International Monetary Fund 
• Immigrant Earnings Assimilation, 1981–2021 
• The Long-Term Budget Outlook Data: 2026 to 2056 

 Council on Foreign Relations

• After Khamenei: Planning for Iran’s Leadership Transition 
• The Economics of Hosting the Olympic Games 
• Hong Kong’s Freedoms: What China Promised and How It’s Cracking Down 
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) 
• Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels 
• Preventing Renewed Conflict in Colombia 
• The Taliban in Afghanistan 
• U.S.-Cuba Relations Explained 
• What Does the U.S. National Guard Do? 
• What Is Hezbollah? 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Forced Displacement from Ukraine: The Potential Role of Migration in Ukraine's Future Reconstruction 
• Gone with the West: How the Transatlantic Split Helps China and Forces Europe to Rethink Its Indo-Pacific Strategy 
• Military Minerals: Europe's New Defense Industrial Capacities Demand Reliable Supply Chains 
• Resilient Action in Wartime: Diaspora Engagement by Ukrainians in Denmark 
• Rethinking Europe's Approach to a Defiant Sahel 

 Department of Defense/War (DOD)

• Aligning Senior Service College Opportunities With American Values 

 Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

• Operation Enduring Sentinel and Other U.S. Government Activities Related to Afghanistan (OES) 

 Department of State Office of Inspector General

• Lead Inspector General for Operation Enduring Sentinel | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | July 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Reviving Democracies by Reconnecting with Reality, Meaning and Plurality 
• Temporary Protection at a Crossroads: Direct Effect, Social Assistance, and Post-TPD Legal Pathways 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• The Effectiveness of EU Export Bans on Military Goods 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Thinking Enlarged in 2026: Leveraging Perspectives From Future Member States 
• Tracking Progress in the EU’s Simplification Effort 

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

• Practical Guide on Access to the Asylum Procedure 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• The Power of the Few: How Clusters Can Strengthen European Defence 

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Stablecoin Disintermediation 
• Systemic Cyber Risk 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Cyber-Enabled Fraud: Digitalisation and Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing Risks 
• Eritrea's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Latvia's Measures to Counter Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing 
• Targeted Report on Stablecoins and Unhosted Wallets - Peer-to-Peer Transactions 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti) (FIIA)

• China’s Ancient Statecraft and the Future of the Global Order:  Does China Pursue Hegemony or Harmony? 
• Japan and Strategic Connectivity:  Policies, Partners, and Possibilities 
• Nordic Countries and the EU’s External Dimension of Migration:  Aligning on Externalisation, Differing on Funding 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Better Late Than Never, US and Allies Race toward Ukrainian Counter-Shahed Tech 
• Czech President, New Government in Early Power Struggle 
• Four Years of War in Ukraine and Baltic Solidarity 
• From Tehran to Donbas: What the Iran War Means for Russia and Ukraine 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• AI-Amplified Narratives:  Measuring Propaganda in LLM Citations 
• Countering Iran’s Covert Chemical Weapons Program 

 French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) (IFRI)

• Bundeswehr:  From Zeitenwende (Historic Turning Point) to Epochenbruch (Epochal Shift) 
• Financial Tools for Boosting Resilience of CRM [Critical Raw Material] Value Chains and Strategic Stockpiling 
• Germany: The Return of Military Service? 
• Mapping the MilTech War:  Eight Lessons from Ukraine’s Battlefield 
• U.S. Policy Toward Taiwan Beyond Donald Trump:  Mapping the American Stakeholders of U.S.-Taiwan Relations 

 German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

• New Concepts for a New Era of ¬European Security 
• Why “Black Mass” Is Critical:  Germany and Europe Must Reduce Reliance on China for Battery Recycling 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

• Sham Elections amid the War in Myanmar:  Prospects for National Stability and International Cooperation 
• U.S. Defense Policy:  Between Isolationism and the Pursuit of Dominance 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Taiwan’s Push for Societal Resilience:  A Progress Report on Energy, Medical, and Digital Communications Lines of Effort 

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Global Organized Crime Index 2025:  Europe Overview 
• Mapping Drug Markets in West Africa: Impacts, Routes, Trends and Actors 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET) 

• Beyond Extremism: Platform Responses to Online Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence 
• Extremist Content Curation: Moderation Challenges on Pinterest and Means to Move Forward 
• Extremist Nasheeds: Emerging Subcultures and the Cultivation of Radical Online Communities in Southeast Asia 
• From Generative AI to Crypto Exchanges: The Infrastructure Behind the GOYIM Token 
• Group Dynamics in Far-Right Telegram Communities: A (Worthy) Challenge for Radicalisation Research 
• An ‘Ode to Violence’: Extremist Exploitation of Viggle AI 
• Silent Recruitment: Extremist Child Targeting on Messaging Platforms in Indonesia 
• Spain’s New Neo-Nazi Networks: ‘Remigration’ and Radicalisation Online 
• Undermoderated and Overlooked: Arabic Online Content on the Bondi Beach Attack 
• Warning Behaviours for Right-Wing Violent Radicalisation on Online Platforms: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Findings 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Behavioral Health: Reported Funding for COVID-19 and 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 2020-2025 GAO-26-107915 
• COVID-19: Federal Efforts to Support Behavioral Health Programs During the Pandemic GAO-26-107748 
• Cybersecurity Regulations: Additional Industry Perspectives on the Impact, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities of Harmonization GAO-26-108685 
• Defense Industrial Base: DOD Efforts to Develop Domestic Biomanufacturing GAO-26-107797 
• Disaster Assistance: SBA Should Take Steps to Make Data Sharing with IRS More Efficient GAO-26-107682 
• DOD Joint Bases: Actions Needed to Improve Sustainment of Facilities GAO-26-106832 
• Federal Agency Workforce Changes: Update for January to June 2025 GAO-26-108719 
• Federal Workforce Data: Improvements Needed to Increase Transparency of Information on Senior Policy and Supporting Positions GAO-26-108164 
• Military Installations: DOD Should Improve Natural Disaster Cost Tracking and Planning for Resilience Improvements GAO-26-107786 
• Military Readiness: DOD Should Take Further Actions to Address Challenges Across the Air, Sea, Ground, and Space Domains GAO-26-108888 
• Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Needs to Improve the Accuracy of Cost and Schedule Information for Major Projects and Activities GAO-26-107820 
• Personnel Vetting: Leadership Attention Needed to Prioritize System Development and Achieve Reforms GAO-26-108838 
• Protections For Whistleblowers and Others: Selected Agency Actions Regarding Reports of Potential Wrongdoing GAO-26-107650 
• Public Health Preparedness: Improved Coordination Needed for HHS’s Emergency Preparedness Programs GAO-26-107507 
• Nuclear Security Enterprise: Assessments of NNSA Major Projects GAO-26-107777 
• VA Health Care: Recommendations and Observations to Improve Community Care and Support for Caregivers Related to the Dole Act GAO-26-108943 
• Weather Modification: NOAA Should Strengthen Oversight to Ensure Reliable Information GAO-26-108013 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• A European Theory of Victory: Compelling Russia to End the War in Ukraine 
• Reweaving Silk Roads: The Middle Corridor’s Role in EU Economic Security 
• Saudi Arabia’s Mineral Gambit: What the EU Can Learn from Vision 2030 

 Hamilton Project

• Building Pro-Worker AI 

 Henley Putnam University

• Journal of Strategic Security, 2026, v. 19, no. 1 
• Conscripts, Convicts, and Contractors: Ersatz Soldiers and Russia's Total Mobilization Workarounds
• Hypersonic Missiles: Evaluating Modern Warfare in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
• Push and Pull: NATO, EU, and Poland’s Positioning After 2022
• Post-Ukraine Fallout: How Azerbaijan’s Break with Russia Reflects the Strategic Consequences of a Weakened Kremlin
• Russia's Information Warfare in Africa: Influence Operations in the Sahel
• Sino-Indian Competition and Small-State Responses in the Western Indian Ocean: The Cases of the Seychelles and Mauritius
• The Digital Radical: Online Extremism, Propagation, and Terror by Design's Strategic Implications for Homeland Security
• Navigating Power Play: Sri Lanka’s Strategic Role in Indo-Pacific Geopolitics
• A Tilly Comparative Study on State-building in South Vietnam and Afghanistan
• Accurate Reading of the Result of the Security Transfer in Vietnam
• Sheinbaum’s Dilemma: Mexico’s Security Choices After FTO Designation

 Heritage Foundation

• 2026 Index of U.S. Military Strength 
• A Commonsense Plan for Rebuilding America’s Maritime Industry 

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

• China Leadership Monitor, Spring 2026, no. 87 
• Why Is Xi Still Purging His Generals?
• Occidental Fall: Assessing Chinese Views of U.S. Decline
• China’s Economic Involution: State and Business Strategies
• (Mostly) Old Wine in a New Bottle: What is the CCP’s Overall Strategy for Solving the Taiwan Issue in the New Era?
• “The Patient Labor of Assimilation”: China’s Strategies to Create a New “New Territory”
• CLM Insights Interview with Fiona S. Cunningham

 Hoover Institution

• Strategika
• no. 103 - Weapons: Quantity Versus Quality 

 Hudson Institute

• Deploying Digital Wallets in Gaza: An Exploratory Framework to Inform US and Israeli Policy Debate 
• The Economic Case for the US-Israel Partnership 
• Georgia’s Iranian Turn:  Tehran’s Rapid Expansion of Influence in a Once-Committed U.S. Ally 
• The Next 72 Hours in Iran: The Post-Khamenei Order, Command Continuity, and Targeting Strategy 
• Operation Epic Fury: Iran’s Declining Capabilities and Emerging Strategy as the Conflict Nears Its Second Week 
• Targeting Iran: US Objectives and Priorities 
• Why the US and Its Allies Should Follow Israel’s Lead and Recognize Somaliland 

 Human Rights Watch

• After the Storm: Climate Change, Planned Relocation, and People with Disabilities in Siargao, Philippines 
• “Farmers Have No Freedom”: Abuse and Exploitation of Cotton and Wheat Farmers in Uzbekistan 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Alarming Performance of US Advanced Technology Product Trade 
• Internal Value Chains Remain Dependent on China Even as Multinationals Shift Production to America 
• Survey: Most Americans Say Tech Companies Should Be Allowed to Set AI Limits 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

• Dealing With the Artificial General Intelligence Brahmastra 
• High Energy Materials: Contemporary Warfare and India’s Defence Industrial Policy 
• India’s ‘Pacific Islands’ Outreach: Understanding Regional Narratives, Geopolitics & Opportunities 
• India–Saudi Arabia: Evolving Cooperation on Renewable Energy 
• Jordan’s Tightrope Walk: Strategy and Survival in the Israel-Palestine Conflict 
• Mission Sudarshan Chakra and the India–Israel Special Strategic Partnership 
• Strategic Communication, Manufacturing of Narratives and India–ASEAN Relations: A Critical Study of the Framework of ASEAN Media 

 Institute for Defense & Government Advancement (IDGA)

• Breaking Down the Blue UAS List [free but registration required] 
• Embedded AI in Military Drones Is Redefining Autonomy and Operations 

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)      

• Strategic Assessment 2025: Evolving Great Power Competition at Mid-Decade 

 Institute for Science & International Security

• Imagery Update: SPND HQ, aka Nour Site, is Demolished; a New Building is Rising 
• Iran Threat Geiger Counter: A Probabilistic Approach; What is the Probability that Iran Will Build Nuclear Weapons? 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

• Are Research Security Policies in the U.S. Working?  A Case Study on Research Collaborations with PRC Defense Laboratories and U.S. Federally Sponsored Research 
• Changing Geometries: The Rise of a Middle-Power Tech Triangle 
• China’s PLA and Europe’s Supply Chain Trap:  Navigating U.S. Pressure and China’s Influence 
• Gwadar’s Strategic Paradox:  CPEC and China’s Geopolitics of Control by Other Means 
• Taiwan in the Hidden War: The Contest for Technological Sovereignty Against Infiltration 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

• Coordinating Through Chaos: The State of the Islamic State Online in 2026 
• Europe’s Other Battlefields: Foreign Hybrid Threats in the EU 
• Online Othering: Religious and Sectarian Intolerance in Jordan’s Digital Sphere 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• February 26, 2026 - DRC Offensive Kills M23 Leader; Russia Reinforces Sahel 
• March 5, 2026 - Anti-American Protests in Nigeria; US Sanctions Rwanda; Ethiopia Deepens Involvement in Sudan 
• Ethiopia Prepares for War 
• Iran War’s Impact on the Red Sea and Horn of Africa 
• China & Taiwan Update
• February 23, 2026 
• March 1, 2026 
• March 6, 2026 
• Hezbollah’s Limited Options for Supporting Iran
• Iran Update
• February 23, 2026 
• February 24, 2026 
• February 25, 2026 
• February 26, 2026 
• February 27, 2026 
• February 28, 2026 Special Report: US and Israeli Strikes Special Report: US and Israeli Strikes 
• Evening Special Report, February 28, 2026 
• March 1, 2026
• Morning Special Report 
• Evening Special Report  
• March 2, 2026
• Morning Special Report  
• Evening Special Report  
• March 3, 2026
• Morning Special Report  
• Evening Special Report  
• March 4, 2026
• Morning Special Report 
• Evening Special Report  
• March 5, 2026
• Morning Special Report  
• Evening Special Report  
• March 6, 2026
• Morning Special Report  
• Evening Special Report  
• March 7, 2026
• Morning Special Report  
• Evening Special Report  
• March 8, 2026
• Morning Special Report  
• Evening Special Report  
• Korean Peninsula Update
• February 25, 2026 
• March 3, 2026 
• North Korea's 9th Party Congress Signals Confidence in Nuclear Deterrence, Rejects Denuclearization and Inter-Korean Talks 
• Putin's Internet Crackdown Is Rooted in Weakness and a Need to Demand Greater War Sacrifices 
• Russia’s Quest to Intensify the Theater-Wide Battlefield Air Interdiction Campaign Against Ukraine’s Logistics 
• Russian Occupation Update
• February 26, 2026 
• March 5, 2026 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• February 23, 2026 
• February 24, 2026 
• February 25, 2026 
• February 26, 2026 
• February 27, 2026 
• February 28, 2026 
• March 1, 2026
• March 2, 2026 
• March 3, 2026 
• March 4, 2026 
• March 5, 2026 
• March 6, 2026 
• March 7, 2026 
• March 8, 2026 
• March 2026 – Present 
• The West Shouldn’t Play Russia’s Game with Ukrainian Elections 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• The Case for an EU–Indo-Pacific Critical Maritime Infrastructure Partnership 
• How to Build Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century 
• Italy in the Midst of a New Era of Arctic Securitisation 
• Limits and Strengths of Italy’s Balancing Act in the Middle East 
• Taking Multi-domain Operations from Theory to Practice 
• Trump’s Imperial Strategy towards China Meets Meloni’s Indo-Mediterranean Initiative 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Four Years of Voice of Khurasan: Propaganda Trends & Practitioner Lessons 
• More of the Same. Russia’s Crime-Terror Nexus: Criminality as a Tool of Hybrid Warfare Revisited 

 International Crisis Group

• Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tigray:  A Powder Keg in the Horn of Africa 
• Pakistan:  Responding to the Militant Surge on the Afghan Border 
• Understanding JNIM’s Expansion Beyond the Sahel 

 International Center for Defense and Security (ICDS)

• Confronting the Russian Hydra:  Continuity and Innovation in the Grey Zone 
• Japan and Strategic Connectivity:  Policies, Partners, and Possibilities  
• Shielding the Skies:  European Ballistic Missile Defense 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Building Blocks:  Enhancing Southeast Asia’s Crisis-response Architecture 
• Charting China: China’s Consumption Problem  
• Contingent Capabilities:  Southeast Asia’s Emerging Anti-access Environment 
• Japan’s Emerging ‘Counterstrike’ Missile Posture 
• The US-Israel Campaign in Iran 

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

• Clash or Convergence of Equities?: Exploring Overlap Between Russia and China in Africa 
• Communicative Deterrence: A Theoretical Concept for Deterrence in the Information Environment 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, February 20, 2026, v. 26, no. 4 
• Technical Analysis Reveals Connected Smart TV Security Risks
• PLA Reorganizes Space Information Support and Assurance Mission
• The Low-Altitude Economy’s Great Leap Upward
• Recent ILD Activity Suggests Expanded Mandate
• Terrorism Monitor February 27, 2026, v. 24, no. 4 
• Regional Interventions Fail to Contain M23 in Eastern Congo
• Security Risks of Centralized Satellite Internet in Junta-Led Sahel States
• Impact of Turkish-PKK Peace Process on Iraqi Yezidis
• Caucasian Foreign Fighters Confirmed in ISWAP’s Ranks in Nigeria

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

• Shields of Achilles and David:  A Greece–Israel Defense Architecture 

 Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

• A Roadmap for Safety: New Policies to Reduce Gun Violence in Maryland 

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• Fading into the Background: From Risk Awareness to Technological Intuition 

 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• On Theories of Change: Rethinking the Ban Treaty and Disarmament Strategies 

 Marine Corps University Press

• China Military Studies Review, 2026, v. 2
• Should Modern Western Militaries Have Political Commissars? 

 Mediazona

• Russian Losses in the War with Ukraine 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Building Refugee-Inclusive Labor Mobility Pathways: A Visa Evaluation Framework 

 Mitchell Institute

• China Airpower Tracker 

 Morningstar

• Geopolitical Shock in the Gulf Raises Underwriting Volatility Across Insurance Lines 

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

• Sociocultural Dynamics of the Defense Wargaming Community of Practice 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• No Extension of the New START Treaty?  Trump Made the Right Decision 
• On Deterrence, Defense and Arms Control: In Honor of Colin S. Gray 

 NATO Defense College

• A New Face of War - Russian Military Strategy Post-Ukraine 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• China Maritime Report #51: The Seafarer Profession in Contemporary China  
• CMSI Note 20: Flying Higher and Higher: VADM Cui Yuzhong - Moving Up in Complex Times 
• CMSI Translations #27: What is the Significance of the PLAN Type 055 Destroyer Zunyi Task Force's Distant Deployment to Australia? 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• International Law Studies, 2026, v. 108  
• Concurrent Regimes for the Concept of “Common Heritage” in Seabed Mining 
• AI Warfare and the Law [from 2024 but adding due to the renewed relevance] 
• International Law Studies, 2026, v. 107 [Artificial Intelligence, War, and International Law] 
• Artificial Intelligence in the Prosecution of International Crimes 
• “I Plead Ignorance”: Autonomous Weapons and Criminal Liability for Not Knowing the Knowable 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• Attribution Warfare: How the Woke Left, Fake MAGA and the IRGC Reframed Iran’s Massacre as a Foreign Coup 

 New America

• Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy:  Forecasting Security Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N) 

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• Japan and Strategic Connectivity: Policies, Partners, and Possibilities 

 Observer Research Foundation

• China’s Expanding Nuclear Capabilities: Implications for India’s Response 
• Climate-Resilient Cities and Budget 2026–27: Milestones, Misses, and the Road to Viksit Bharat 2047 
• Delhi, Dogs, and Deep Ecology: Managing Trans-Species Coexistence in Urban Areas 
• From Loss to Leverage: Reframing India’s Strategy on International Student Migration 
• Japan’s New Africa Playbook  
• Mapping Energy Landscapes in the Gulf: Systems, Policies, and Transition Pathways 
• Mapping Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Energy Transition: Capital, Technology, and Diplomacy 
• Trade and Environment: The Policy Interplay 

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

• The Case of Greenland: Peace and Security in the Arctic 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• "Bankability" of Critical Minerals is in the Eye of Three Beholders 
• Is This Farewell to MFN, the Non-Discrimination Principle of the World Trading System? 
• Latin America in a Vise: The “Trump Corollary” vs. China’s 2025 Policy Paper 
• Prospects for Global Imbalances in 2026 and Beyond:  Another China Shock? 

 Pew Research Center

• 7 facts about Iranians in the U.S. 
• 8 facts about Americans and TikTok 
• About a Third of UN Member Countries Have Ever Had a Woman Leader 
• How Teens Use and View AI 
• State of the Union 2026: Where Americans Stand on Key Issues Facing the Nation 
• What Makes People Proud of Their Country? 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Are Qatar and Saudi Arabia Reassessing Their Reliance on the U.S.? 
• A U.S. Framework for Baltic Security and Russia Policy  

 RAND Corporation

• Assessing the Practical Feasibility of the Clader-Jacobs-Sprouse Quantum Algorithm for Calculating Radar Cross Sections 
• Decisive Economic Advantage:  Modeling the Transition from Temporary First-Mover Leads to Economic Dominance in Artificial General Intelligence 
• The Defense Contract Management Agency’s Resource Workload Management System:  A Basis for Enhanced Warfighter Support 
• The Geopolitics of AGI: How Might Advanced AI Reshape Global Politics and Security? [video] 
• Improving Diffusion of Clinical Care Innovations in Public Health Emergencies
• 4 Things State and Local Public Health Officials Can Do 
• 5 Things Emergency Department and Health System Leaders Can Do 
• 5 Things Influential Emergency Department Clinicians on Digital Media Can Do 
• 6 Things Frontline Emergency Department Clinicians Can Do 
• 6 Things Journal and Preprint Editors Can Do 
• 7 Things Leaders of Professional Societies Can Do 
• The People’s Liberation Army’s Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Highlighting Integration as Key to “Intelligentization” Goals 
• Public Opinion on Legalizing Psychedelics 
• Pursuing Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Gaza:  A Critical Pathway to a Durable Peace 
• Tactical Will to Fight Assessment Guide:  A How-To Manual for Conducting Tactical Will to Fight Assessments 
• Understanding China’s National Security Decisionmaking:  A Primer for U.S. Policymakers 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Conventional Prompt Strike in European Military Power 
• Deputising UK Counter-Cybercrime Operations 
• Middle Powers Must Win the AI Deployment Race 
• Pharos Report No. 4 – Assessing the Impact of Ransomware Interventions and Countermeasures: A Framework 
• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in the Crypto Industry 
• Strengthening UK–South Korea Cyber Security Cooperation 

 The Sentry

• Dubai Properties Linked to Hemedti 
• Libya’s Kleptocratic Boom 

 Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

• How Can AI Support Language Digitization and Digital Inclusion? 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• The Unfulfilled European Zeitenwende on Russia: Where are We Four Years After the Large-Scale Invasion? 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• End of Mission: Reinventing Closure and Transition Processes in EU Civilian CSDP 

 Swedish Defence Research Agency

• EU Additive Manufacturing Policies Amid Strategic Competition 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

• South Korea’s Foreign Policy After Regime Change: The Rise of Pragmatic Diplomacy 

 Takshashila Institution

• A Strategic Assessment of Technology Denial Regimes 
• State of AI Governance, 2025 (67 slides) 

 Taxpayers for Common Sense 

• Backdoor Earmarks in the FY2026 Pentagon Budget 

 Taylor & Francis 

• African Security
• Meta-Colonial Lingers in African and International Security Politics: Societal (In)Security in Sudan [open access article] 
• Civil Wars
• Even Better Than the Real Thing? Measuring the Multidimensional Reintegration of Graduated Ex-Combatants in Colombia [open access article] 
• Conflict, Security & Development
• Agentive Minorities: Place-Memory, Identity and Ontological Security in Post-War Sri Lanka [open access article] 
• Empirical Evidence of Direct and Indirect Relations Between Environmental Pressure and Conflict  [open access article] 
• Critical Studies on Terrorism
• The Politics of “Political Violence”: Terrorism, Violence and the Political  [open access article] 
• Defense & Security Analysis
• The Defence Economics of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Classification and Applications [open access article] 
• Understanding the Factors Facilitating Pro-Russian Disinformation in Slovakia: A Qualitative Case Study of Expert Perspectives  [open access article] 
• Ethics & Global Politics
• Migration and the Shared World: A Defense of Rights of Entry for Cultural Migrants [open access article] 
• Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Africa’s Clicks to Faith: Digital Religious Practices Among Transnational Nigerian and Zimbabwean Youth in the Diaspora [open access article] 
• Afterlives of Decolonisation: The Racialisation of West and Central African Migrants in Contemporary Algeria [open access article] 
• Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Attitudes in Sweden: Patterns of Associations, Attitudinal Profiles, and the Role of Institutional Trust [open access article] 
• Compelled Exile Performances: The Precarity-Performance-Repression Dynamic for Exile Activists from Bhutan [open access article] 
• Disinformation as Repression Signaling: The Cost of Dissent in Russia  [open access article] 
• Navigating Continuity and Change: A Multi-Scalar Analysis of Religion and Spirituality Among African Youth in the UK [open access article] 
• Negotiating the Present, Facing the Past: Postcolonial Politics and Transnational Youth Experiences in South Africa [open access article] 
• Geopolitics
• The United States, China, and Strategic Technologies: Domestic Coalitions, Foreign Policy, and Multilateral Cooperation in the Biden Era [open access article]  
• Global Change, Peace & Security
• Reflecting on the Methodological, Ethical, and Epistemic Challenges of Researching Drones in African Battlespaces [open access article] 
• Journal of Military Ethics
• Caritas Pacem Causat: How Can Virtues Serve Peace? [open access article] 
• Growing Autonomy and the Politics of Moral Responsibility for Military Action  [open access article] 
• Journal of Risk Research
• Generative AI for Enhanced Risk Management in SMEs [open access article] 
• Hazard Versus Risk: Clarifying Concepts and Management Implications – Insights from the Bovaer Controversy [open access article] 
• Policing and Society
• Policing the Partnership: Structural Change, Organisational Legitimacy and Police Evaluations of Probation in Public Protection [open access article] 
• Security Studies
• Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other [open access article] 
• Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting [open access article] 
• Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy [open access article] 
• Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Democratic Backsliding in Mauritania: Challenges and Trends 
• The First Amendment Promise of Deliberative Technology: Reviving Assembly and Petition to Modernize the US Congress 
• Iraq’s Precarious Political System: Consociationalism and Permanent Crisis 
• Lebanon’s Democratization: The Impasse of Political Parties Reform 
• A New Syria in a ‘New Middle East’: Challenges and Opportunities for Democratization 
• On the Erosion of Tunisia’s Once-Promising Democratisation Experiment 
• Yemen: An Aborted Democratic Dream 

 UK Ministry of Defence

• Open Call for Evidence:  Review of MOD Legislation Governing Autonomous Systems 
• Veterans Strategy 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Cyber Stability Conference 2025: Crisis Averted: Cyber Resilience in Action 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• World Drug Report 2019 

 UN Ukraine

• Updated Ukraine Recovery and Reconstruction Needs Assessment 

 US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• Protecting Americans from China-Linked Scam Centers: An Update on Emerging Trends 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• By the Numbers | How Do the New Section 122 Tariffs Compare to IEEPA Tariffs? 
• Grey-Zone Games: Lessons from the 2025 Australia-Japan-United States Simulation  
• What’s in Trump’s New National Defense Strategy?

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Deterrence and Escalation Dynamics with Iran:  Insights from Four Decades of Conflict and a Twelve-Day War 

 White House

• President Trump's Cyberstrategy for America

World Bank

• World Development Report 2025: Standards for Development