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Showing posts with label Important Papers. Show all posts

30 July 2026

Australian Army Research Centre

Australian Army Journal, 2026, v. 22 no. 1 
  • Solutions for Scalable Situational Awareness in Remote Autonomous Systems
  • Resilient Supply Chains for Defence Energy Security in the Era of Sustainable Energy Transition
  • The Profession of Arms in an AI-Enabled World
  • Subterranean Information from Gravity
  • The Book That Never Was
  • Examining the Importance of Political Activities of Defence Members to Civil–Military Relations
  • Game Theory for Human–Machine Teaming
  • State of the Army Profession - A Reserve Infantry Perspective

17 July 2026

US Space Command (USSPACECOM)

  • The Silent War Above: Cyberattacks and AI Are Reshaping the Future of Space Conflict
  • Resilient and Reusable: Space Force’s X-37B Spaceplane Spends Years on Cutting-Edge Missions as the CCP Tries to Catch Up
  • Nearing the End: Aging Weather Satellites Making Way for New Spacecraft, International Partnership
  • What’s Next in Military Weather
  • Weapons in Space: Jammers, Lasers and the Contest for Superiority
  • No Surprises: As Space Maneuvers Evolve Into ‘Dogfighting,’ Keeping Track Gets Harder
  • The Physics of Space Warfighting, Hollywood Style with Conflicts Emerging on Orbit, And Accuracy Trending in Sci-Fi, Filmmakers Face a New Reality
  • Mega Moment: Starlink’s 2019 Debut Heralded a New Age of Worldwide Internet Access
  • Inviting Space Commerce into Space Security: A Discussion with the U.S. Space Force Front Door Director on Easing Industry Integration
  • Racing the Clock in Space: How Tactically Responsive Space is Reshaping the U.S. Military’s Strategy on Orbit
  • Counterpunch: More Spacefaring Militaries Work to Defend Assets, Prevent Attacks
  • Space Superiority: A Surge in U.S. Military Satellite Launches and Shift Toward Vast Constellations Signal a New Era of Competition on Orbit

16 July 2026

Perspectives on Terrorism

Perspectives on Terrorism, 2026, v.20, no. 2 

  • Lethal Adaptation or Overpriced Junk? A Practitioner-Informed Assessment of Geospatial-Enabled Threats by Non-State Adversaries
  • Explaining Terrorism in Terms of INUS Conditions
  • Does Pakistan Have a “Madrassah Problem”?
  • Defining Terrorism: Is There Anything New? A Qualitative Analysis of 470 Definitions
  • Referral Pathways and Clinical Profiles among Individuals Involved in Violent Extremism and Violent Nihilism
  • AI as Decision Support in P/CVE Evaluation: Opportunities, Limits, and Risks
  • Bibliography: Legitimisation and Delegitimisation of Terrorism

15 July 2026

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

CTC Sentinel, June 2026, v. 19, no. 6 
  • Standing With Iran: The Integrated Combat Performance of Iraqi Militias During Operation Epic Fury
  • A View from CT Foxhole: Brigadier General Matthew Ross, Director, JIATF-401
  • Remotely Coerced Violence: 764, The Com Network, and the Hybridization of Threats

14 July 2026

Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2026, v. 24, no. 4
  • Counterintelligence for Hybrid Threats in Large-Scale Joint Operations: A Divisional Model from the Australian Defence Force
  • Navies and Underwater Cultural Heritage: Military Legacies, Operational Practice and Shared Responsibility
  • Frozen Fronts and Fragile Lines: Finland 1939–1944 Meets Ukraine 2022–2025
  • They Also Served: Jewish and Oppositional ร‰migrรฉ Neurologists and Psychiatrists in the Armed Forces of North America During & After WWII
  • Heterarchic Strategic Culture and the Resilience of Iran’s Nuclear Program (1957–2025)
  • Military Stalemate and the Sunk Cost Fallacy: How Prior Actions Biased Prospective Decision-making in the First World War

13 July 2026

Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

Cyber Defense Review,  2026, v. 11, no.2
  • A Decade of Cyber Defense Scholarship: The Cyber Defense Review, 2016–2026
  • The Missing Grammar of Cyber Operations: Toward a Theory of Cyber Operational Art
  • Seven Insights from a Cyber Operations Maneuverist
  • Initiative, Not Attrition: Reconceiving Cyber Operations as Maneuver
  • Exhaust, Don’t Deter: Ukraine’s Lessons for Allied Strategy Against Russia in Cyberspace
  • Playing the Future: Insights from Wargaming Cyber Conflict
  • Is Cyberwar War – and Why Might it Matter?
  • Cyber Persistence Theory Is Cyber Praxis
  • Cyber Defense in an Interdependent World: A Critique of Digital Decoupling
  • Seven Cyber Trends Shaping Modern Conflict: Twenty Years and Counting
  • Winning the War, Not Just the Cyber Fight
  • Cyber War Did Not Take Place
  • Accelerating with AI: Cyber Defense at Speed, Scope, Scale
  • Commanding Agentic Forces in Multi-Domain Operations: Mastering Cognitive Convergence and Decision Hand-Off
  • The Agentic Cyber Protection Team: Trading Mass for Mastery in the Algorithmic Battlespace
  • Defense in a Denser Fog of War
  • Forging the Digital Ecosystem for the Arsenal of Freedom
  • A New Era of Army Cyber Transformation
  • Forging Multi-Domain Advantage to Match the Speed of Conflict
  • Leadership Beyond the Easy No: Mastering the Basics and Breaking Constraints in Cyber Defense
  • Protect What Cannot Fail: Operational Resilience for America’s Most Consequential Critical Infrastructure
  • The Invisible Battlefield: Defending Key Terrain in Operational Technology by Leveraging National Laboratories
  • China’s Cyber Explosives are in Place. Where’s our Response?
  • Building Mission Assurance into the Space Defense Industrial Base
  • We Are the Attack Surface: Conway’s Law, the Sociotechnical Layer, and the Resilience the Next Decade Demands
  • Embracing a Whole-of-Nation Approach to the 2026 National Cybersecurity Strategy Inspired by the Manhattan Project
  • Wrong Players, Wrong Game: Rethinking Who Belongs in Cyber
  • A Blueprint for Military-Industrial Partnership: Shared Risk and Unified Cybersecurity as Instruments of National Power
  • Responsible Disclosure in the Age of AI: A Call for Urgent Action
  • 2036 Starts Today: A Call to Action for NATO’s Cyber Future
  • From Zero Trust to Full Trust: Toward the Cyber Defense Innovation Hub Initiative
  • A Decade of Insight, Driven by Necessity: From the Shoddy Cyber Substrate to Great Systems Conflict, and the Alliance That Must Defend What Remains
  • The Futures They See: Cyber Leaders’ Visions of the Next Decade

6 July 2026

Center for Security Studies (CSS)


CSS Policy Brief
  • No. 4: Cognitive Warfare: The Case for Disaggregation
  • No. 3: Playing a ‘Weak Hand’: Russia’s Middle East Policy


5 July 2026

Army University Press

Journal of Military Learning, v. 10, June 2026 
  • Studying the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Undergraduate Research at the U.S. Military Academy
  • Dunning-Kruger Effect: An Adult Learning Framework for Enhancing Metacognitive Aptitude and Reducing Cognitive Bias in the U.S. Army Special Forces

4 July 2026

Air University Press

Strategic Horizons  2026, v. 2, no. 1 

A Vacuum of Strategy: America’s African Retreat and the New Great-Power Contest

Will Libya Ever Be Whole Again? Prospects for Unity and Stability in a Fragmented State

Suppression of Enemy Air Defense: SEAD in Iran’s Defense Doctrine

Reforging the Arsenal of Democracy: The Ukraine Wake-Up Call

China’s Expanding Airpower in the Western Indian Ocean

US–Mongolia Defense Relations: A Strategic Partnership in the Heart of Asia

Missile Defense Reimagined: A Theoretical Examination of the “Golden Dome” Proposal

Continental Defense at a Crossroads: US Strategic Contingency Planning for an Independent Alberta

The Dragon, the Jaguar, and the Eagle: The Rise of China in Mexico and Brazil, a Historical-Comparative Analysis

A Dragon in the Backyard: The People’s Republic of China’s Posture Plans Threaten Atlantic Security

An Officer of the Argentine Air Force in Vietnam

3 July 2026

Air University Press

Strategic Horizons  Fall 2025, v. 1, no. 1 

  • Shadow Wars: Private Military Companies, Great-Power Competition, and the Struggle for Influence in Africa
  • Seychelles at a Crossroads: Democracy, Development, and the Geopolitical Chessboard
  • The Vajra Doctrine: America’s Thunderbolt Strategy in the South Asian Chess Match
  • Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Role Conceptions: Self-Image of Independence in the Face of a Powerful Russia
  • Articulating Smart Power: The Strategic Information Environment of the Northern Sea Route
  • The Battle for Wake Island 2025: A Critical Assessment of Pacific Basing Strategy
  • The Tenth Man: Japan Is the United States’ Next Asian Competitor
  • China and “Deep Bench” Diplomatic Power
  • Geoengineering and Security in the Indo-Pacific: Risks, Governance, and Strategic Imperatives
  • Anticipatory Defense in the Arctic
  • The Cost of Arctic Succession: Russia’s Militarization Demands a NATO Response
  • Proposal for US–Greenland Integration: A Path to the Future
  • Guatemala’s Security Challenges and the Government’s Response
  • Optimizing Drone Selection for Initial Remote Piloting Training: A Multicriteria Decision Analysis Using the SWARA-MOORA-3NAG Method
  • Proposal for the Creation of a Brazilian Space Force
  • Jihad in the Jungle: An Examination of Hezbollah’s Financial Network in the Tri-Border Area
  • The Strategic Importance of an Unlikely Relationship: Paraguay and Taiwan
  • Integrated Deterrence and US Defense Strategy in NATO and AUKUS: An Analysis of Advanced Technologies and Multi-Domain Operations in Alliance Systems
  • A Nuclear Economy: Proliferation Financing and the Fight to Stop Bad Actors

29 May 2026

Jamestown Foundation

 China Brief, May 15, v. 26, no. 10 

A ‘New Beginning’ for Xi’s Assimilationist Agenda
Beijing Entrenches Asymmetric Closed-Door Strategy
PRC–Turkmenistan Gas Ties Hedge Hormuz Risk
PLA Reshapes Military Theory Development System for Future Warfare
Decade of Policy Support Drives Quantum Breakthroughs
New Law Engineers Unity
Blaming ‘Foreign Forces’ Backfires for Beijing
Beijing Reacts to Panama Setbacks
PRC Supplies Solar in the Caribbean

28 May 2026

Military Strategy Magazine, Spring 2026, v. 11, no. 1

 Military Strategy Magazine, Spring 2026, v. 11, no. 1 

On Defense and Offense: Revisiting Clausewitz, Mao Zedong and Thucydides
Beyond Random Acts of Touching: Six Core Pillars on How to Think About Security Cooperation
Can Clausewitz’s “Center of Gravity” Survive the Digital Age?
The Trafalgar Imperative: Why the USAF Must Innovate or Stagnate
Extended Nuclear Deterrence Strategy
Military Leadership In the 18th Century: Lessons for Strategic Leadership, Strategy, and Statesmanship Today

27 May 2026

Parameters, Summer 2026 no. 56, no. 2

 Parameters, Summer 2026 no. 56, no. 2 

The State of the US Army
Fighting for Intelligence in Large-Scale Combat Operations: The Role of the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Battalion–Next
Geopolitical Chessboard: How Vietnam Shapes American-Chinese Competition
Key Themes in Sino-American History
Rethinking Power: E. H. Carr’s Enduring Lessons for Modern Strategists
How Is Going to War Like Buying a Car?: The Bargaining Model of War
A New Security Framework for NATO’s Eastern Flank
Turning Tactical Victories into Strategic Success: Counterinsurgency in the Irish Civil War, 1922–23
Closing the Gap Between Threat and Rival

18 May 2026

Marine Corps University Press

Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Spring 2026, v. 17, no. 1
Forging the Will to Fight: Lessons from the Winter War, 1939–1940
Geoeconomic Analysis of Price of Persistence in the Fight against Terrorism: Financial Flows and the Psychology of Warfare
The Will to Fight: The Most Overused Phrase and Misunderstood Aspect of Warfare
Preventing an Unacknowledged Assumption: Inexhaustible American Will to Fight
Beyond Willingness to Fight: The Individual’s Defense Relationship Theory as a Comprehensive Framework for Citizen Commitment to National Defense and Security—A Review Article
More than Morale: Identity Fusion and the Psychology of the Will to Fight
National Will to Fight in Allied Democracies: A Comparative Enabling-Conditions Assessment
Beyond Break-Falls: MCMAP and the Will to Fight
Becoming, Not Joining: Belongingness as the Core Driver of Will to Fight
The Secret of the Ukrainian Resilience: National Identity and Will to Fight
Fighting for Someone Else

17 May 2026

Jamestown Foundation

China Brief, May 3, 2026, v. 26, no. 9
Great Power Conflict Concerns Spurs Stockpiling
State-Driven Nuclear Expansion is Winning Energy Race
Beijing Argues Japan’s Rearmament is Illegal
‘Fingertip Formalism’ Undermines Digital Governance
New Free Trade Zone Solidifies Eurasian Ties
Takaichi and Japan Resist Chinese Pressure
Terrorism Monitor, May 1, 2026, v. 24, no. 8
Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
TTP and the Escalating Islamabad-Kabul Security Crisis
Lakurawa’s Hybrid Jihadist–Criminal Governance in Northwestern Nigeria
HAYI: Iranian Proxy Targeting Jewish and Israeli Sites in Europe
Terrorism Monitor, April 17, 2026, v. 24, no. 7
‘Unconditional Escalation’ Marks Iran’s Shifting Deterrence Strategy
Outlook for Minority Rebel and Separatist Militants in Iran
Houthis and Al-Qaeda Growing Terror Supply Chain
Potential for Kurdish Militants to Capture Territory in Iran
Nigerian Leaders Resist Iranian Revolutionary

16 May 2026

PRISM, Spring 2026, v. 11, no. 2

 PRISM, Spring 2026, v. 11, no. 2

When States Go Rogue: Criminal Tools in Hybrid Warfare
Agriculture as a Domain of Hybrid Warfare: China’s Strategy and U.S. Security Gaps
Understanding Cognitive Warfare: Beyond Information
Medical Intelligence in Support of Irregular Warfare
Strategic Culture – A Complex Model for a Complex Concept
Maskirovka and the Olympics: The Russian Choice to Initiate Conflict During the Olympic Games
Soft Power by Design: China’s United Front Strategy for Taiwan’s Civil Society in the Age of Irregular Warfare
Countering Hostile Chinese Lawfare: An Irregular Warfare-Based Approach
From Saguntum to Taipei: The Hazards of Strategic Ambiguity
Mapping the BRICS Plus Cryptocurrency Ecosystem: Is the BRICS Plus Bloc Effectively Using Cryptocurrency to Avoid Sanctions?
Equity Chain Mapping: Adapting Counter Threat Finance for Great Power Competition
Shadow Strategy: Air and Space Power in the Gray War
Controlling Command: Is AI Capturing the Ethics of War?
Preparing for Future Wars: Incongruent Beliefs on Autonomous Weapons
Warfare in the Technology Arena: Cost-Imposition and Maneuver in the Electromagnetic Battlespace

20 February 2026

Military Strategy Magazine

 Winter 2026, v. 10, no. 4 

AI Command and Staff—Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming
Attacking Russia’s Center of Gravity: A Clausewitzian Answer
Warfare of Position: When the Decisive Struggle Precedes the First Shot
British Special Forces in the 2030s: UKSF, ‘Special Operations’ and ‘NATO First’
How the Congolese Wazalendo Illustrate the Importance of Strategy
Informational Coercion and the Defense of Democracy

8 February 2026

Jamestown FoundationChina Brief

China Brief
  • January 10, 2025, v. 26, no. 1 
    • Xi Projects Confidence in Shorter New Year’s Speech
    • PLA Justice Mission 2025 Further Rehearses Taiwan Invasion Operations
    • Beijing Accelerates Clearance of ‘Naked Officials’ from Top Ranks
    • Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions
    • CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift
  • January 24, 2025, v. 26, no. 2 
    • Sodium Supply Chain Emerges to Support Lithium Alternatives
    • EMP Weapons Expose PRC Military Vulnerability
    • Pickleball Diplomacy Links U.S. Students to CCP
    • Purges, Training Reform Affected Pressure on Taiwan in 2025

9 October 2025

IJ Infinity Group

Military Strategy Magazine, v. 10, no. 2, Spring 2025 

Civil War Comes to the West, Part II: Strategic Realities

Strategy for a Complex Age: To Frame or Solve?

Political Obedience as a Military Strategic Asset: From Cyrus to the 2023 War in Gaza

A New Fight: Deception, Adaptation, and Regeneration

Distributed Maritime Operations, Logistics, Industry, and American Strategy in Asia

Multi-Dimensional Game-Theory Analysis of North Korean Nuclear Threat

8 October 2025

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)


The Global State of al-Qa`ida 24 Years After 9/11

Feature Commentary: Confronting Cartels: Military Considerations South of the Border

Uzbek Foreign Fighter Groups in the Syrian Jihad: The Evolution of KIB and KTJ from 2011 through 2025

Militant Violence in Jammu and Kashmir Post-Abrogation of Article 370