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31 May 2021

China’s Cyber-Influence Operations

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  Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)  The digital era has transformed the way we communicate. Using social media like Facebook and Instagram, an...

China’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities: An Overview

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  Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) Since China first conducted a nuclear weapon test in 1964, its nuclear doctrine has remained unchanged and ...

India Won't Like This: Why China Wants Mortar Weapons for Mountainous Regions

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by Kris Osborn Source Link In what could be seen as a massive modernization push and military build-up, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army...

Key Decision Point Coming for the Panama Canal

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Source Link The Panama Canal sits at the nexus of international political and economic concerns. Following the Canal’s expansion in 2016, th...

What I Learned From the PLA’s Latest Strategy Textbook

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By Joel Wuthnow Source Link Introduction In August 2020, China’s National Defense University (NDU) released a revised version of its Science...

China Is Training to Fire Artillery at 'High Altitudes'. Why Bother?

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by Kris Osborn Source Link The People’s Liberation Army is firing off towed artillery in the plateau regions of Western China to prepare for...

A 'People's War': China's Plan To Dominate The South China Sea?

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by James Holmes Source Link Here's What You Need to Remember: Party leaders have regaled the populace with how they will use seagoing fo...

Deterrence, Not Domination: How to Deal with a Rising China

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by John Isaacs Source Link Many American leaders have expressed concern over great power competition between the United States and China, of...

China's Disappeared Uyghurs: What Satellite Images Reveal

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Source Link One million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, maybe more, have vanished into a sprawling network of camps and prisons in Chin...

China, the United States, and the Gaza Crisis: Israel for Xinjiang?

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Eyal Propper Source Link In the course of the recent campaign against Hamas, Israel found itself dragged into a greater struggle – between ...

How Israel Lost the Culture War

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By Alia Brahimi Source Link After accepting an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed “an...

Gen Z Reclaims the Palestinian Cause

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By Dalia Hatuqa Source Link RAMALLAH, West Bank—As Israel pummeled Gaza with airstrikes for 11 days before a cease-fire went into effect on ...

Learn From Gaza, Prepare For Hezbollah

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By RICHARD NATONSKI and JONATHAN RUHE Source Link With a ceasefire announced in Gaza , it’s crucial to apply the lessons-learned to a lik...

IN AFRICA, GREAT POWER COMPETITION REQUIRES A GREAT STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION OPERATIONS

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Tara Heidger and Victor Garcia   Source Link Editor’s note: This article is the eleventh in a series, “Full-Spectrum: Capabilities and Auth...

Operating in the shadows: US Cyber Command

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Source Link If the Pentagon's Cyber Command launches an online attack and nobody knows about it, does it deter anyone? Many Americans ar...

The Art of War in the Age of Peace

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by Michael O'Hanlon  Source Link As President Joe Biden and his team settle into their new jobs, how should they view the national secur...

The U.S. Can Wage War By Remote Control But It Can't Win Them

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by James Holmes Source Link Here's What You Need to Remember: Remote war is remote in more than the technical sense that operators may h...

Could U.S. Military Lasers Soon Disable Enemy Missiles?

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by Sebastien Roblin Source Link After decades of being confined to experimental prototypes and Star Wars movies, laser weapon s today are...

The Real Significance of the Biden-Putin Summit in Geneva

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by Mark Episkopos Source Link President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16. The Whi...

Pentagon Studying How Counterterrorism Fits Into Great Power Competition

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BY JACQUELINE FELDSCHER Source Link The Pentagon is looking at how counterterrorism capabilities honed over the past two decades fighting in...

Biden Is Continuing the Trump Administration’s Revised Stance on Tibet

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By Kelsang Dolma Source Link History is proverbially written by the victors. When it comes to the United States’ position on Tibet, that is ...

Biden’s Dangerous, Risk-Averse Inaction on North Korea

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Van Jackson  Source Link The Biden administration is using an outdated script to justify doing very little about North Korea. As a consequen...

Terrorism Monitor

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May 7, 2021, v. 19, no. 9 Maximum Pressure: Turkey’s Anti-PKK Counter-Terrorism Campaigns in Northern Iraq Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan: Is Ch...

The Key to Future Readiness Is Big Data

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Pam Braden & Mike Schwartz Source Link In the quest for military readiness, are defense decision makers over-investing in “ready to figh...

How the Military Might Expand Its Cyber Skills

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by James Ryseff Source Link As software has become an ever more integral part of life, national security experts have come to recognize that...

Analyzing a More Resilient National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capability

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by Richard Mason , James Bonomo , Tim Conley , Ryan Consaul , David R. Frelinger , David A. Galvan , Dahlia Anne Goldfeld , Scott A. Grossma...

RAND's Scalable Warning and Resilience Model (SWARM)

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by Bilyana Lilly, Adam S. Moore, Quentin E. Hodgson, Daniel Weishoff Source Link Research Questions How can organizations proactively protec...

Air Force held first information warfare test exercises

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Mark Pomerleau Source Link WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force conducted its first information warfare-focused exercises to test the concept at ...

Responsible Space Behavior for the New Space Era

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by Bruce McClintock, Katie Feistel, Douglas C. Ligor, Kathryn O'Connor Source Link Humans have explored and exploited near-earth space f...

What Do We Know About China’s Newest Missiles?

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By MA XIU and PETER W. SINGER Source Link As “great power competition” becomes the lingua franca of American strategy, U.S. policymakers an...
30 May 2021

China’s Cyber-Influence Operations

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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) The digital era has transformed the way we communicate. Using social media like Facebook and Instagram, and s...

Defining China’s Intelligentized Warfare and Role of Artificial Intelligence

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Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd) China feels that U.S. is its main adversary ... China is trying to match U.S. technological capabilities wit...

Don’t Write Off Indian Vaccine Diplomacy Yet

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By Krzysztof Iwanek Source Link The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis. India continues to c...

Operation Guardian of the Walls: Where Was Hezbollah?

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Orna Mizrahi , Yoram Schweitzer Source Link Over the 11 days of Operation Guardian of the Walls, Nasrallah’s attention was focused on Gaza,...

Prospects For Russia’s Policy Towards Afghanistan

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Anna Maria Dyner Arkadiusz Legieć Source Link   During the NATO stabilisation mission, Russia had relatively little ability to influence the...