Submissions from 2026
Synthesized Command & Control: A new way human choices can guide AI warfighting, Elise Annett and James Giordano
How AI Can Help Enforce the Biological Weapons Convention, Elise Annett, James Giordano, and Brendan Melley
A Framework for Biological Weapons Deterrence, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Breaking (Bad) Biotech — Revisiting the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Authors, James Giordano
Controlling Command: Is AI Capturing the Ethics of War?, James Giordano and Elise Annett
Controlling Command: Is AI Capturing the Ethics of War?, James Giordano and Elise Annett
The Arctic is a Strategic Distraction, T.X. Hammes
Understanding Space Frontier Areas: Strategy in Cislunar Space and Beyond, Todd W. Pennington
Xi’s military purges will make him wary of invading Taiwan, Phillip C. Saunders
Targets, Treaties, and Trade Secrets: Understanding Space Hybrid Architecture’s Legal Challenges, Kim Sloan and Todd W. Pennington
Beyond the Peninsula: What OPCON Transfer Means for the Indo-Pacific, Clint Work
The Danger in the Middle: Will Xi’s Purges Increase the Risk of War?, Joel Wuthnow
Why Is Xi Still Purging His Generals?, Joel Wuthnow
Submissions from 2025
Re-constructing and Construing the Warfighter: The Intersection of Bioengineering and Identity in Neurotechnologically Enhanced Military Personnel, Elise Annett, John R. Shook, and James Giordano
Super Soldiers or Social Burden? Ethical Exploration of the Benefits and Costs of Military Bioenhancement, Elise Annett, John R. Shook, and James Giordano
Expendable Drones: Appreciating the Evolving Technology – and Character – of War, John Bitterman, Elise Annett, and James Giordano
A Better Way to Talk About Risk, Kim Cragin
Foreign Terrorist Fighters: A Threat in Stasis, Kim Cragin
Drones and Biotechnological Weaponry: Emerging Risks, Strategic Threats, and Viable Readiness, Diane DiEuliis and James Giordano
Drones and Biotechnological Weaponry: Emerging Risks, Strategic Threats, and Viable Readiness, Diane DiEuliis and James Giordano
The Challenge of a Rising, Nuclear-Armed China, Kathleen Ellis
China's Cockpit Advances Pose Challenges for U.S. Combat Pilots, James Giordano
Winning the Future: The U.S. Military’s Need for Technological Dominance and Defined Strategic Vision, James Giordano
Drone Delivery of Bioweapons: Responsibilities for Force Readiness, James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis
Dual use and gain-of-function research: a significant endeavor with biosecurity imperatives, James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis
Insect-Sized Microdrones: A Tiny Vector for Big Biothreats, James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis
Assessing Anomalous Health Incidents Of “Havana Syndrome”: Potential Utility - And Issues - Of Using Modular Integrated Artificial Intelligence, James Giordano, Diane DiEuliis, Ema Fitzgerald, Samaira Gautam, Aery Kim, Ashwika Mattam, Krishiv Naik, Yostina Shenouda, Tadas Simone, and Akhi Thangavelu
China’s exploitation of overseas ports and bases, T.X. Hammes
Rising Dominance of the Tactical Defense, T.X. Hammes
We Can’t Buy Our Way Out: It’s Time to Think Differently, T.X. Hammes
Build Containerized Missile Ships for Rapid and Affordable Fleet Growth, T.X. Hammes and R. Robinson Harris
Warship Weapons for Merchant Ship Platforms, T.X. Hammes and R. Robinson Harris
Russia Is Losing Its Near Abroad, Jeffrey Mankoff
Strategic Ambiguity: Erdoğan’s Turkey in a Multipolar World, Jeffrey Mankoff
The Imperial Trap: Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Lessons of Failed Conquests, Jeffrey Mankoff
With the Armenia-Azerbaijan Deal, It’s a New Era in the Caucasus, Jeffrey Mankoff
The other space control: who does what in the national security space enterprise, Todd W. Pennington
China’s ‘near space’ legal warfare, Todd W. Pennington and Emmy Kanarowski
Iran’s Strategic Crossroads: Options Beyond the Axis?, Mahsa Rouhi
China’s Military Diplomacy in the New Era, Phillip C. Saunders and Melodie Ha
Chinese Military Diplomacy, Phillip C. Saunders and Melodie Ha
Xi Can’t Trust His Own Military, Phillip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow
The German Defense-Industrial Zeitenwende: Implications for Transatlantic Security, Brett Swaney
Can Seoul Take the Lead & The Alliance Expand Its Aperture?, Clint Work
The South Korea-US Alliance Is Due for an Overhaul, Clint Work
The Variables of OPCON: The ‘Control Rod’ Logic in Today’s ROK-US Alliance, Clint Work
The Variables of OPCON: The History of the ‘Control Rod’ Logic, Clint Work
The Variables of OPCON: The Sovereignty Narrative, Clint Work
What Would OPCON Transfer Mean for the UN Command in Korea?, Clint Work
How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan, Joel Wuthnow
Taming the Hegemon: Chinese Thinking on Countering U.S. Military Intervention in Asia, Joel Wuthnow
The Greatest Danger in the Taiwan Strait, Joel Wuthnow
Submissions from 2024
Implementing the Chairman's Guidance on Experiential Learning in PME Classrooms, Justin Anderson and Paige P. Price
Confronting Irregular Warfare in the South China Sea: Lessons Learned from Vietnam, Kim Cragin
Taking Stock of the Islamic State, Kim Cragin
Bolstering Biosecurity Amid the Biotechnology Revolution, Diane DiEuliis
Safely balancing a double-edged blade: identifying and mitigating emerging biosecurity risks in precision medicine, Diane DiEuliis and James Giordano
Chem-bio, data and cyberscience and technology in deterrence operations, James Giordano
Directed Energy Remains Key Suspect Behind Havana Syndrome, James Giordano
Closed-Loop Neuronal-Computational Systems: Potentials And Problems, Hannah Kennedy, Anagha Hamsala, Gwen Riley, Katherine Mock, Sara Fotoohi, Jotroop Kaur, Denice Rosario, Leilani Renteria, John R. Shook, and James Giordano
Forward Persistence in Great Power Cyber Competition, Thomas F. Lynch III
Lessons and Legacies of the War in Ukraine: Conference Report, Jeffrey Mankoff
Prisoner of the Caucasus?, Jeffrey Mankoff
China’s Forever War: What If a Taiwan Invasion Fails?, Joel Wuthnow
Submissions from 2023
Private-sector research could pose a pandemic risk. Here’s what to do about it, Gerald L. Epstein
COMMENTARY: Opening the Replicator Program’s Pandora’s Box, James Giordano
Responding to Future Pandemics: Biosecurity Implications and Defense Considerations, James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis
Discerning the Drivers of China’s Nuclear Force Development: Models, Indicators, and Data, David C. Logan and Phillip C. Saunders
2023 Biodefense Posture Review, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction
China's Indo-Pacific Folly, Andrew Taffer and David Wallsh
Why Xi Jinping Doesn't Trust His Own Military, Joel Wuthnow
Submissions from 2022
Allied Assurance and Integrated Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, Justin Anderson
Priorities for NATO Partnerships in an Era of Strategic Competition, Lisa Aronsson and Brett Swaney
Russia's Cold War Perspective on Missile Defense in Europe, John P. Caves Jr. and M. Elaine Bunn
Perspective: The Rapidly Expanding Need for Biosecurity by Design, Diane DiEuliis and James Giordano
Regarding and Reducing Risks of the Biotechnology Revolution, Diane DiEuliis and James Giordano
Dangerous Alliances: Russia’s Strategic Inroads in Latin America, Douglas Farah and Marianne Richardson
Gangs No Longer: Reassessing Transnational Armed Groups in the Western Hemisphere, Douglas Farah and Marianne Richardson
Addressing the Threats of Emerging Biotechnologies, James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis
Averting Escalation and Avoiding War: Lessons from the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, Kristen Gunness and Phillip C. Saunders
Pushing Back Against China's New Normal in the Taiwan Strait, Bonny Lin and Joel Wuthnow
The Inevitable U.S. Return and the Future of Great Power Competition in South Asia, Thomas F. Lynch
The PLA’s Strategic Support Force and AI Innovation, Amy Nelson and Gerald L. Epstein
Gray Dragons: Assessing China’s Senior Military Leadership, Joel Wuthnow
Rightsizing Chinese Military Lessons from Ukraine, Joel Wuthnow
Xi's New Central Military Commission: A War Council for Taiwan?, Joel Wuthnow
China’s military strategy for a ‘new era’: Some change, more continuity, and tantalizing hints, Joel Wuthnow and M. Taylor Fravel
Submissions from 2021
Arms Control in Today’s (Dis)Information Environment Part II, Justin Anderson
Deterring, Countering, and Defeating Conventional-Nuclear Integration, Justin Anderson and James R. McCue
China’s Hypersonic Weapons, Paul I. Bernstein and Dain Hancock
Biodefense and the return to great-power competition, Gerald L. Epstein
The PRC’s Changing Strategic Priorities in Latin America: From Soft Power to Sharp Power Competition, Douglas Farah and Marianne Richardson
Iran in Latin America: Malign Alliances, “Super Spreaders,” and Alternative Narratives, Douglas Farah and Alexa Tavarez
A Year Of Working Intentionally, Sarah Jacobs Gamberini
(Dis)trust and verify?: Arms Control in Today’s (Dis)Information Environment Part I, Sarah Jacobs Gamberini
Quantum Sensing's Potential Impacts on Strategic Deterrence and Modern Warfare, Sarah Jacobs Gamberini and Lawrence Rubin
Baltics Left of Bang: The Southern Shore, Marcel Hadeed, Mariusz Kaminski, Monika Sus, Brett Swaney, and Amelie Theussen
