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Call for Papers: Operation Epic Fury and the Future of Global Energy Security
2026-05-02
Options to Improve the Security Situation in Nigeria
2026-03-20
Options to Counter Islamist Militancy in the Sahel Region
2026-03-07
An Assessment of Human-Technological Teaming Solutions for Intelligence Collection Purposes
2026-02-01
An Assessment of the Impact of Geography in Modern Air Campaigns
2026-01-18
Options for Venezuela to Counter United States Actions in the Caribbean
2026-01-06
Call for Papers: Technological Leadership for National Security
2026-01-04
An Assessment of Adversarial Exploitation of the Seams Between Geographic Combatant Commands
2025-11-21
Options for Continuing to Prepare for a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan in 2028 and Beyond
2025-10-22
Call for Papers: 2028 and Beyond
2025-09-01
An Assessment of Mechanised Forces in the Age of Drones
2025-08-10
An Assessment of North Korea’s Attempts to Destabilize South Korea
2025-07-29
Options to Mitigate Effects from Houthi Attacks on International Trade
2025-07-13
An Assessment on State Sponsorship, Drones and the Expanded Capabilities of Non-State Armed Groups
2025-06-13
An Assessment of the Joint Warfighting Concept’s Limitations in Mexico’s Gray Zone
2025-04-30
Options for Russia Following the Special Military Operation in Ukraine
2025-04-10
Options for Reorganizing Information-centric Organizations
2025-04-03
Options to Respond to Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East
2025-03-26
Options to Combat Human Trafficking Networks in Brazil
2025-03-19
An Assessment of Critical Minerals, Strategic Competition, and Ukraine
2025-03-09
Call for Papers: Joint Warfighting Concept and Future Operating Concepts
2025-03-02
Options to Create a Meaningful U.S. National Security Strategy
2025-02-08
Options to Address the Illicit Trade of Pangolins
2025-02-02
Assessing the Implications of the Fall of Assad on the Rules Based Order
2025-01-26
Options to Respond to the Deposal of Bashar al-Assad by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
2025-01-17
Call for Papers: A new U.S. National Security Strategy
2025-01-05
Announcement: New Editor-in-Chief at Divergent Options
2025-01-01
2025 Call for Papers Topics
2024-12-09
Divergent Options Principal Leadership Turnover Notice
2024-12-01
Options to Increase Recruiter Proficiency Through Human Networking
2024-11-26
Call for Papers: The Role of U.S. Military Forces in Mass Deportations
2024-11-24
An Assessment of the Recruitment Challenges of the U.S. Military After Two Decades of War
2024-11-18
An Assessment of U.S. Political Divisiveness and its Implications for Domestic and International Security
2024-10-21
Call for Papers: Military Recruiting
2024-09-14
Assessing the Stalemate on the Korean Peninsula and its Implications for U.S. Interests
2024-08-05
Assessing the Benefits of Consolidating the U.S. Navy’s Fleets
2024-07-29
Options for Non-Kinetic Interventions to Nigeria’s Security Challenges
2024-07-22
Assessing Strategic Competition, Non-State Armed Groups, and Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Implications for the West and the Rules Based Order
2024-07-15
Call for Papers: Command and Leadership Structures
2024-07-14
An Assessment of the Nuclear Ambiguity Caused by the Islamic Republic of Iran
2024-07-08
U.S. Options to Prioritize Non-Kinetic Competition to Counter the People’s Republic of China
2024-07-01
Options for the U.S. Achieving Carbon Neutrality in the Time of the Global Competition
2024-06-24
Chinese Activities in the South China Sea
2024-06-17
Demolishing the Digital Man: The Case for Using AI to Anticipate Counterarguments
2024-06-10
Assessment of The U.S. Military’s Strategic Dilemma: Overinvestment in Countering a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
2024-06-03
Nagorno-Karabakh Options
2024-05-27
Assessment of Ideological Convergence Between White Supremacist and Islamist Extremists
2024-05-20
Assessing the Integration of Artificial Intelligence into National Security Assessments
2024-05-13
Call for Papers: Maritime Strategy
2024-05-12
Cyber in Area Denial in Littoral Environments
2024-05-06
Using Cyber Operations to Achieve Cognitive Domain Impact
2024-04-29
Assessing the Impact of the Red Sea Crisis on the Rules Based International Order: Implications for the Indo-Pacific
2024-04-22
Virtual Frontlines: The Cognitive Warfare Implications of Hackable AR Technology in Military Operations
2024-04-15
Chinese Activities in Kiribati
2024-04-08
Options for Reintegrating Irregular Forces into Stability Operations During Large-Scale Combat Operations
2024-04-01
The Options Remaining for Israel to Defeat Hamas
2024-03-25
Options for Japan to Strengthen its Energy Security Through Alternatives to Middle East Oil
2024-03-18
U.S. Options for a Potential Invasion of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China
2024-03-11
Assessing the Benefits of a United States Foreign Legion
2024-03-04
Call for Papers Team-Up with Blogs of War: An Artificial Intelligence Wrote This Article
2024-03-03
Advising the Next President of the United States: Options for Countering Russian Disinformation
2024-02-26
The New Memorandum of Understanding to Ensure a Qualitative Military Edge for Israel in 2028
2024-02-19
Options to Address Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Increasingly Hostile Ballistic Missile Tests Towards Japan
2024-02-12
January 2024 Assessment of the Iranian Missile Arsenal and Regional Responses
2024-02-05
Options for a Post-War Future for Gaza
2024-01-29
Options for the United States regarding Piratical Attacks against Commercial Shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
2024-01-08
Call for Papers: Advising the Next President of the United States of America
2024-01-01
Call for Papers: Nuclear Threats
2023-11-12
Writing Contest Results – The Taiwan Offensive
2023-10-09
Assessment of the People’s Republic of China’s United Front Work Department, its Impact on Taiwan’s National Security, and Strategies to Combat Foreign Interference
2023-08-28
Assessing the People’s Republic of China’s Current and Future Offensive Operations Against the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the Context of China’s International Ambitions
2023-08-21
Examining Disaster Aid as Cover for a Chinese Fait Accompli Against Taiwan
2023-08-14
Options for the United States to Counter China’s Multi-Pronged Offensives in Taiwan
2023-08-07
Assessing the People’s Republic of China’s Multiple Ongoing Offensives Against Taiwan
2023-07-10
Assessing the Benefits of the U.S. Army Divesting in Armored Brigade Combat Teams and Investing in Security Force Assistance Brigades
2023-07-03
Assessing U.S. 1990s – 2000s China Trade Policy’s Effects on U.S. National Security
2023-06-05
Assessing the People’s Republic of China’s Current Multi-Decade Offensive Against Taiwan
2023-05-29
Options for Taiwan’s Response to a Conventional Missile Strike by the People’s Republic of China
2023-05-22
Call for Papers: Investing and Divesting
2023-05-14
Assessing Guatemalan Military Relationships
2023-04-24
Assessing the National Guard State Partnership Program and Possible Impact on U.S./Latin America Relations: Is the State Partnership Program Being Leveraged to Its Fullest Potential?
2023-03-13
Call for Papers: Security Cooperation
2023-03-12
Options for the United States to Arm Anti-Assad Factions in Syria with Defensive Weapons
2023-03-06
Writing Contest: The Taiwan Offensive
2023-02-12
Assessing the Need for the Battlefield Scavenger
2023-01-30
Assessing Terrorism and Artificial Intelligence in 2050
2023-01-09
Call for Papers: Ukraine in 2023
2023-01-01
Assessing The Network-State in 2050
2022-12-26
Assessing “Reflections on Net Assessment” by Andrew W. Marshall, Edited by Jeffrey S. McKitrick and Robert G. Angevine
2022-12-19
An Assessment of U.S. Military Thinking on Cislunar Space Based on Current Doctrine
2022-12-12
2023 Call for Papers Topics
2022-11-27
Assessment of the Risk of a Nuclear Exchange with Russia: Is the U.S. Whistling Past the Nuclear Graveyard?
2022-11-14
Call for Papers: Threats and Opportunities in 2050
2022-11-06
Options for Ukraine to Defend Civilian Centers from Russian Strikes
2022-10-31
Call for Papers: Coordinating All The Things.
2022-09-04
Assessing the Role of China’s Aircraft Carriers in a Taiwan Invasion
2022-07-11
Call for Papers: COVID19 and National Security
2022-07-09
Options for the U.S. to Approach India as a Fellow Superpower
2022-06-27
Assessing China as a Superpower
2022-06-20
Assessing that Canada will be the Last Superpower
2022-06-06
Assessing Superpowers in 2050 – The Great Game Redefined
2022-05-30
Options for Defining the Next U.S. Defense Challenge
2022-05-23
Options for the U.S. Army to Build More Combat Condition Resilient Soldiers
2022-05-16
Assessing the Benefits of India’s Frustrating Pragmatic Energy
2022-05-09
An Assessment of Thinking Big About Future Warfare
2022-05-02
Call for Papers: The Next Superpower
2022-05-01
Assessing the Costs of Expecting Easy Victory
2022-04-25
U.S. Army Options to Regain Land Power Dominance
2022-04-18
Assessing the Tension Between Privacy and Innovation
2022-04-11
Options to Modify Title 10 U.S. Code to Improve U.S. Security Force Assistance
2022-04-04
Assessing the Forces Driving the Redesign of U.S. Army Land Power
2022-03-28
Assessing the Cameroonian Anglophone Crisis and Potential Impacts of U.S. Inaction
2022-03-21
Assessing the Foundation of Future U.S. Multi-Domain Operations
2022-03-14
Options to Mitigate Cognitive Threats
2022-03-07
Assessing China as a Case Study in Cognitive Threats
2022-02-28
Call for Papers: Societal, Organizational, and Personal Impacts of 2001-2021 National Security Decisions
2022-02-27
Assessing China’s Strategy to “Hide Capabilities and Bide Time”
2022-02-21
Options to Address Disinformation as a Cognitive Threat to the United States
2022-02-14
Assessing Strategy and Organized Crime
2022-02-07
Options to Address the Risk from Elected Officials Concurrently in the National Guard or Reserves
2022-01-31
An Assessment of Nigeria’s Security Situation in 2021
2022-01-24
Assessing the Cognitive Threat Posed by Technology Discourses Intended to Address Adversary Grey Zone Activities
2022-01-17
Options to Counter Foreign Influence Operations Targeting Servicemember and Veterans
2022-01-03
Call for Papers: Cognitive Threats
2021-12-30
Analyzing Social Media as a Means to Undermine the United States
2021-12-27
2022 Call for Papers Topics
2021-12-26
McMaster, Afghanistan, and the Praetorian Mindset
2021-12-20
Assessing Russian Use of Social Media as a Means to Influence U.S. Policy
2021-12-13
Assessing the Threat from Social Media Enabled Domestic Extremism in an Era of Stagnant Political Imagination
2021-11-29
Assessing Contemporary Deterrence Parallel to Netflix’s Squid Game
2021-11-22
Assessing the Impact of U.S. Forces on Pearl Harbor Heeding Multiple Warnings on December 7, 1941
2021-11-08
Call for Papers: Social Media and National Security
2021-10-31
Assessing Airborne Status in U.S. Army Special Operations Forces
2021-10-18
Options to Make COVID19 Lessons Learned Permanent at the United Kingdom’s Intermediate Command and Staff Course (Land)
2021-10-11
Options to Counter Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa
2021-10-04
Assessing Australia’s Cyber-Attack Attribution Issues
2021-09-27
Assessing the Alignment of U.S. Diplomatic and Military Power to Forestall Armed Conflict
2021-09-20
Space, Climate, and Comprehensive Defense Options Below the Threshold of War
2021-09-13
Assessing Shortcomings of the U.S. Approach for Addressing Conflict Below the Threshold of War
2021-09-06
Call for Papers: Cyber Integration — Vertical and Horizontal
2021-09-05
An Assessment of Capability Gaps that Contribute to Fighting Below the Threshold of War
2021-08-30
Assessing the Effect of the United Kingdom’s Integrated Review on Operations Below the Threshold of War
2021-08-23
Assessing the April 2021 Conflict Between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and the Impotency of Regional International Organizations
2021-08-09
Assessing a Situation where the Mission is a Headline
2021-07-26
Assessing Agile Gaming: War is Hard, Wargames Don’t Have to Be
2021-07-12
Assessing Wargame Effectiveness: Using Natural Language Processing to Evaluate Wargaming Dynamics and Outcomes
2021-07-05
Call for Papers: Prevailing in Conflict Below the Threshold of War
2021-06-30
Options to Increase Diversity by Forging Pathways into the Wargaming Profession
2021-06-28
Assessing Wargaming in Turkey
2021-06-21
Assessing Practical Educational Wargaming
2021-06-14
Assessing U.S. Army Diversity Efforts in the Context of Great Power Competition
2021-06-07
Assessing Wargaming in New Zealand
2021-05-31
U.S. Options to Counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative
2021-05-24
Assessing the Impact of a Kriegsspiel 2.0 in Modern Leadership and Command Training
2021-05-17
Organizing for Large-Scale Maritime Combat Operations
2021-05-03
Call for Papers / Georgetown University Wargaming Society: Wargaming
2021-05-01
Options for a Dedicated Stability Operations Force Supporting Large Scale Combat Operations
2021-04-26
Assessing the Value of the Lariat Advance Exercise Relative to the Louisiana Maneuvers for Preparing the U.S. Army for Large-Scale Combat Operations
2021-04-19
Options to Ensure the Best Indo-Pacific Policy in the U.S. Department of Defense
2021-04-12
Options to Build U.S. Army Headquarters Elements for Large Scale Combat Operations
2021-04-05
Assessing the Application of a Cold War Strategic Framework to Establish Norms in the Cyber Threat Environment
2021-03-29
Assessing the Fungibility of U.S.-Soviet Competitive Strategies
2021-03-22
Cold War Transferability, or Not: Assessing Industrial Constraints and Naval Power After Long Land Wars
2021-03-21
Options to Apply Cold War-Like Security Institutions to the Indo-Pacific
2021-03-15
Options for the Demilitarization of Security in Nigeria
2021-03-08
Episode 0014: The Knocking the Rust Off Edition (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2021-03-06
Call for Papers: Organizing for Large Scale Combat Operations
2021-03-06
Options to Improve Individual and Small Unit Readiness in Great Power Competition
2021-03-01
Assessing Early Cold War Overestimations of Soviet Capabilities and Intent and its Applicability to Current U.S.- China Relations
2021-02-22
The Merits and Perils of Containment: Assessing the American View of the Chinese Challenge
2021-02-15
Options for the U.S. Towards Pakistan
2021-02-08
The Challenge of Abstraction: Assessing Cold War Analogies to the Present Period
2021-02-01
Assessing United States Military Modernization Priorities
2021-01-25
Can You Have it All? – Options for Readying for Both Stability and Large Scale Combat Operations
2021-01-20
U.S. Options to Incentivize People’s Republic of China Behavior
2021-01-18
Options to Enhance Security in U.S. Networked Combat Systems
2021-01-11
Options to Prioritize People and Improve Readiness: Decreasing OPTEMPO to Increase Learning
2021-01-04
Assessment of the Use of Poisons as the Weapon of Choice in Putin’s Russia
2020-12-28
Call for Papers: Cold War Transferability or Lack Thereof
2020-12-27
Assessing the Role of Armed Forces in Activities Below the Threshold of War
2020-12-21
U.S. Military Force Deployment Options to Deter China
2020-12-14
Assessing Ukraine’s Return to Stability
2020-12-09
An Assessment of Realism in American Foreign Policy
2020-12-07
Assessing the Impact of the Information Domain on the Classic Security Dilemma from Realist Theory
2020-12-02
An Assessment of the National Security Implications of First Contact
2020-11-30
Targeting North Atlantic Treaty Organization Article 5: Assessing Enhanced Forward Presence as a Below War Threshold Response
2020-11-25
Options to Improve U.S. Army Ground Combat Platform Research and Development
2020-11-23
Simple Lethality: Assessing the Potential for Agricultural Unmanned Aerial and Ground Systems to Deploy Biological or Chemical Weapons
2020-11-18
Assessing Morocco’s Below War Threshold Activities in Spanish Enclaves in North of Africa and the Canary Islands
2020-11-16
Writing Contest Results — Below Threshold Competition: China
2020-11-13
Assessment of Opportunities to Engage with the Chinese Film Market
2020-11-11
Assessing the Role of Civil Government Agencies in Irregular Warfare
2020-11-09
U.S. Options for Countering the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa
2020-11-04
An Assessment of the American National Interest in Sino-American Competition
2020-11-02
An Assessment of Chinese Mercantilism as a Dual Circulation Strategy with Implications for U.S. Strategy
2020-10-30
Options to Decrease Trade Tensions Between the U.S. and China
2020-10-28
2021 Call for Papers Topics
2020-10-27
Options for the U.S. to Counter China’s Disruptive Economic Activities
2020-10-26
Call for Papers: Readiness
2020-10-25
Assessing the Impact of Dialectical Materialism on Xi Jinping’s Strategic Thinking
2020-10-23
U.S. Options for Subversion within China
2020-10-21
Below Threshold Options for China against the U.S.
2020-10-19
Options for Taiwan to Better Compete with China
2020-10-14
Assessment of Sino-Russian Strategic Competition in Africa
2020-10-12
Options for Altering Global Energy Developments to America’s Advantage and China’s Disadvantage
2020-10-07
Assessing the U.S. and China Competition for Brazilian 5G
2020-10-05
Minerals, Minds, and Accommodation: U.S. Options Against China
2020-09-30
Assessing How Countries Can Compete with Chinese Hybrid Tactics Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict
2020-09-28
Assessing the Development of Chinese Soft Power in Central Asia
2020-09-23
U.S. Below War Threshold Options Against China
2020-09-21
Options to Manage the 2020 Election Cyber Threat Landscape
2020-09-18
Alternative Future: Options to Address China’s Reaction to COVID-19 and Growing Anti-Chinese Sentiment
2020-09-16
Boxing Out: Assessing the United States’ Cultural Soft Power Advantage in Africa Over China
2020-09-14
2020 Civil Affairs Association / Eunomia Journal Writing Contest Results
2020-09-11
Assessing Religion, Law, Reform, and Human Factors in Afghanistan 2035
2020-09-09
Assessment on the 2035 Sino-U.S. Conflict in Africa Below the Level of War
2020-09-07
Assessing the Impact of Defining Lone Actor Terrorism in the U.S.
2020-09-04
An Assessment of the Irrelevance of State Borders in 2035
2020-09-02
Call for Papers: Words Ending in Ist and Ism
2020-09-01
Assessing the U.S. Shift to Great Power Competition and the Risk from North Korea
2020-08-31
Options for Ukraine to Address the Impact of the Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline
2020-08-26
Alternative History: The Newburgh Conspiracy Succeeds — An After-Action Review
2020-08-24
Alternative History: Options Other than the Doolittle Raid to Strike Japan After Pearl Harbor
2020-08-19
Assessing the Chinese Diaspora as Key to Southeast Asian Human Factor Influence Through 2035
2020-08-17
Assessing the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Surreptitious Artificial Intelligence Build-Up
2020-08-14
Alternative Future: The Perils of Trading Artificial Intelligence for Analysis in the U.S. Intelligence Community
2020-08-12
Alternative Future: Assessing Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Performance in the Third Chechen War
2020-08-10
Assessing the Dependency of U.S. Below Threshold Competition on Department of State Modernization
2020-08-05
Assessing the Relationship Between the United States and Saudi Arabia –An Unethical Partnership with Multiple Purposes?
2020-08-03
Alternative History: An Assessment of the Long-Term Impact of U.S. Strikes on Syria in 2013 on the Viability of the Free Syrian Army
2020-07-29
Options for African Nations Regarding Economic Collaboration with the U.S. and China
2020-07-27
Assessing the Paradox of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Expansion
2020-07-22
Alternative Future: An Assessment of U.S. Re-Engagement with Hungary in 2035
2020-07-20
Assessment of a Tutoring Model as a Replacement for Conventional Teaching and Learning
2020-07-15
Assessing African Strategic Needs to Counter Undue Chinese Influence
2020-07-13
Options for the United States to Compete with China Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict
2020-07-08
A Wicked Cultural Problem: Options for Combating New Tribalism in 2035
2020-07-06
Call for Papers: Activities Below the Threshold of War
2020-07-05
Options for a Five Eyes Response to Below Threshold Competition with China
2020-07-01
U.S. Options for a Consistent Response to Cyberattacks
2020-06-29
Options for the Deployment of Robots on the Battlefield
2020-06-24
Options for the U.S. to Wage Conflict in the Cognitive Domain
2020-06-22
Assessing China as a Complex Competitor and its Continued Evolution of Tactics Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict
2020-06-17
An Assessment of the U.S. Army’s Civil Affairs’ Capability to Provide Commanders with Improved Situational Awareness in Population-Centric Operations
2020-06-15
Assessing the Role of Career Diplomats in National Security
2020-06-10
Assessing China’s Civil and Military Crisis Response Capabilities
2020-06-08
Assessing Iran in 2020 Regarding the United Nations Arms Embargo and the U.S. Elections
2020-06-05
Assessment of the Virtual Societal Warfare Environment of 2035
2020-06-03
Assessing How India’s ‘Fourth Arm of Defence’ Decreased the United States’ Munitions
2020-06-01
U.S. Aircraft Basing Options in Competition and Conflict with China
2020-05-27
Assessing China’s Economic Influence in Latin America
2020-05-25
Assessing Russia’s Pursuit of Great Power
2020-05-20
Assessing the Threat posed by Artificial Intelligence and Computational Propaganda
2020-05-18
Assessing 9/11 Lessons and the Way Ahead for Homeland Defense Against Small Unmanned Aerial Systems
2020-05-13
An Assessment of U.S. Leadership Potential in Asia via the Trans-Pacific Partnership
2020-05-11
Assessing COVID-19’s Impact on the Philippines in the Context of Great Power Competition
2020-05-06
Options for a United States Counterterrorism Strategy in Africa
2020-05-04
Call for Papers: Alternative Futures & Alternative Histories
2020-05-03
Assessing the Kettlebell One Arm Long Cycle for the U.S. Army Physical Fitness Test
2020-04-27
U.S. Army Options for Professional Military Education Amidst COVID-19
2020-04-20
Assessing the Effect of Military Aid on Both Donor and Receiver
2020-04-13
Civil Affairs Association and Divergent Options Writing Contest
2020-04-07
Options to Penetrate Adversary Anti Access / Area Denial (A2/AD) Systems
2020-03-30
Assessing U.S. Relative Decline
2020-03-23
An Assessment of the Concept of Competition as a Foundation to Military Planning
2020-03-16
Assessing U.S. Use of Coercive Diplomacy
2020-03-08
An Assessment of Nationalism’s Impact on Security and Stability in Switzerland
2020-03-02
Call for Papers: Emerging Technologies and Emerging Concepts
2020-02-29
Writing Contest — Below Threshold Competition: China
2020-02-29
Options for a Consistent U.S. Approach to Humanitarian Intervention
2020-02-24
U.S. Options to Combat Chinese Technological Hegemony
2020-02-10
Options for a Joint Support Service
2020-02-03
Assessing a U.S. Policy of Détente with China
2020-01-27
An Assessment of the Global War on Terror via Deterrence Theory
2020-01-20
An Assessment of the Forest Brothers’ Response to Invasion of the Baltics
2020-01-13
An Assessment of the National Security Impact of Digital Sovereignty
2020-01-06
Call for Papers: Ethics in National Security
2019-12-31
Assessment of the U.S. Presence in Afghanistan
2019-12-30
Options for Deterrence Below Armed Conflict
2019-12-23
Assessing the Deterrence Value of the F-35 in Syria
2019-12-16
Divergent Options at the 2019 #NatSecGirlSquad Conference
2019-12-11
Assessing the Relationship of Sikh-Canadians with Canada and India
2019-12-09
Assessment of Increased Chinese Strategic Presence in Afghanistan
2019-12-02
Assessing North Korea’s Cyber Evolution
2019-11-25
Assessment of Militia Forces as a Model for Recruitment and Retention in Cyber Security Forces
2019-11-18
2020 Call for Papers Topics
2019-11-16
An Assessment of the Current State of U.S. Cyber Civil Defense
2019-11-11
Assessing Black Swans and their Pre-Incident Indicators
2019-11-04
Call for Papers: Deterrence and Détente
2019-10-31
Alternative History: An Assessment of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Azhdar Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
2019-10-28
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ Options to Counter the 1941 German Invasion
2019-10-24
U.S. Options to Respond to North Vietnam’s 1973 Violations of the Paris Peace Accords
2019-10-21
Alternative Future: Assessment of the Effects of the Loss of the American Lease on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti
2019-10-17
Alternative Futures: An Assessment of the 2040 Security Environment absent Great Power Competition
2019-10-14
Assessment of Right-Wing Militia Extremism in the United States
2019-10-07
Alternative Futures: Assessment of the 2027 Afghan Opium Trade
2019-10-03
Assessment of U.S. Counterinsurgency Efforts in Laos 1954-1962
2019-09-30
Alternative Futures: Assessment of the Afghanistan Bureau 2001-2021
2019-09-23
Writing Contest Winners!
2019-09-20
Germany’s Options in the First Moroccan Crisis
2019-09-19
Assessment of the American-led Constabulary during the American Occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934 in Comparison to Later Occupations
2019-09-16
Assessment of Nationalism in Bosnia and its Ramifications for Foreign Intervention
2019-09-12
An Assessment of Air Force Advising Concepts in Small Wars, “Paper Falcons”
2019-09-09
Assessment of the European Intervention Initiative and Overcoming Nationalist Barriers
2019-09-06
Assessing the Goals of U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts in Somalia
2019-09-05
Options for New Zealand’s National Security Posture
2019-09-02
Call for Papers: Cyber and Space
2019-08-31
Assessment of the Inclusiveness of American Nationalism
2019-08-29
Turning “Small” Wars into “Big” Wars: How Tacticians Endanger Us All
2019-08-26
Assessment of Civilian Next-Generation Knowledge Management Systems for Managing Civil Information
2019-08-19
Assessment of French Intervention in the Sahel Region, 2013-2019
2019-08-12
Assessment of U.S. Strategic Goals Through Peacekeeping Operations in the 1982 Lebanon Intervention
2019-08-08
Strategic Futures: Nigerian Air Force Requirements In The Post Insurgency Era
2019-08-06
An Assessment of the Private Military Industry and its Role in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
2019-08-05
Strategic Futures: Fostering Turkish-Nigerian Strategic Cooperation
2019-08-03
Assessment of U.S. Involvement to Counter Hutu Extremists’ Plans for Tutsi Genocide in Early 1994
2019-07-29
Assessing the Jefferson Administration’s Actions During the First Barbary Wars and their Impact on U.S. Small War Policy
2019-07-25
Options for the Nigerian Air Force to go on the Offensive in the Counterinsurgency War
2019-07-22
Options for U.S. Use of Private Military and Security Companies
2019-07-15
Assessment of the Existential Threat Posed by a United Biafran and Ambazonian Separatist Front in West Africa
2019-07-11
Assessment of Rising Extremism in the Central Sahel
2019-07-08
Options for the U.S. Department of Defense to Balance Peer Competition with Military Operations Other Than War
2019-07-01
Call for Papers: Alternative Futures and Alternative Histories
2019-06-30
Options for Maintaining Counterinsurgency Capabilities in the Great Power Era
2019-06-27
Assessment of the Legion as the Ideal Small Wars Force Structure
2019-06-24
Assessment of the Role of Small Wars within the Evolving Paradigm of Great Power Competition in a Multipolar World
2019-06-17
Counterfactual: Assessment of Risks to the American Reunification Referendum by the Confederate States of America’s Counterinsurgency Campaign in Cuba
2019-06-13
Assessment of the Effects of Chinese Nationalism on China’s Foreign Policy
2019-06-10
An Assessment of the U.S. Punitive Expedition of 1916
2019-06-03
#PartnerArticle Assessing Nigeria’s Vulnerability To Extreme Weather Events
2019-05-29
#PartnerArticle Assessing The Impacts Of A Potential US-Iran War On Nigeria
2019-05-28
Episode 0013: Spies and Satire with Alex Finley (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2019-05-27
Options for Europe to Address Climate Refugee Migration
2019-05-27
Book Review: “Victor in the Jungle” by Alex Finley
2019-05-22
Assessment of the Threat of Nationalism to the State Power of Democracies in the Information Age
2019-05-20
Assessment of the Efficacy of the French Military Intervention in the Northern Mali Conflict
2019-05-13
Assessment of the Operational Implications of 21st Century Subterranean Conflict
2019-05-08
An Assessment of Population Relocation in 21st Century Counterinsurgencies
2019-05-06
Call for Papers: Contemporary Conflict
2019-04-30
An Assessment of the Small Wars Manual as an Implementation Model for Strategic Influence in Contemporary and Future Warfare
2019-04-29
#PartnerArticle GICS Report: Survival and Expansion, the Islamic State’s West African Province
2019-04-23
Assessing U.S. Space-Focused Governing Documents from the Astropolitik Model of State Competition
2019-04-22
Options to Bridge the U.S. Department of Defense – Silicon Valley Gap with Cyber Foreign Area Officers
2019-04-15
An Assessment of the Threat Posed by Increased Nationalist Movements in Europe
2019-04-15
Options to Address U.S. Federal Government Budget Process Dysfunction
2019-04-08
Assessment of the Impacts of Saudi Arabia’s Vision2030 on U.S. Efforts to Confront Iran
2019-04-01
Options for the West to Address Russia’s Unconventional Tactics
2019-03-25
#PartnerArticle – Q & A: Assessing a Second Buhari Presidency in Nigeria
2019-03-22
#NatSecGirlSquad: The Conference Edition White Paper — The Future of U.S. Relations and Security in the Western Hemisphere Panel
2019-03-18
Options for Peace in the Continuing War in Afghanistan
2019-03-10
A Thank You to our Strategic Advisors!
2019-03-05
An Assessment of Daesh’s Strategic Communication Efforts to Recruit in Syria
2019-03-04
#PartnerArticle – Briefing Note: Insurgent Activities In Northeast Nigeria And The 2019 Elections
2019-03-02
Call for Papers: Nationalism and Extremism
2019-03-02
Episode 0012: Hollywood, the U.S. Military, and Civil-Military Relations (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2019-03-02
Small Wars Journal and Divergent Options Writing Contest
2019-03-01
An Assessment of the Role of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Future Warfare
2019-02-25
#PartnerArticle – Sexual Enslavement of Women from the Lake Chad Conflict, through the Gidan Drama System
2019-02-21
Does Rising Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
2019-02-18
Alternative Futures: United Kingdom Options in Venezuela
2019-02-11
Assessing Military Thought in Post-Soviet Russia
2019-02-04
#NatSecGirl Squad: The Conference Edition White Paper — The Role of the Intelligence Community in National Security and Defense
2019-01-28
Assessing the Failure of Minsk II in Ukraine and the Success of the 2008 Ceasefire in Georgia
2019-01-21
#PartnerArticle – Assessing Nigerian Air Power Employment In Counter Insurgency Operations
2019-01-17
An Assessment Of Britain’s Relations With Nigeria In 2018
2019-01-17
An Assessment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Cyber Strategy and Cyber Challenges
2019-01-14
Episode 0011: U.S.-China Relations with Special Guest Ali Wyne (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2019-01-13
Options for the U.S. Middle East Strategic Alliance
2019-01-08
#NatSecGirl Squad: The Conference Edition White Paper — Communicating with Non-Experts
2019-01-07
Partnership Announcement: Conflict Studies And Analysis Project (CSAAP)
2019-01-04
Call for Papers: The Next Pivot / The Next Threat
2019-01-01
Assessment of the Future of “Russkiy Mir” in Russia’s Grand Strategy
2018-12-31
Options for Countering the Rise of Chinese Private Military Contractors
2018-12-24
Assessing the Widening Russian Presence in Africa
2018-12-17
Announcing the Divergent Options Writer’s Forum
2018-12-16
Episode 0010: The 1986 Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-12-12
Assessment of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Forces in the Baltic States: Credible Deterrent or Paper Tiger?
2018-12-10
An Assessment of the 2018 U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Strategy Summary
2018-12-03
Great Britain’s Options After Departing the European Union
2018-11-26
2019 Call for Papers Schedule
2018-11-20
An Assessment of U.S. Navy Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Options at Leyte Gulf
2018-11-19
Episode 0009: Guest Loren DeJonge Schulman / The Draft (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-11-18
Options at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
2018-11-12
Assessing Turkey’s Future Role in the Middle East
2018-11-05
Call for Papers: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union, Russia, & the former Soviet Republics
2018-11-01
Options for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Five Eyes Alliance
2018-10-29
Assessment of Current Efforts to Fight the Islamic State
2018-10-22
**CORRECTED** Episode 0008: Guest Tamara Cofman Wittes / Human Rights & National Security (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-10-21
#NatSecGirlSquad: Conference Edition
2018-10-20
Alternative Futures: Argentina Attempts a Second Annexation of the Falkland Islands
2018-10-15
An Assessment of the Iranian Ballistic Missile Arsenal and Regional Preparedness
2018-10-08
Episode 0007: The Great Books Edition (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-10-04
Assessment of Russia’s Cyber Relations with the U.S. and its Allies
2018-10-01
Alternative Futures: An Assessment of Ongoing North Korean Troop Rotations to Finland
2018-09-24
Assessment of the Role of Cyber Power in Interstate Conflict
2018-09-17
Alternative Futures: U.S. Options for a Chinese Invasion of North Korea (Part 3 of 3)
2018-09-10
Assessment of North Korean Strategy in Preparation for High Level Diplomacy in September 2018
2018-09-07
Alternative Futures: South Korea Options for a Chinese Invasion of North Korea (Part 2 of 3)
2018-09-03
Call for Papers: The Middle East
2018-08-31
Alternative Futures: North Korea Options for a Chinese Invasion (Part 1 of 3)
2018-08-27
Assessment of the North Korean Cyberattack on Sony Pictures
2018-08-20
Episode 0006: The Politicization of Retired U.S. Military Generals and Admirals (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-08-18
An Assessment of U.S. Women in Islamic State-related Cases
2018-08-13
Alternative Futures: Options for the Deployment of Iraqi Peacekeepers
2018-08-06
U.S. Options for Responding to Sharp Power Threats
2018-07-30
Divergent Trajectories for U.S. Military Power
2018-07-23
An Assessment of the Likely Roles of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems in the Near Future
2018-07-16
Episode 0005: Mission Creep (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-07-09
Assessment of the Security and Political Threat Posed by a “Post-Putin” Russia in 2040
2018-07-09
Options to Manage the Risks of Integrating Artificial Intelligence into National Security and Critical Industry Organizations
2018-07-02
Call for Papers: Cyberspace
2018-06-29
Assessment of Al-Qaeda’s Enduring Threat Seven Years After Osama bin Laden’s Death
2018-06-25
An Assessment of Information Warfare as a Cybersecurity Issue
2018-06-18
Assessment of the Military Implication of Chinese Investment in the Port of Djibouti
2018-06-11
Assessing How Article 51 of the United Nations Charter Prevents Conflict Escalation
2018-06-04
Episode 0004: Guest Kori Schake (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-05-28
The Conflict of a New Home: African Migrants and the Push/Pull Factors during Acculturation
2018-05-28
Options for U.S. Naval Force Posture in East Africa
2018-05-21
Assessment of Opération Turquoise: The Paradoxical French-led Humanitarian Military Intervention During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
2018-05-14
Options to Address Terrorism Financing in Australia
2018-05-07
Episode 0003: Military Planning Constructs (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-05-02
Assessment of the Security Implications of Environmental Crime in Africa
2018-04-30
Call for Papers: Alternative Futures
2018-04-30
Options for Decentralized Local Defence Forces in Iraq & Afghanistan
2018-04-23
Assessment of the How the Media Overstates the Threat Posed by the Erroneously Called ‘Lone-Wolves’
2018-04-16
Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Turkish Cyber Army
2018-04-09
Assessment of Infrastructure Development in Africa and Shifting Chinese Foreign Policy
2018-04-02
Episode 0002: U.S. & PRC Maritime Competition (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-03-26
Options to Manage the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia’s Nuclear Ambitions
2018-03-26
Assessment of the Role of Authoritarianism in Fomenting Extremism in the Arab World
2018-03-19
Options for the U.S. to Deter China in the East & South China Seas
2018-03-12
Options for the Strategic Goals of the Royal Canadian Navy
2018-03-12
China’s Options Towards the (Re)emerging Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
2018-03-05
Options to Build Local Capabilities to Stabilise the Lake Chad Region
2018-03-05
Call for Papers: The Pacific
2018-03-03
Episode 0001: U.S. National Security Strategy (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
2018-03-02
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Options for the U.S. Presence in Syria
2018-02-26
Assessment of Violent Extremism: The Push of Identity Crisis and the Pull of Ideologies
2018-02-26
Assessing Al Suri’s Individual Terrorism Jihadist Against Lone Wolves
2018-02-19
The Impact of Extremists in Civil War: Syria’s Shabbiha
2018-02-12
An Assessment of Violent Extremist Use of Social Media Technologies
2018-02-05
An Assessment of the Conceptualizing of Charisma / Persuasion and Coercion
2018-01-29
An Historic Assessment of the Role and Participation of Women as Active Agents in Violent Extremist Organizations
2018-01-22
Assessment of the Factors Leading to the Recruitment of Violent Extremists
2018-01-15
An Australian Perspective on Identity, Social Media, and Ideology as Drivers for Violent Extremism
2018-01-08
Playing “Good Jihadi-Bad Jihadi”
2018-01-01
Call for Papers: Africa
2017-12-28
Assessment on the Revised Use of Afghan Militias
2017-12-25
Assessment of the Trump Administration’s Communications with the “Muslim World”
2017-12-18
Assessment of the Lone Wolf Terrorist Concept
2017-12-11
Writing Contest Winners
2017-12-10
2018 Call for Papers Schedule
2017-12-09
Options for Streamlining U.S. Department of Defense Decision Making
2017-12-04
Assessment of the Threat to Southeast Asia Posed by Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing
2017-11-27
Options for U.S. National Service
2017-11-20
Assessment of U.S. Cyber Command’s Elevation to Unified Combatant Command
2017-11-13
Assessment of Canada’s Fighter Replacement Process
2017-11-06
Call for Papers: Violent Extremism
2017-11-02
Assessment of North Korea’s Illicit Trafficking Activities
2017-10-30
Assessment of the Potential Security Challenges Posed by Water Security Between Afghanistan and Iran
2017-10-23
Assessment of Possible Updates to the National Security Act of 1947
2017-10-16
Victory Over the Potomac: Alternatives to Inevitable Strategic Failure
2017-10-09
Assessment of North Korea’s Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Small Arms
2017-10-02
Options for Constitutional Change in Afghanistan
2017-09-25
U.S. Options for Basing Forces to Deter North Korea
2017-09-18
Assessment of the United States-China Power Transition and the New World Order
2017-09-11
Options for U.S. National Guard Defense of Cyberspace
2017-09-04
Call for Papers: Environmental Factors and Resource Scarcity as a Conflict Driver
2017-09-03
Assessment of Cryptocurrencies and Their Potential for Criminal Use
2017-08-28
Assessment of Alexander Zakharchenko’s “Malorossiya” Proposition
2017-08-21
Assessment of the Search for Security in the Eastern Baltic
2017-08-14
Great Power Interaction: United States Options Towards Iran
2017-08-07
United States’ Options to North Korea Missile Development
2017-07-31
People’s Republic of China Options Toward North Korea
2017-07-24
Options for a Future Strategy for the Afghan Taliban
2017-07-17
Options for United States Military Assistance to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq
2017-07-10
Assessment of Libya-Trained Terrorists’ External Attack Capability
2017-07-03
Options for Avoiding U.S. Complicity for Coalition War Crimes in Yemen
2017-06-29
Options for Next Generation Blue Force Biometrics
2017-06-26
Announcing the Assessment Paper!
2017-06-23
Authorization for the Use of Military Force Options
2017-06-22
Options to Counter Piracy in the Horn of Africa
2017-06-19
Divergent Options on The Loopcast
2017-06-16
U.S. Options to Address a Growing People’s Republic of China Army (Navy)
2017-06-15
Call for Papers: Options or Assessments for Great Power Interaction
2017-06-14
Hamas Policy Options Amidst Regional & Internal Change
2017-06-12
Options for Paying Ransoms to Advanced Persistent Threat Actors
2017-06-08
Options for Defining “Acts of War” in Cyberspace
2017-06-05
“Do You Have A Flag?” – Egyptian Political Upheaval & Cyberspace Attribution
2017-06-01
U.S. Options to Develop a Cyberspace Influence Capability
2017-05-29
Evolution of U.S. Cyber Operations and Information Warfare
2017-05-25
Cyber Vulnerabilities in U.S. Law Enforcement & Public Safety Communication Networks
2017-05-22
U.S. Diplomacy Options for Security & Adaptability in Cyberspace
2017-05-18
Options for Private Sector Hacking Back
2017-05-15
Options to Deter Cyber-Intrusions into Non-Government Computers
2017-05-11
Trump Administration Options Towards Iran
2017-05-08
Options for Bougainville Independence
2017-05-04
Options for United States Intelligence Community Analytical Tools
2017-05-01
Options for Managing Xinjiang Uighur Ethnic Tensions
2017-04-27
70th Anniversary Writing Contest: Options for a New U.S. National Security Act
2017-04-24
Options to Evolve U.S. Law Enforcement and Public Safety Training
2017-04-24
Islamic State Options: Pivot towards Australia
2017-04-20
Options for U.S. Sanctions Towards Russia for Aggression in Ukraine
2017-04-17
U.S. Options for Regime Change in Syria
2017-04-13
America First Foreign Policy in the South China Sea
2017-04-10
U.S. Options for the People’s Republic of China’s Maritime Militias
2017-04-06
Options for the People’s Republic of China following the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1996
2017-04-03
South China Sea Options: An Alternative Route
2017-03-30
U.S. Partnership Options in the South China Sea
2017-03-27
Options for the Philippines in the South China Sea
2017-03-23
U.S. Options Towards a Rising People’s Republic of China
2017-03-20
South China Sea Options: The Road to Taiwan
2017-03-16
Options for Singapore in the South China Sea
2017-03-13
Call for Papers: Options in Cyberspace
2017-03-12
Anti-Access / Area Denial Options in the South China Sea
2017-03-09
South China Sea: Continuous U.S. Presence or a new Law of the Sea Treaty
2017-03-06
Strategic Advisory Board
2017-03-05
Options to Arm Volunteer Territorial Defense Battalions in Ukraine
2017-03-02
Government of Iraq Options for Islamic State Detainees
2017-02-27
Divergent Options Social Event – Thursday, April 27, 2017 – 6pm to 8pm – Arlington, VA
2017-02-25
Blurred lines: Options for Security & Immigration in Europe
2017-02-23
Future Risk & Surge: Brian Christopher Darling
2017-02-20
Divergent Options on Blogs of War / Covert Contact Podcast
2017-02-17
Future Risk & Surge: Chris Townsend
2017-02-16
Future Risk & Surge: Nathan Wike
2017-02-13
Options for Mexico with the Trump Administration
2017-02-09
U.S. Options for Israel: Accept or Reject Settlement Activities
2017-02-06
Israel Options: Continue Expansion or Recognize Palestine
2017-02-02
One State & Two State Options in Israel & Palestine
2017-01-30
Options for the Baltic States in an Uncertain Security Environment
2017-01-26
Options to Deter Russia Through U.S.-NATO Military Exercises
2017-01-23
Options to Increase Arab Middle East Stability Through Economic Investment
2017-01-19
Syria Options: U.S. Grand Strategy
2017-01-16
Syria Options: Refugee Preparation & Resettlement
2017-01-12
Egyptian Syriana: A Gulf-Funded Russian Roulette
2017-01-09
Syria Options: Russian Naval Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
2017-01-05
Call for Papers: Options in the South China Sea
2017-01-03
Syria Options: Safe Zone
2017-01-02
Syria Options: Involving China as a Major Broker in Syria Peace Talks
2016-12-29
Rapid Call For Papers: Israel & Palestine
2016-12-28
Syria Options: No Fly Zone & Syrians Rebuilding Syria Program
2016-12-26
Syria Options: Military & Political Pressure
2016-12-22
Syria Options: No Fly Zone & Remove Assad
2016-12-19
Red Team Options for Syria: The Fall of Raqqa, Syria from an Islamic State Perspective
2016-12-15
Options for Turkey in Syria
2016-12-12
Future Risk & Surge: A U.S. Army War College & Divergent Options Call for Papers
2016-12-07
Call For Papers: Syria
2016-11-01
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