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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
An Assessment of Adversarial Exploitation of the Seams Between Geographic Combatant Commands
2025-11-21
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
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
An Assessment of Critical Minerals, Strategic Competition, and Ukraine
2025-03-09
Assessing the Implications of the Fall of Assad on the Rules Based Order
2025-01-26
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
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
Assessing Strategic Competition, Non-State Armed Groups, and Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Implications for the West and the Rules Based Order
2024-07-15
An Assessment of the Nuclear Ambiguity Caused by the Islamic Republic of Iran
2024-07-08
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
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
Assessing the Impact of the Red Sea Crisis on the Rules Based International Order: Implications for the Indo-Pacific
2024-04-22
Assessing the Benefits of a United States Foreign Legion
2024-03-04
January 2024 Assessment of the Iranian Missile Arsenal and Regional Responses
2024-02-05
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
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 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
Assessing the Need for the Battlefield Scavenger
2023-01-30
Assessing Terrorism and Artificial Intelligence in 2050
2023-01-09
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
Assessment of the Risk of a Nuclear Exchange with Russia: Is the U.S. Whistling Past the Nuclear Graveyard?
2022-11-14
Assessing the Role of China’s Aircraft Carriers in a Taiwan Invasion
2022-07-11
Assessing China as a Superpower
2022-06-20
Assessing Superpowers in 2050 – The Great Game Redefined
2022-05-30
Assessing the Benefits of India’s Frustrating Pragmatic Energy
2022-05-09
An Assessment of Thinking Big About Future Warfare
2022-05-02
Assessing the Costs of Expecting Easy Victory
2022-04-25
Assessing the Tension Between Privacy and Innovation
2022-04-11
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
Assessing China as a Case Study in Cognitive Threats
2022-02-28
Assessing China’s Strategy to “Hide Capabilities and Bide Time”
2022-02-21
Assessing Strategy and Organized Crime
2022-02-07
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
Analyzing Social Media as a Means to Undermine the United States
2021-12-27
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 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
Assessing Airborne Status in U.S. Army Special Operations Forces
2021-10-18
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
Assessing Shortcomings of the U.S. Approach for Addressing Conflict Below the Threshold of War
2021-09-06
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
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
Assessing the Impact of a Kriegsspiel 2.0 in Modern Leadership and Command Training
2021-05-17
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
Assessing Early Cold War Overestimations of Soviet Capabilities and Intent and its Applicability to Current U.S.- China Relations
2021-02-22
Assessment of the Use of Poisons as the Weapon of Choice in Putin’s Russia
2020-12-28
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
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
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
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
Assessing the Impact of Dialectical Materialism on Xi Jinping’s Strategic Thinking
2020-10-23
Assessment of Sino-Russian Strategic Competition in Africa
2020-10-12
Assessing the U.S. and China Competition for Brazilian 5G
2020-10-05
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
Boxing Out: Assessing the United States’ Cultural Soft Power Advantage in Africa Over China
2020-09-14
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
Assessing the U.S. Shift to Great Power Competition and the Risk from North Korea
2020-08-31
Alternative History: The Newburgh Conspiracy Succeeds — An After-Action Review
2020-08-24
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 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
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
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
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
Assessing the Kettlebell One Arm Long Cycle for the U.S. Army Physical Fitness Test
2020-04-27
Assessing the Effect of Military Aid on Both Donor and Receiver
2020-04-13
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
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
Assessment of the U.S. Presence in Afghanistan
2019-12-30
Assessing the Deterrence Value of the F-35 in Syria
2019-12-16
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
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
Alternative History: An Assessment of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Azhdar Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
2019-10-28
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
Assessment of the American-led Constabulary during the American Occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934 in Comparison to Later Occupations
2019-09-16
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
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
An Assessment of the Private Military Industry and its Role in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
2019-08-05
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
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
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
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
An Assessment of the Small Wars Manual as an Implementation Model for Strategic Influence in Contemporary and Future Warfare
2019-04-29
Assessing U.S. Space-Focused Governing Documents from the Astropolitik Model of State Competition
2019-04-22
An Assessment of the Threat Posed by Increased Nationalist Movements in Europe
2019-04-15
Assessment of the Impacts of Saudi Arabia’s Vision2030 on U.S. Efforts to Confront Iran
2019-04-01
An Assessment of Daesh’s Strategic Communication Efforts to Recruit in Syria
2019-03-04
An Assessment of the Role of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Future Warfare
2019-02-25
Does Rising Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
2019-02-18
Assessing Military Thought in Post-Soviet Russia
2019-02-04
Assessing the Failure of Minsk II in Ukraine and the Success of the 2008 Ceasefire in Georgia
2019-01-21
An Assessment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Cyber Strategy and Cyber Challenges
2019-01-14
Assessment of the Future of “Russkiy Mir” in Russia’s Grand Strategy
2018-12-31
Assessing the Widening Russian Presence in Africa
2018-12-17
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
An Assessment of U.S. Navy Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Options at Leyte Gulf
2018-11-19
Assessing Turkey’s Future Role in the Middle East
2018-11-05
Assessment of Current Efforts to Fight the Islamic State
2018-10-22
An Assessment of the Iranian Ballistic Missile Arsenal and Regional Preparedness
2018-10-08
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
Assessment of North Korean Strategy in Preparation for High Level Diplomacy in September 2018
2018-09-07
Assessment of the North Korean Cyberattack on Sony Pictures
2018-08-20
An Assessment of U.S. Women in Islamic State-related Cases
2018-08-13
Assessment of the Security and Political Threat Posed by a “Post-Putin” Russia in 2040
2018-07-09
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
The Conflict of a New Home: African Migrants and the Push/Pull Factors during Acculturation
2018-05-28
Assessment of Opération Turquoise: The Paradoxical French-led Humanitarian Military Intervention During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
2018-05-14
Assessment of the Security Implications of Environmental Crime in Africa
2018-04-30
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
Assessment of the Role of Authoritarianism in Fomenting Extremism in the Arab World
2018-03-19
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
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
Assessment of the Threat to Southeast Asia Posed by Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing
2017-11-27
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
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
Assessment of North Korea’s Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Small Arms
2017-10-02
Assessment of the United States-China Power Transition and the New World Order
2017-09-11
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
Assessment of Libya-Trained Terrorists’ External Attack Capability
2017-07-03
Announcing the Assessment Paper!
2017-06-23
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