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Options to Improve the Security Situation in Nigeria
March 20, 2026
Options to Counter Islamist Militancy in the Sahel Region
March 7, 2026
An Assessment of Human-Technological Teaming Solutions for Intelligence Collection Purposes
February 1, 2026
An Assessment of the Impact of Geography in Modern Air Campaigns
January 18, 2026
Options for Venezuela to Counter United States Actions in the Caribbean
January 6, 2026
Call for Papers: Technological Leadership for National Security
January 4, 2026
An Assessment of Adversarial Exploitation of the Seams Between Geographic Combatant Commands
November 21, 2025
Options for Continuing to Prepare for a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan in 2028 and Beyond
October 22, 2025
Call for Papers: 2028 and Beyond
September 1, 2025
An Assessment of Mechanised Forces in the Age of Drones
August 10, 2025
An Assessment of North Korea’s Attempts to Destabilize South Korea
July 29, 2025
Options to Mitigate Effects from Houthi Attacks on International Trade
July 13, 2025
An Assessment on State Sponsorship, Drones and the Expanded Capabilities of Non-State Armed Groups
June 13, 2025
An Assessment of the Joint Warfighting Concept’s Limitations in Mexico’s Gray Zone
April 30, 2025
Options for Russia Following the Special Military Operation in Ukraine
April 10, 2025
Options for Reorganizing Information-centric Organizations
April 3, 2025
Options to Respond to Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East
March 26, 2025
Options to Combat Human Trafficking Networks in Brazil
March 19, 2025
An Assessment of Critical Minerals, Strategic Competition, and Ukraine
March 9, 2025
Call for Papers: Joint Warfighting Concept and Future Operating Concepts
March 2, 2025
Options to Create a Meaningful U.S. National Security Strategy
February 8, 2025
Options to Address the Illicit Trade of Pangolins
February 2, 2025
Assessing the Implications of the Fall of Assad on the Rules Based Order
January 26, 2025
Options to Respond to the Deposal of Bashar al-Assad by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
January 17, 2025
Call for Papers: A new U.S. National Security Strategy
January 5, 2025
Announcement: New Editor-in-Chief at Divergent Options
January 1, 2025
2025 Call for Papers Topics
December 9, 2024
Divergent Options Principal Leadership Turnover Notice
December 1, 2024
Options to Increase Recruiter Proficiency Through Human Networking
November 26, 2024
Call for Papers: The Role of U.S. Military Forces in Mass Deportations
November 24, 2024
An Assessment of the Recruitment Challenges of the U.S. Military After Two Decades of War
November 18, 2024
An Assessment of U.S. Political Divisiveness and its Implications for Domestic and International Security
October 21, 2024
Call for Papers: Military Recruiting
September 14, 2024
Assessing the Stalemate on the Korean Peninsula and its Implications for U.S. Interests
August 5, 2024
Assessing the Benefits of Consolidating the U.S. Navy’s Fleets
July 29, 2024
Options for Non-Kinetic Interventions to Nigeria’s Security Challenges
July 22, 2024
Assessing Strategic Competition, Non-State Armed Groups, and Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Implications for the West and the Rules Based Order
July 15, 2024
Call for Papers: Command and Leadership Structures
July 14, 2024
An Assessment of the Nuclear Ambiguity Caused by the Islamic Republic of Iran
July 8, 2024
U.S. Options to Prioritize Non-Kinetic Competition to Counter the People’s Republic of China
July 1, 2024
Options for the U.S. Achieving Carbon Neutrality in the Time of the Global Competition
June 24, 2024
Chinese Activities in the South China Sea
June 17, 2024
Demolishing the Digital Man: The Case for Using AI to Anticipate Counterarguments
June 10, 2024
Assessment of The U.S. Military’s Strategic Dilemma: Overinvestment in Countering a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
June 3, 2024
Nagorno-Karabakh Options
May 27, 2024
Assessment of Ideological Convergence Between White Supremacist and Islamist Extremists
May 20, 2024
Assessing the Integration of Artificial Intelligence into National Security Assessments
May 13, 2024
Call for Papers: Maritime Strategy
May 12, 2024
Cyber in Area Denial in Littoral Environments
May 6, 2024
Using Cyber Operations to Achieve Cognitive Domain Impact
April 29, 2024
Assessing the Impact of the Red Sea Crisis on the Rules Based International Order: Implications for the Indo-Pacific
April 22, 2024
Virtual Frontlines: The Cognitive Warfare Implications of Hackable AR Technology in Military Operations
April 15, 2024
Chinese Activities in Kiribati
April 8, 2024
Options for Reintegrating Irregular Forces into Stability Operations During Large-Scale Combat Operations
April 1, 2024
The Options Remaining for Israel to Defeat Hamas
March 25, 2024
Options for Japan to Strengthen its Energy Security Through Alternatives to Middle East Oil
March 18, 2024
U.S. Options for a Potential Invasion of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China
March 11, 2024
Assessing the Benefits of a United States Foreign Legion
March 4, 2024
Call for Papers Team-Up with Blogs of War: An Artificial Intelligence Wrote This Article
March 3, 2024
Advising the Next President of the United States: Options for Countering Russian Disinformation
February 26, 2024
The New Memorandum of Understanding to Ensure a Qualitative Military Edge for Israel in 2028
February 19, 2024
Options to Address Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Increasingly Hostile Ballistic Missile Tests Towards Japan
February 12, 2024
January 2024 Assessment of the Iranian Missile Arsenal and Regional Responses
February 5, 2024
Options for a Post-War Future for Gaza
January 29, 2024
Options for the United States regarding Piratical Attacks against Commercial Shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
January 8, 2024
Call for Papers: Advising the Next President of the United States of America
January 1, 2024
Call for Papers: Nuclear Threats
November 12, 2023
Writing Contest Results – The Taiwan Offensive
October 9, 2023
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
August 28, 2023
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
August 21, 2023
Examining Disaster Aid as Cover for a Chinese Fait Accompli Against Taiwan
August 14, 2023
Options for the United States to Counter China’s Multi-Pronged Offensives in Taiwan
August 7, 2023
Assessing the People’s Republic of China’s Multiple Ongoing Offensives Against Taiwan
July 10, 2023
Assessing the Benefits of the U.S. Army Divesting in Armored Brigade Combat Teams and Investing in Security Force Assistance Brigades
July 3, 2023
Assessing U.S. 1990s – 2000s China Trade Policy’s Effects on U.S. National Security
June 5, 2023
Assessing the People’s Republic of China’s Current Multi-Decade Offensive Against Taiwan
May 29, 2023
Options for Taiwan’s Response to a Conventional Missile Strike by the People’s Republic of China
May 22, 2023
Call for Papers: Investing and Divesting
May 14, 2023
Assessing Guatemalan Military Relationships
April 24, 2023
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?
March 13, 2023
Call for Papers: Security Cooperation
March 12, 2023
Options for the United States to Arm Anti-Assad Factions in Syria with Defensive Weapons
March 6, 2023
Writing Contest: The Taiwan Offensive
February 12, 2023
Assessing the Need for the Battlefield Scavenger
January 30, 2023
Assessing Terrorism and Artificial Intelligence in 2050
January 9, 2023
Call for Papers: Ukraine in 2023
January 1, 2023
Assessing The Network-State in 2050
December 26, 2022
Assessing “Reflections on Net Assessment” by Andrew W. Marshall, Edited by Jeffrey S. McKitrick and Robert G. Angevine
December 19, 2022
An Assessment of U.S. Military Thinking on Cislunar Space Based on Current Doctrine
December 12, 2022
2023 Call for Papers Topics
November 27, 2022
Assessment of the Risk of a Nuclear Exchange with Russia: Is the U.S. Whistling Past the Nuclear Graveyard?
November 14, 2022
Call for Papers: Threats and Opportunities in 2050
November 6, 2022
Options for Ukraine to Defend Civilian Centers from Russian Strikes
October 31, 2022
Call for Papers: Coordinating All The Things.
September 4, 2022
Assessing the Role of China’s Aircraft Carriers in a Taiwan Invasion
July 11, 2022
Call for Papers: COVID19 and National Security
July 9, 2022
Options for the U.S. to Approach India as a Fellow Superpower
June 27, 2022
Assessing China as a Superpower
June 20, 2022
Assessing that Canada will be the Last Superpower
June 6, 2022
Assessing Superpowers in 2050 – The Great Game Redefined
May 30, 2022
Options for Defining the Next U.S. Defense Challenge
May 23, 2022
Options for the U.S. Army to Build More Combat Condition Resilient Soldiers
May 16, 2022
Assessing the Benefits of India’s Frustrating Pragmatic Energy
May 9, 2022
An Assessment of Thinking Big About Future Warfare
May 2, 2022
Call for Papers: The Next Superpower
May 1, 2022
Assessing the Costs of Expecting Easy Victory
April 25, 2022
U.S. Army Options to Regain Land Power Dominance
April 18, 2022
Assessing the Tension Between Privacy and Innovation
April 11, 2022
Options to Modify Title 10 U.S. Code to Improve U.S. Security Force Assistance
April 4, 2022
Assessing the Forces Driving the Redesign of U.S. Army Land Power
March 28, 2022
Assessing the Cameroonian Anglophone Crisis and Potential Impacts of U.S. Inaction
March 21, 2022
Assessing the Foundation of Future U.S. Multi-Domain Operations
March 14, 2022
Options to Mitigate Cognitive Threats
March 7, 2022
Assessing China as a Case Study in Cognitive Threats
February 28, 2022
Call for Papers: Societal, Organizational, and Personal Impacts of 2001-2021 National Security Decisions
February 27, 2022
Assessing China’s Strategy to “Hide Capabilities and Bide Time”
February 21, 2022
Options to Address Disinformation as a Cognitive Threat to the United States
February 14, 2022
Assessing Strategy and Organized Crime
February 7, 2022
Options to Address the Risk from Elected Officials Concurrently in the National Guard or Reserves
January 31, 2022
An Assessment of Nigeria’s Security Situation in 2021
January 24, 2022
Assessing the Cognitive Threat Posed by Technology Discourses Intended to Address Adversary Grey Zone Activities
January 17, 2022
Options to Counter Foreign Influence Operations Targeting Servicemember and Veterans
January 3, 2022
Call for Papers: Cognitive Threats
December 30, 2021
Analyzing Social Media as a Means to Undermine the United States
December 27, 2021
2022 Call for Papers Topics
December 26, 2021
McMaster, Afghanistan, and the Praetorian Mindset
December 20, 2021
Assessing Russian Use of Social Media as a Means to Influence U.S. Policy
December 13, 2021
Assessing the Threat from Social Media Enabled Domestic Extremism in an Era of Stagnant Political Imagination
November 29, 2021
Assessing Contemporary Deterrence Parallel to Netflix’s Squid Game
November 22, 2021
Assessing the Impact of U.S. Forces on Pearl Harbor Heeding Multiple Warnings on December 7, 1941
November 8, 2021
Call for Papers: Social Media and National Security
October 31, 2021
Assessing Airborne Status in U.S. Army Special Operations Forces
October 18, 2021
Options to Make COVID19 Lessons Learned Permanent at the United Kingdom’s Intermediate Command and Staff Course (Land)
October 11, 2021
Options to Counter Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa
October 4, 2021
Assessing Australia’s Cyber-Attack Attribution Issues
September 27, 2021
Assessing the Alignment of U.S. Diplomatic and Military Power to Forestall Armed Conflict
September 20, 2021
Space, Climate, and Comprehensive Defense Options Below the Threshold of War
September 13, 2021
Assessing Shortcomings of the U.S. Approach for Addressing Conflict Below the Threshold of War
September 6, 2021
Call for Papers: Cyber Integration — Vertical and Horizontal
September 5, 2021
An Assessment of Capability Gaps that Contribute to Fighting Below the Threshold of War
August 30, 2021
Assessing the Effect of the United Kingdom’s Integrated Review on Operations Below the Threshold of War
August 23, 2021
Assessing the April 2021 Conflict Between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and the Impotency of Regional International Organizations
August 9, 2021
Assessing a Situation where the Mission is a Headline
July 26, 2021
Assessing Agile Gaming: War is Hard, Wargames Don’t Have to Be
July 12, 2021
Assessing Wargame Effectiveness: Using Natural Language Processing to Evaluate Wargaming Dynamics and Outcomes
July 5, 2021
Call for Papers: Prevailing in Conflict Below the Threshold of War
June 30, 2021
Options to Increase Diversity by Forging Pathways into the Wargaming Profession
June 28, 2021
Assessing Wargaming in Turkey
June 21, 2021
Assessing Practical Educational Wargaming
June 14, 2021
Assessing U.S. Army Diversity Efforts in the Context of Great Power Competition
June 7, 2021
Assessing Wargaming in New Zealand
May 31, 2021
U.S. Options to Counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative
May 24, 2021
Assessing the Impact of a Kriegsspiel 2.0 in Modern Leadership and Command Training
May 17, 2021
Organizing for Large-Scale Maritime Combat Operations
May 3, 2021
Call for Papers / Georgetown University Wargaming Society: Wargaming
May 1, 2021
Options for a Dedicated Stability Operations Force Supporting Large Scale Combat Operations
April 26, 2021
Assessing the Value of the Lariat Advance Exercise Relative to the Louisiana Maneuvers for Preparing the U.S. Army for Large-Scale Combat Operations
April 19, 2021
Options to Ensure the Best Indo-Pacific Policy in the U.S. Department of Defense
April 12, 2021
Options to Build U.S. Army Headquarters Elements for Large Scale Combat Operations
April 5, 2021
Assessing the Application of a Cold War Strategic Framework to Establish Norms in the Cyber Threat Environment
March 29, 2021
Assessing the Fungibility of U.S.-Soviet Competitive Strategies
March 22, 2021
Cold War Transferability, or Not: Assessing Industrial Constraints and Naval Power After Long Land Wars
March 21, 2021
Options to Apply Cold War-Like Security Institutions to the Indo-Pacific
March 15, 2021
Options for the Demilitarization of Security in Nigeria
March 8, 2021
Episode 0014: The Knocking the Rust Off Edition (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
March 6, 2021
Call for Papers: Organizing for Large Scale Combat Operations
March 6, 2021
Options to Improve Individual and Small Unit Readiness in Great Power Competition
March 1, 2021
Assessing Early Cold War Overestimations of Soviet Capabilities and Intent and its Applicability to Current U.S.- China Relations
February 22, 2021
The Merits and Perils of Containment: Assessing the American View of the Chinese Challenge
February 15, 2021
Options for the U.S. Towards Pakistan
February 8, 2021
The Challenge of Abstraction: Assessing Cold War Analogies to the Present Period
February 1, 2021
Assessing United States Military Modernization Priorities
January 25, 2021
Can You Have it All? – Options for Readying for Both Stability and Large Scale Combat Operations
January 20, 2021
U.S. Options to Incentivize People’s Republic of China Behavior
January 18, 2021
Options to Enhance Security in U.S. Networked Combat Systems
January 11, 2021
Options to Prioritize People and Improve Readiness: Decreasing OPTEMPO to Increase Learning
January 4, 2021
Assessment of the Use of Poisons as the Weapon of Choice in Putin’s Russia
December 28, 2020
Call for Papers: Cold War Transferability or Lack Thereof
December 27, 2020
Assessing the Role of Armed Forces in Activities Below the Threshold of War
December 21, 2020
U.S. Military Force Deployment Options to Deter China
December 14, 2020
Assessing Ukraine’s Return to Stability
December 9, 2020
An Assessment of Realism in American Foreign Policy
December 7, 2020
Assessing the Impact of the Information Domain on the Classic Security Dilemma from Realist Theory
December 2, 2020
An Assessment of the National Security Implications of First Contact
November 30, 2020
Targeting North Atlantic Treaty Organization Article 5: Assessing Enhanced Forward Presence as a Below War Threshold Response
November 25, 2020
Options to Improve U.S. Army Ground Combat Platform Research and Development
November 23, 2020
Simple Lethality: Assessing the Potential for Agricultural Unmanned Aerial and Ground Systems to Deploy Biological or Chemical Weapons
November 18, 2020
Assessing Morocco’s Below War Threshold Activities in Spanish Enclaves in North of Africa and the Canary Islands
November 16, 2020
Writing Contest Results — Below Threshold Competition: China
November 13, 2020
Assessment of Opportunities to Engage with the Chinese Film Market
November 11, 2020
Assessing the Role of Civil Government Agencies in Irregular Warfare
November 9, 2020
U.S. Options for Countering the Belt and Road Initiative in Africa
November 4, 2020
An Assessment of the American National Interest in Sino-American Competition
November 2, 2020
An Assessment of Chinese Mercantilism as a Dual Circulation Strategy with Implications for U.S. Strategy
October 30, 2020
Options to Decrease Trade Tensions Between the U.S. and China
October 28, 2020
2021 Call for Papers Topics
October 27, 2020
Options for the U.S. to Counter China’s Disruptive Economic Activities
October 26, 2020
Call for Papers: Readiness
October 25, 2020
Assessing the Impact of Dialectical Materialism on Xi Jinping’s Strategic Thinking
October 23, 2020
U.S. Options for Subversion within China
October 21, 2020
Below Threshold Options for China against the U.S.
October 19, 2020
Options for Taiwan to Better Compete with China
October 14, 2020
Assessment of Sino-Russian Strategic Competition in Africa
October 12, 2020
Options for Altering Global Energy Developments to America’s Advantage and China’s Disadvantage
October 7, 2020
Assessing the U.S. and China Competition for Brazilian 5G
October 5, 2020
Minerals, Minds, and Accommodation: U.S. Options Against China
September 30, 2020
Assessing How Countries Can Compete with Chinese Hybrid Tactics Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict
September 28, 2020
Assessing the Development of Chinese Soft Power in Central Asia
September 23, 2020
U.S. Below War Threshold Options Against China
September 21, 2020
Options to Manage the 2020 Election Cyber Threat Landscape
September 18, 2020
Alternative Future: Options to Address China’s Reaction to COVID-19 and Growing Anti-Chinese Sentiment
September 16, 2020
Boxing Out: Assessing the United States’ Cultural Soft Power Advantage in Africa Over China
September 14, 2020
2020 Civil Affairs Association / Eunomia Journal Writing Contest Results
September 11, 2020
Assessing Religion, Law, Reform, and Human Factors in Afghanistan 2035
September 9, 2020
Assessment on the 2035 Sino-U.S. Conflict in Africa Below the Level of War
September 7, 2020
Assessing the Impact of Defining Lone Actor Terrorism in the U.S.
September 4, 2020
An Assessment of the Irrelevance of State Borders in 2035
September 2, 2020
Call for Papers: Words Ending in Ist and Ism
September 1, 2020
Assessing the U.S. Shift to Great Power Competition and the Risk from North Korea
August 31, 2020
Options for Ukraine to Address the Impact of the Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline
August 26, 2020
Alternative History: The Newburgh Conspiracy Succeeds — An After-Action Review
August 24, 2020
Alternative History: Options Other than the Doolittle Raid to Strike Japan After Pearl Harbor
August 19, 2020
Assessing the Chinese Diaspora as Key to Southeast Asian Human Factor Influence Through 2035
August 17, 2020
Assessing the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Surreptitious Artificial Intelligence Build-Up
August 14, 2020
Alternative Future: The Perils of Trading Artificial Intelligence for Analysis in the U.S. Intelligence Community
August 12, 2020
Alternative Future: Assessing Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Performance in the Third Chechen War
August 10, 2020
Assessing the Dependency of U.S. Below Threshold Competition on Department of State Modernization
August 5, 2020
Assessing the Relationship Between the United States and Saudi Arabia –An Unethical Partnership with Multiple Purposes?
August 3, 2020
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
July 29, 2020
Options for African Nations Regarding Economic Collaboration with the U.S. and China
July 27, 2020
Assessing the Paradox of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Expansion
July 22, 2020
Alternative Future: An Assessment of U.S. Re-Engagement with Hungary in 2035
July 20, 2020
Assessment of a Tutoring Model as a Replacement for Conventional Teaching and Learning
July 15, 2020
Assessing African Strategic Needs to Counter Undue Chinese Influence
July 13, 2020
Options for the United States to Compete with China Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict
July 8, 2020
A Wicked Cultural Problem: Options for Combating New Tribalism in 2035
July 6, 2020
Call for Papers: Activities Below the Threshold of War
July 5, 2020
Options for a Five Eyes Response to Below Threshold Competition with China
July 1, 2020
U.S. Options for a Consistent Response to Cyberattacks
June 29, 2020
Options for the Deployment of Robots on the Battlefield
June 24, 2020
Options for the U.S. to Wage Conflict in the Cognitive Domain
June 22, 2020
Assessing China as a Complex Competitor and its Continued Evolution of Tactics Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict
June 17, 2020
An Assessment of the U.S. Army’s Civil Affairs’ Capability to Provide Commanders with Improved Situational Awareness in Population-Centric Operations
June 15, 2020
Assessing the Role of Career Diplomats in National Security
June 10, 2020
Assessing China’s Civil and Military Crisis Response Capabilities
June 8, 2020
Assessing Iran in 2020 Regarding the United Nations Arms Embargo and the U.S. Elections
June 5, 2020
Assessment of the Virtual Societal Warfare Environment of 2035
June 3, 2020
Assessing How India’s ‘Fourth Arm of Defence’ Decreased the United States’ Munitions
June 1, 2020
U.S. Aircraft Basing Options in Competition and Conflict with China
May 27, 2020
Assessing China’s Economic Influence in Latin America
May 25, 2020
Assessing Russia’s Pursuit of Great Power
May 20, 2020
Assessing the Threat posed by Artificial Intelligence and Computational Propaganda
May 18, 2020
Assessing 9/11 Lessons and the Way Ahead for Homeland Defense Against Small Unmanned Aerial Systems
May 13, 2020
An Assessment of U.S. Leadership Potential in Asia via the Trans-Pacific Partnership
May 11, 2020
Assessing COVID-19’s Impact on the Philippines in the Context of Great Power Competition
May 6, 2020
Options for a United States Counterterrorism Strategy in Africa
May 4, 2020
Call for Papers: Alternative Futures & Alternative Histories
May 3, 2020
Assessing the Kettlebell One Arm Long Cycle for the U.S. Army Physical Fitness Test
April 27, 2020
U.S. Army Options for Professional Military Education Amidst COVID-19
April 20, 2020
Assessing the Effect of Military Aid on Both Donor and Receiver
April 13, 2020
Civil Affairs Association and Divergent Options Writing Contest
April 7, 2020
Options to Penetrate Adversary Anti Access / Area Denial (A2/AD) Systems
March 30, 2020
Assessing U.S. Relative Decline
March 23, 2020
An Assessment of the Concept of Competition as a Foundation to Military Planning
March 16, 2020
Assessing U.S. Use of Coercive Diplomacy
March 8, 2020
An Assessment of Nationalism’s Impact on Security and Stability in Switzerland
March 2, 2020
Call for Papers: Emerging Technologies and Emerging Concepts
February 29, 2020
Writing Contest — Below Threshold Competition: China
February 29, 2020
Options for a Consistent U.S. Approach to Humanitarian Intervention
February 24, 2020
U.S. Options to Combat Chinese Technological Hegemony
February 10, 2020
Options for a Joint Support Service
February 3, 2020
Assessing a U.S. Policy of Détente with China
January 27, 2020
An Assessment of the Global War on Terror via Deterrence Theory
January 20, 2020
An Assessment of the Forest Brothers’ Response to Invasion of the Baltics
January 13, 2020
An Assessment of the National Security Impact of Digital Sovereignty
January 6, 2020
Call for Papers: Ethics in National Security
December 31, 2019
Assessment of the U.S. Presence in Afghanistan
December 30, 2019
Options for Deterrence Below Armed Conflict
December 23, 2019
Assessing the Deterrence Value of the F-35 in Syria
December 16, 2019
Divergent Options at the 2019 #NatSecGirlSquad Conference
December 11, 2019
Assessing the Relationship of Sikh-Canadians with Canada and India
December 9, 2019
Assessment of Increased Chinese Strategic Presence in Afghanistan
December 2, 2019
Assessing North Korea’s Cyber Evolution
November 25, 2019
Assessment of Militia Forces as a Model for Recruitment and Retention in Cyber Security Forces
November 18, 2019
2020 Call for Papers Topics
November 16, 2019
An Assessment of the Current State of U.S. Cyber Civil Defense
November 11, 2019
Assessing Black Swans and their Pre-Incident Indicators
November 4, 2019
Call for Papers: Deterrence and Détente
October 31, 2019
Alternative History: An Assessment of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Azhdar Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
October 28, 2019
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ Options to Counter the 1941 German Invasion
October 24, 2019
U.S. Options to Respond to North Vietnam’s 1973 Violations of the Paris Peace Accords
October 21, 2019
Alternative Future: Assessment of the Effects of the Loss of the American Lease on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti
October 17, 2019
Alternative Futures: An Assessment of the 2040 Security Environment absent Great Power Competition
October 14, 2019
Assessment of Right-Wing Militia Extremism in the United States
October 7, 2019
Alternative Futures: Assessment of the 2027 Afghan Opium Trade
October 3, 2019
Assessment of U.S. Counterinsurgency Efforts in Laos 1954-1962
September 30, 2019
Alternative Futures: Assessment of the Afghanistan Bureau 2001-2021
September 23, 2019
Writing Contest Winners!
September 20, 2019
Germany’s Options in the First Moroccan Crisis
September 19, 2019
Assessment of the American-led Constabulary during the American Occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934 in Comparison to Later Occupations
September 16, 2019
Assessment of Nationalism in Bosnia and its Ramifications for Foreign Intervention
September 12, 2019
An Assessment of Air Force Advising Concepts in Small Wars, “Paper Falcons”
September 9, 2019
Assessment of the European Intervention Initiative and Overcoming Nationalist Barriers
September 6, 2019
Assessing the Goals of U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts in Somalia
September 5, 2019
Options for New Zealand’s National Security Posture
September 2, 2019
Call for Papers: Cyber and Space
August 31, 2019
Assessment of the Inclusiveness of American Nationalism
August 29, 2019
Turning “Small” Wars into “Big” Wars: How Tacticians Endanger Us All
August 26, 2019
Assessment of Civilian Next-Generation Knowledge Management Systems for Managing Civil Information
August 19, 2019
Assessment of French Intervention in the Sahel Region, 2013-2019
August 12, 2019
Assessment of U.S. Strategic Goals Through Peacekeeping Operations in the 1982 Lebanon Intervention
August 8, 2019
Strategic Futures: Nigerian Air Force Requirements In The Post Insurgency Era
August 6, 2019
An Assessment of the Private Military Industry and its Role in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
August 5, 2019
Strategic Futures: Fostering Turkish-Nigerian Strategic Cooperation
August 3, 2019
Assessment of U.S. Involvement to Counter Hutu Extremists’ Plans for Tutsi Genocide in Early 1994
July 29, 2019
Assessing the Jefferson Administration’s Actions During the First Barbary Wars and their Impact on U.S. Small War Policy
July 25, 2019
Options for the Nigerian Air Force to go on the Offensive in the Counterinsurgency War
July 22, 2019
Options for U.S. Use of Private Military and Security Companies
July 15, 2019
Assessment of the Existential Threat Posed by a United Biafran and Ambazonian Separatist Front in West Africa
July 11, 2019
Assessment of Rising Extremism in the Central Sahel
July 8, 2019
Options for the U.S. Department of Defense to Balance Peer Competition with Military Operations Other Than War
July 1, 2019
Call for Papers: Alternative Futures and Alternative Histories
June 30, 2019
Options for Maintaining Counterinsurgency Capabilities in the Great Power Era
June 27, 2019
Assessment of the Legion as the Ideal Small Wars Force Structure
June 24, 2019
Assessment of the Role of Small Wars within the Evolving Paradigm of Great Power Competition in a Multipolar World
June 17, 2019
Counterfactual: Assessment of Risks to the American Reunification Referendum by the Confederate States of America’s Counterinsurgency Campaign in Cuba
June 13, 2019
Assessment of the Effects of Chinese Nationalism on China’s Foreign Policy
June 10, 2019
An Assessment of the U.S. Punitive Expedition of 1916
June 3, 2019
#PartnerArticle Assessing Nigeria’s Vulnerability To Extreme Weather Events
May 29, 2019
#PartnerArticle Assessing The Impacts Of A Potential US-Iran War On Nigeria
May 28, 2019
Episode 0013: Spies and Satire with Alex Finley (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
May 27, 2019
Options for Europe to Address Climate Refugee Migration
May 27, 2019
Book Review: “Victor in the Jungle” by Alex Finley
May 22, 2019
Assessment of the Threat of Nationalism to the State Power of Democracies in the Information Age
May 20, 2019
Assessment of the Efficacy of the French Military Intervention in the Northern Mali Conflict
May 13, 2019
Assessment of the Operational Implications of 21st Century Subterranean Conflict
May 8, 2019
An Assessment of Population Relocation in 21st Century Counterinsurgencies
May 6, 2019
Call for Papers: Contemporary Conflict
April 30, 2019
An Assessment of the Small Wars Manual as an Implementation Model for Strategic Influence in Contemporary and Future Warfare
April 29, 2019
#PartnerArticle GICS Report: Survival and Expansion, the Islamic State’s West African Province
April 23, 2019
Assessing U.S. Space-Focused Governing Documents from the Astropolitik Model of State Competition
April 22, 2019
Options to Bridge the U.S. Department of Defense – Silicon Valley Gap with Cyber Foreign Area Officers
April 15, 2019
An Assessment of the Threat Posed by Increased Nationalist Movements in Europe
April 15, 2019
Options to Address U.S. Federal Government Budget Process Dysfunction
April 8, 2019
Assessment of the Impacts of Saudi Arabia’s Vision2030 on U.S. Efforts to Confront Iran
April 1, 2019
Options for the West to Address Russia’s Unconventional Tactics
March 25, 2019
#PartnerArticle – Q & A: Assessing a Second Buhari Presidency in Nigeria
March 22, 2019
#NatSecGirlSquad: The Conference Edition White Paper — The Future of U.S. Relations and Security in the Western Hemisphere Panel
March 18, 2019
Options for Peace in the Continuing War in Afghanistan
March 10, 2019
A Thank You to our Strategic Advisors!
March 5, 2019
An Assessment of Daesh’s Strategic Communication Efforts to Recruit in Syria
March 4, 2019
#PartnerArticle – Briefing Note: Insurgent Activities In Northeast Nigeria And The 2019 Elections
March 2, 2019
Call for Papers: Nationalism and Extremism
March 2, 2019
Episode 0012: Hollywood, the U.S. Military, and Civil-Military Relations (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
March 2, 2019
Small Wars Journal and Divergent Options Writing Contest
March 1, 2019
An Assessment of the Role of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Future Warfare
February 25, 2019
#PartnerArticle – Sexual Enslavement of Women from the Lake Chad Conflict, through the Gidan Drama System
February 21, 2019
Does Rising Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
February 18, 2019
Alternative Futures: United Kingdom Options in Venezuela
February 11, 2019
Assessing Military Thought in Post-Soviet Russia
February 4, 2019
#NatSecGirl Squad: The Conference Edition White Paper — The Role of the Intelligence Community in National Security and Defense
January 28, 2019
Assessing the Failure of Minsk II in Ukraine and the Success of the 2008 Ceasefire in Georgia
January 21, 2019
#PartnerArticle – Assessing Nigerian Air Power Employment In Counter Insurgency Operations
January 17, 2019
An Assessment Of Britain’s Relations With Nigeria In 2018
January 17, 2019
An Assessment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Cyber Strategy and Cyber Challenges
January 14, 2019
Episode 0011: U.S.-China Relations with Special Guest Ali Wyne (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
January 13, 2019
Options for the U.S. Middle East Strategic Alliance
January 8, 2019
#NatSecGirl Squad: The Conference Edition White Paper — Communicating with Non-Experts
January 7, 2019
Partnership Announcement: Conflict Studies And Analysis Project (CSAAP)
January 4, 2019
Call for Papers: The Next Pivot / The Next Threat
January 1, 2019
Assessment of the Future of “Russkiy Mir” in Russia’s Grand Strategy
December 31, 2018
Options for Countering the Rise of Chinese Private Military Contractors
December 24, 2018
Assessing the Widening Russian Presence in Africa
December 17, 2018
Announcing the Divergent Options Writer’s Forum
December 16, 2018
Episode 0010: The 1986 Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
December 12, 2018
Assessment of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Forces in the Baltic States: Credible Deterrent or Paper Tiger?
December 10, 2018
An Assessment of the 2018 U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Strategy Summary
December 3, 2018
Great Britain’s Options After Departing the European Union
November 26, 2018
2019 Call for Papers Schedule
November 20, 2018
An Assessment of U.S. Navy Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Options at Leyte Gulf
November 19, 2018
Episode 0009: Guest Loren DeJonge Schulman / The Draft (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
November 18, 2018
Options at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
November 12, 2018
Assessing Turkey’s Future Role in the Middle East
November 5, 2018
Call for Papers: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union, Russia, & the former Soviet Republics
November 1, 2018
Options for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Five Eyes Alliance
October 29, 2018
Assessment of Current Efforts to Fight the Islamic State
October 22, 2018
**CORRECTED** Episode 0008: Guest Tamara Cofman Wittes / Human Rights & National Security (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
October 21, 2018
#NatSecGirlSquad: Conference Edition
October 20, 2018
Alternative Futures: Argentina Attempts a Second Annexation of the Falkland Islands
October 15, 2018
An Assessment of the Iranian Ballistic Missile Arsenal and Regional Preparedness
October 8, 2018
Episode 0007: The Great Books Edition (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
October 4, 2018
Assessment of Russia’s Cyber Relations with the U.S. and its Allies
October 1, 2018
Alternative Futures: An Assessment of Ongoing North Korean Troop Rotations to Finland
September 24, 2018
Assessment of the Role of Cyber Power in Interstate Conflict
September 17, 2018
Alternative Futures: U.S. Options for a Chinese Invasion of North Korea (Part 3 of 3)
September 10, 2018
Assessment of North Korean Strategy in Preparation for High Level Diplomacy in September 2018
September 7, 2018
Alternative Futures: South Korea Options for a Chinese Invasion of North Korea (Part 2 of 3)
September 3, 2018
Call for Papers: The Middle East
August 31, 2018
Alternative Futures: North Korea Options for a Chinese Invasion (Part 1 of 3)
August 27, 2018
Assessment of the North Korean Cyberattack on Sony Pictures
August 20, 2018
Episode 0006: The Politicization of Retired U.S. Military Generals and Admirals (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
August 18, 2018
An Assessment of U.S. Women in Islamic State-related Cases
August 13, 2018
Alternative Futures: Options for the Deployment of Iraqi Peacekeepers
August 6, 2018
U.S. Options for Responding to Sharp Power Threats
July 30, 2018
Divergent Trajectories for U.S. Military Power
July 23, 2018
An Assessment of the Likely Roles of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems in the Near Future
July 16, 2018
Episode 0005: Mission Creep (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
July 9, 2018
Assessment of the Security and Political Threat Posed by a “Post-Putin” Russia in 2040
July 9, 2018
Options to Manage the Risks of Integrating Artificial Intelligence into National Security and Critical Industry Organizations
July 2, 2018
Call for Papers: Cyberspace
June 29, 2018
Assessment of Al-Qaeda’s Enduring Threat Seven Years After Osama bin Laden’s Death
June 25, 2018
An Assessment of Information Warfare as a Cybersecurity Issue
June 18, 2018
Assessment of the Military Implication of Chinese Investment in the Port of Djibouti
June 11, 2018
Assessing How Article 51 of the United Nations Charter Prevents Conflict Escalation
June 4, 2018
Episode 0004: Guest Kori Schake (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
May 28, 2018
The Conflict of a New Home: African Migrants and the Push/Pull Factors during Acculturation
May 28, 2018
Options for U.S. Naval Force Posture in East Africa
May 21, 2018
Assessment of Opération Turquoise: The Paradoxical French-led Humanitarian Military Intervention During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
May 14, 2018
Options to Address Terrorism Financing in Australia
May 7, 2018
Episode 0003: Military Planning Constructs (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
May 2, 2018
Assessment of the Security Implications of Environmental Crime in Africa
April 30, 2018
Call for Papers: Alternative Futures
April 30, 2018
Options for Decentralized Local Defence Forces in Iraq & Afghanistan
April 23, 2018
Assessment of the How the Media Overstates the Threat Posed by the Erroneously Called ‘Lone-Wolves’
April 16, 2018
Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Turkish Cyber Army
April 9, 2018
Assessment of Infrastructure Development in Africa and Shifting Chinese Foreign Policy
April 2, 2018
Episode 0002: U.S. & PRC Maritime Competition (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
March 26, 2018
Options to Manage the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia’s Nuclear Ambitions
March 26, 2018
Assessment of the Role of Authoritarianism in Fomenting Extremism in the Arab World
March 19, 2018
Options for the U.S. to Deter China in the East & South China Seas
March 12, 2018
Options for the Strategic Goals of the Royal Canadian Navy
March 12, 2018
China’s Options Towards the (Re)emerging Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
March 5, 2018
Options to Build Local Capabilities to Stabilise the Lake Chad Region
March 5, 2018
Call for Papers: The Pacific
March 3, 2018
Episode 0001: U.S. National Security Strategy (The Smell of Victory Podcast by Divergent Options)
March 2, 2018
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Options for the U.S. Presence in Syria
February 26, 2018
Assessment of Violent Extremism: The Push of Identity Crisis and the Pull of Ideologies
February 26, 2018
Assessing Al Suri’s Individual Terrorism Jihadist Against Lone Wolves
February 19, 2018
The Impact of Extremists in Civil War: Syria’s Shabbiha
February 12, 2018
An Assessment of Violent Extremist Use of Social Media Technologies
February 5, 2018
An Assessment of the Conceptualizing of Charisma / Persuasion and Coercion
January 29, 2018
An Historic Assessment of the Role and Participation of Women as Active Agents in Violent Extremist Organizations
January 22, 2018
Assessment of the Factors Leading to the Recruitment of Violent Extremists
January 15, 2018
An Australian Perspective on Identity, Social Media, and Ideology as Drivers for Violent Extremism
January 8, 2018
Playing “Good Jihadi-Bad Jihadi”
January 1, 2018
Call for Papers: Africa
December 28, 2017
Assessment on the Revised Use of Afghan Militias
December 25, 2017
Assessment of the Trump Administration’s Communications with the “Muslim World”
December 18, 2017
Assessment of the Lone Wolf Terrorist Concept
December 11, 2017
Writing Contest Winners
December 10, 2017
2018 Call for Papers Schedule
December 9, 2017
Options for Streamlining U.S. Department of Defense Decision Making
December 4, 2017
Assessment of the Threat to Southeast Asia Posed by Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing
November 27, 2017
Options for U.S. National Service
November 20, 2017
Assessment of U.S. Cyber Command’s Elevation to Unified Combatant Command
November 13, 2017
Assessment of Canada’s Fighter Replacement Process
November 6, 2017
Call for Papers: Violent Extremism
November 2, 2017
Assessment of North Korea’s Illicit Trafficking Activities
October 30, 2017
Assessment of the Potential Security Challenges Posed by Water Security Between Afghanistan and Iran
October 23, 2017
Assessment of Possible Updates to the National Security Act of 1947
October 16, 2017
Victory Over the Potomac: Alternatives to Inevitable Strategic Failure
October 9, 2017
Assessment of North Korea’s Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Small Arms
October 2, 2017
Options for Constitutional Change in Afghanistan
September 25, 2017
U.S. Options for Basing Forces to Deter North Korea
September 18, 2017
Assessment of the United States-China Power Transition and the New World Order
September 11, 2017
Options for U.S. National Guard Defense of Cyberspace
September 4, 2017
Call for Papers: Environmental Factors and Resource Scarcity as a Conflict Driver
September 3, 2017
Assessment of Cryptocurrencies and Their Potential for Criminal Use
August 28, 2017
Assessment of Alexander Zakharchenko’s “Malorossiya” Proposition
August 21, 2017
Assessment of the Search for Security in the Eastern Baltic
August 14, 2017
Great Power Interaction: United States Options Towards Iran
August 7, 2017
United States’ Options to North Korea Missile Development
July 31, 2017
People’s Republic of China Options Toward North Korea
July 24, 2017
Options for a Future Strategy for the Afghan Taliban
July 17, 2017
Options for United States Military Assistance to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq
July 10, 2017
Assessment of Libya-Trained Terrorists’ External Attack Capability
July 3, 2017
Options for Avoiding U.S. Complicity for Coalition War Crimes in Yemen
June 29, 2017
Options for Next Generation Blue Force Biometrics
June 26, 2017
Announcing the Assessment Paper!
June 23, 2017
Authorization for the Use of Military Force Options
June 22, 2017
Options to Counter Piracy in the Horn of Africa
June 19, 2017
Divergent Options on The Loopcast
June 16, 2017
U.S. Options to Address a Growing People’s Republic of China Army (Navy)
June 15, 2017
Call for Papers: Options or Assessments for Great Power Interaction
June 14, 2017
Hamas Policy Options Amidst Regional & Internal Change
June 12, 2017
Options for Paying Ransoms to Advanced Persistent Threat Actors
June 8, 2017
Options for Defining “Acts of War” in Cyberspace
June 5, 2017
“Do You Have A Flag?” – Egyptian Political Upheaval & Cyberspace Attribution
June 1, 2017
U.S. Options to Develop a Cyberspace Influence Capability
May 29, 2017
Evolution of U.S. Cyber Operations and Information Warfare
May 25, 2017
Cyber Vulnerabilities in U.S. Law Enforcement & Public Safety Communication Networks
May 22, 2017
U.S. Diplomacy Options for Security & Adaptability in Cyberspace
May 18, 2017
Options for Private Sector Hacking Back
May 15, 2017
Options to Deter Cyber-Intrusions into Non-Government Computers
May 11, 2017
Trump Administration Options Towards Iran
May 8, 2017
Options for Bougainville Independence
May 4, 2017
Options for United States Intelligence Community Analytical Tools
May 1, 2017
Options for Managing Xinjiang Uighur Ethnic Tensions
April 27, 2017
70th Anniversary Writing Contest: Options for a New U.S. National Security Act
April 24, 2017
Options to Evolve U.S. Law Enforcement and Public Safety Training
April 24, 2017
Islamic State Options: Pivot towards Australia
April 20, 2017
Options for U.S. Sanctions Towards Russia for Aggression in Ukraine
April 17, 2017
U.S. Options for Regime Change in Syria
April 13, 2017
America First Foreign Policy in the South China Sea
April 10, 2017
U.S. Options for the People’s Republic of China’s Maritime Militias
April 6, 2017
Options for the People’s Republic of China following the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1996
April 3, 2017
South China Sea Options: An Alternative Route
March 30, 2017
U.S. Partnership Options in the South China Sea
March 27, 2017
Options for the Philippines in the South China Sea
March 23, 2017
U.S. Options Towards a Rising People’s Republic of China
March 20, 2017
South China Sea Options: The Road to Taiwan
March 16, 2017
Options for Singapore in the South China Sea
March 13, 2017
Call for Papers: Options in Cyberspace
March 12, 2017
Anti-Access / Area Denial Options in the South China Sea
March 9, 2017
South China Sea: Continuous U.S. Presence or a new Law of the Sea Treaty
March 6, 2017
Strategic Advisory Board
March 5, 2017
Options to Arm Volunteer Territorial Defense Battalions in Ukraine
March 2, 2017
Government of Iraq Options for Islamic State Detainees
February 27, 2017
Divergent Options Social Event – Thursday, April 27, 2017 – 6pm to 8pm – Arlington, VA
February 25, 2017
Blurred lines: Options for Security & Immigration in Europe
February 23, 2017
Future Risk & Surge: Brian Christopher Darling
February 20, 2017
Divergent Options on Blogs of War / Covert Contact Podcast
February 17, 2017
Future Risk & Surge: Chris Townsend
February 16, 2017
Future Risk & Surge: Nathan Wike
February 13, 2017
Options for Mexico with the Trump Administration
February 9, 2017
U.S. Options for Israel: Accept or Reject Settlement Activities
February 6, 2017
Israel Options: Continue Expansion or Recognize Palestine
February 2, 2017
One State & Two State Options in Israel & Palestine
January 30, 2017
Options for the Baltic States in an Uncertain Security Environment
January 26, 2017
Options to Deter Russia Through U.S.-NATO Military Exercises
January 23, 2017
Options to Increase Arab Middle East Stability Through Economic Investment
January 19, 2017
Syria Options: U.S. Grand Strategy
January 16, 2017
Syria Options: Refugee Preparation & Resettlement
January 12, 2017
Egyptian Syriana: A Gulf-Funded Russian Roulette
January 9, 2017
Syria Options: Russian Naval Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
January 5, 2017
Call for Papers: Options in the South China Sea
January 3, 2017
Syria Options: Safe Zone
January 2, 2017
Syria Options: Involving China as a Major Broker in Syria Peace Talks
December 29, 2016
Rapid Call For Papers: Israel & Palestine
December 28, 2016
Syria Options: No Fly Zone & Syrians Rebuilding Syria Program
December 26, 2016
Syria Options: Military & Political Pressure
December 22, 2016
Syria Options: No Fly Zone & Remove Assad
December 19, 2016
Red Team Options for Syria: The Fall of Raqqa, Syria from an Islamic State Perspective
December 15, 2016
Options for Turkey in Syria
December 12, 2016
Future Risk & Surge: A U.S. Army War College & Divergent Options Call for Papers
December 7, 2016
Call For Papers: Syria
November 1, 2016
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