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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
An Assessment of Adversarial Exploitation of the Seams Between Geographic Combatant Commands
November 21, 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
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
An Assessment of Critical Minerals, Strategic Competition, and Ukraine
March 9, 2025
Assessing the Implications of the Fall of Assad on the Rules Based Order
January 26, 2025
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
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
Assessing Strategic Competition, Non-State Armed Groups, and Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Implications for the West and the Rules Based Order
July 15, 2024
An Assessment of the Nuclear Ambiguity Caused by the Islamic Republic of Iran
July 8, 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
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
Assessing the Impact of the Red Sea Crisis on the Rules Based International Order: Implications for the Indo-Pacific
April 22, 2024
Assessing the Benefits of a United States Foreign Legion
March 4, 2024
January 2024 Assessment of the Iranian Missile Arsenal and Regional Responses
February 5, 2024
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
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 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
Assessing the Need for the Battlefield Scavenger
January 30, 2023
Assessing Terrorism and Artificial Intelligence in 2050
January 9, 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
Assessment of the Risk of a Nuclear Exchange with Russia: Is the U.S. Whistling Past the Nuclear Graveyard?
November 14, 2022
Assessing the Role of China’s Aircraft Carriers in a Taiwan Invasion
July 11, 2022
Assessing China as a Superpower
June 20, 2022
Assessing Superpowers in 2050 – The Great Game Redefined
May 30, 2022
Assessing the Benefits of India’s Frustrating Pragmatic Energy
May 9, 2022
An Assessment of Thinking Big About Future Warfare
May 2, 2022
Assessing the Costs of Expecting Easy Victory
April 25, 2022
Assessing the Tension Between Privacy and Innovation
April 11, 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
Assessing China as a Case Study in Cognitive Threats
February 28, 2022
Assessing China’s Strategy to “Hide Capabilities and Bide Time”
February 21, 2022
Assessing Strategy and Organized Crime
February 7, 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
Analyzing Social Media as a Means to Undermine the United States
December 27, 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 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
Assessing Airborne Status in U.S. Army Special Operations Forces
October 18, 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
Assessing Shortcomings of the U.S. Approach for Addressing Conflict Below the Threshold of War
September 6, 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
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
Assessing the Impact of a Kriegsspiel 2.0 in Modern Leadership and Command Training
May 17, 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
Assessing Early Cold War Overestimations of Soviet Capabilities and Intent and its Applicability to Current U.S.- China Relations
February 22, 2021
Assessment of the Use of Poisons as the Weapon of Choice in Putin’s Russia
December 28, 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
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
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
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
Assessing the Impact of Dialectical Materialism on Xi Jinping’s Strategic Thinking
October 23, 2020
Assessment of Sino-Russian Strategic Competition in Africa
October 12, 2020
Assessing the U.S. and China Competition for Brazilian 5G
October 5, 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
Boxing Out: Assessing the United States’ Cultural Soft Power Advantage in Africa Over China
September 14, 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
Assessing the U.S. Shift to Great Power Competition and the Risk from North Korea
August 31, 2020
Alternative History: The Newburgh Conspiracy Succeeds — An After-Action Review
August 24, 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 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
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
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
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
Assessing the Kettlebell One Arm Long Cycle for the U.S. Army Physical Fitness Test
April 27, 2020
Assessing the Effect of Military Aid on Both Donor and Receiver
April 13, 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
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
Assessment of the U.S. Presence in Afghanistan
December 30, 2019
Assessing the Deterrence Value of the F-35 in Syria
December 16, 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
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
Alternative History: An Assessment of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Azhdar Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
October 28, 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
Assessment of the American-led Constabulary during the American Occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934 in Comparison to Later Occupations
September 16, 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
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
An Assessment of the Private Military Industry and its Role in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
August 5, 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
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
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
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
An Assessment of the Small Wars Manual as an Implementation Model for Strategic Influence in Contemporary and Future Warfare
April 29, 2019
Assessing U.S. Space-Focused Governing Documents from the Astropolitik Model of State Competition
April 22, 2019
An Assessment of the Threat Posed by Increased Nationalist Movements in Europe
April 15, 2019
Assessment of the Impacts of Saudi Arabia’s Vision2030 on U.S. Efforts to Confront Iran
April 1, 2019
An Assessment of Daesh’s Strategic Communication Efforts to Recruit in Syria
March 4, 2019
An Assessment of the Role of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Future Warfare
February 25, 2019
Does Rising Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
February 18, 2019
Assessing Military Thought in Post-Soviet Russia
February 4, 2019
Assessing the Failure of Minsk II in Ukraine and the Success of the 2008 Ceasefire in Georgia
January 21, 2019
An Assessment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Cyber Strategy and Cyber Challenges
January 14, 2019
Assessment of the Future of “Russkiy Mir” in Russia’s Grand Strategy
December 31, 2018
Assessing the Widening Russian Presence in Africa
December 17, 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
An Assessment of U.S. Navy Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Options at Leyte Gulf
November 19, 2018
Assessing Turkey’s Future Role in the Middle East
November 5, 2018
Assessment of Current Efforts to Fight the Islamic State
October 22, 2018
An Assessment of the Iranian Ballistic Missile Arsenal and Regional Preparedness
October 8, 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
Assessment of North Korean Strategy in Preparation for High Level Diplomacy in September 2018
September 7, 2018
Assessment of the North Korean Cyberattack on Sony Pictures
August 20, 2018
An Assessment of U.S. Women in Islamic State-related Cases
August 13, 2018
Assessment of the Security and Political Threat Posed by a “Post-Putin” Russia in 2040
July 9, 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
The Conflict of a New Home: African Migrants and the Push/Pull Factors during Acculturation
May 28, 2018
Assessment of Opération Turquoise: The Paradoxical French-led Humanitarian Military Intervention During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
May 14, 2018
Assessment of the Security Implications of Environmental Crime in Africa
April 30, 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
Assessment of the Role of Authoritarianism in Fomenting Extremism in the Arab World
March 19, 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
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
Assessment of the Threat to Southeast Asia Posed by Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing
November 27, 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
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
Assessment of North Korea’s Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Small Arms
October 2, 2017
Assessment of the United States-China Power Transition and the New World Order
September 11, 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
Assessment of Libya-Trained Terrorists’ External Attack Capability
July 3, 2017
Announcing the Assessment Paper!
June 23, 2017
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