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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
Options for Continuing to Prepare for a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan in 2028 and Beyond
October 22, 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 Create a Meaningful U.S. National Security Strategy
February 8, 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
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
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
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
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
Options for the United States to Counter China’s Multi-Pronged Offensives in Taiwan
August 7, 2023
Assessing U.S. 1990s – 2000s China Trade Policy’s Effects on U.S. National Security
June 5, 2023
Options for the United States to Arm Anti-Assad Factions in Syria with Defensive Weapons
March 6, 2023
Options for the U.S. to Approach India as a Fellow Superpower
June 27, 2022
Assessing Superpowers in 2050 – The Great Game Redefined
May 30, 2022
Options for Defining the Next U.S. Defense Challenge
May 23, 2022
Assessing the Costs of Expecting Easy Victory
April 25, 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
Options to Address Disinformation as a Cognitive Threat to the United States
February 14, 2022
Options to Address the Risk from Elected Officials Concurrently in the National Guard or Reserves
January 31, 2022
Options to Counter Foreign Influence Operations Targeting Servicemember and Veterans
January 3, 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 the Threat from Social Media Enabled Domestic Extremism in an Era of Stagnant Political Imagination
November 29, 2021
Assessing the Impact of U.S. Forces on Pearl Harbor Heeding Multiple Warnings on December 7, 1941
November 8, 2021
Options to Counter Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa
October 4, 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
U.S. Options to Counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative
May 24, 2021
Organizing for Large-Scale Maritime Combat Operations
May 3, 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
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 Improve Individual and Small Unit Readiness in Great Power Competition
March 1, 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
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
U.S. Military Force Deployment Options to Deter China
December 14, 2020
An Assessment of Realism in American Foreign Policy
December 7, 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
Options for the U.S. to Counter China’s Disruptive Economic Activities
October 26, 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 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
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
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
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
Alternative History: Options Other than the Doolittle Raid to Strike Japan After Pearl Harbor
August 19, 2020
Assessing the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Surreptitious Artificial Intelligence Build-Up
August 14, 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
Alternative Future: An Assessment of U.S. Re-Engagement with Hungary in 2035
July 20, 2020
A Wicked Cultural Problem: Options for Combating New Tribalism in 2035
July 6, 2020
U.S. Options for a Consistent Response to Cyberattacks
June 29, 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
Assessing Iran in 2020 Regarding the United Nations Arms Embargo and the U.S. Elections
June 5, 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 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
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
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
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
An Assessment of the Current State of U.S. Cyber Civil Defense
November 11, 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
Assessment of Right-Wing Militia Extremism in the United States
October 7, 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
An Assessment of Air Force Advising Concepts in Small Wars, “Paper Falcons”
September 9, 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 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
Options for U.S. Use of Private Military and Security Companies
July 15, 2019
Options for the U.S. Department of Defense to Balance Peer Competition with Military Operations Other Than War
July 1, 2019
Options for Maintaining Counterinsurgency Capabilities in the Great Power Era
June 27, 2019
Counterfactual: Assessment of Risks to the American Reunification Referendum by the Confederate States of America’s Counterinsurgency Campaign in Cuba
June 13, 2019
An Assessment of the U.S. Punitive Expedition of 1916
June 3, 2019
An Assessment of the Small Wars Manual as an Implementation Model for Strategic Influence in Contemporary and Future Warfare
April 29, 2019
Options to Bridge the U.S. Department of Defense – Silicon Valley Gap with Cyber Foreign Area Officers
April 15, 2019
Options to Address U.S. Federal Government Budget Process Dysfunction
April 8, 2019
Options for Peace in the Continuing War in Afghanistan
March 10, 2019
Options for the U.S. Middle East Strategic Alliance
January 8, 2019
An Assessment of U.S. Navy Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Options at Leyte Gulf
November 19, 2018
Options at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
November 12, 2018
Options for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Five Eyes Alliance
October 29, 2018
An Assessment of the Iranian Ballistic Missile Arsenal and Regional Preparedness
October 8, 2018
Assessment of Russia’s Cyber Relations with the U.S. and its Allies
October 1, 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
An Assessment of U.S. Women in Islamic State-related Cases
August 13, 2018
U.S. Options for Responding to Sharp Power Threats
July 30, 2018
Divergent Trajectories for U.S. Military Power
July 23, 2018
Assessment of the Military Implication of Chinese Investment in the Port of Djibouti
June 11, 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
Options for Decentralized Local Defence Forces in Iraq & Afghanistan
April 23, 2018
Options for the U.S. to Deter China in the East & South China Seas
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
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
Options for Streamlining U.S. Department of Defense Decision Making
December 4, 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 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
Assessment of the Search for Security in the Eastern Baltic
August 14, 2017
Great Power Interaction: United States Options Towards Iran
August 7, 2017
People’s Republic of China Options Toward North Korea
July 24, 2017
Options for United States Military Assistance to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq
July 10, 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
Authorization for the Use of Military Force Options
June 22, 2017
U.S. Options to Address a Growing People’s Republic of China Army (Navy)
June 15, 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 for Bougainville Independence
May 4, 2017
Options for United States Intelligence Community Analytical Tools
May 1, 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
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
U.S. Partnership Options in the South China Sea
March 27, 2017
U.S. Options Towards a Rising People’s Republic of China
March 20, 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
U.S. Options for Israel: Accept or Reject Settlement Activities
February 6, 2017
Syria Options: U.S. Grand Strategy
January 16, 2017
Syria Options: Russian Naval Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
January 5, 2017
Syria Options: Safe Zone
January 2, 2017
Syria Options: Military & Political Pressure
December 22, 2016
Syria Options: No Fly Zone & Remove Assad
December 19, 2016
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