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Beyond a Pacific Defense Pact 2: Gray zone campaigns and activities conducted by China, North Korea, and Russia in the Indo-Pacific

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversariesallied resolve. , China, Cyber Espionage, cyber operations, Deterrence, Disinformation campaigns, economic coercion, gray zone, hybrid tactics, Indo-Pacific, Information Warfare, lawfare, maritime coercion, military provocations, North Korea, nuclear security architecture, regional stability, resilience, Russia, sanctions-evasion networks, strategic competition, strategic signalling

Beyond a Pacific Defense Pact 2: Gray zone campaigns and activities conducted by China, North Korea, and Russia in the Indo-Pacific

Natalie Treloar0 Comments

Published: April 6, 2026 Strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific is increasingly taking place in the “gray zone”—the space between routine state competition and open warfare. Rather than relying solely on…

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Redefining Espionage: The Unseen War for Technological Dominance

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesadaptive cyberattacks, anomaly detection, Artemis II, artificial intelligence, automated espionage, big data analysis, counter-disinformation, counterintelligence, critical infrastructure, cyber operations, deepfakes, democratic institutions, Disinformation, disruptive technologies, economic competitiveness, economic espionage, espionage, foreign intelligence entities, Generative AI, global power shift, gray zone, Great Power Competition, information domain, insider threat mitigation, intellectual property, National Security, predictive analysis, security competition, supply-chain vulnerabilities, surveillance, technological arms race, technological dominance, threat mitigation.

Redefining Espionage: The Unseen War for Technological Dominance

Joshua Thibert0 Comments

Published: March 24, 2026 The international system is undergoing a profound global power shift characterized by the resurgence of great power competition and a broad diffusion of technical capabilities. This…

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Why Ideology Matters in Irregular Warfare

Archive, Defense & Security, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAfghanistan, Al Qaeda, al-Shabaab, allies, anti-Western coalition, atrocities, authoritarianism, Beijing, Boko Haram, Caracas, Chavista regime, David Guenni, defense, Deterrence, domestic constituencies, ELN, extremists, FARC, Geopolitics, Global War on Terror, gray zone, Great Power Competition, Havana, Hezbollah, Ideology, Iraq, irregular warfare, irregular warfare doctrines, ISIS, Marxism, Missouri State University, Moscow, narcotrafficking, political asylum seeker, Pyongyang. , religion, revanchism, stability, strategic cultures, strategic-ideological struggle, Taliban, Tehran, territorial expansion, theory of victory, totalitarianism, U.S. foreign policy, unipolar moment, United States, USSOUTHCOM, Venezuela, whole-of-government efforts

Why Ideology Matters in Irregular Warfare

David Guenni0 Comments

Published: March 17, 2026 Ideology matters, as I learned from surviving 18 years under the Chavista regime in Venezuela. The United States pretended otherwise for three decades, clinging to the…

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Hacking the Apocalypse: How Cyberattacks Could Trigger Nuclear Escalation

AI & Deterrence, Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesartificial intelligence, attribution, command and control, critical infrastructure, critical vulnerabilities, cyber deterrence, Cyberattacks, Cyberspace, deconfliction mechanisms, democratic regimes, Deterrence, escalation, gray zone, irregular warfare, non-state actors, nuclear doctrine, nuclear escalation, nuclear threshold, offensive cyber capabilities, proportionality, second-strike capability, strategic cyberattacks, strategic stability, strategic threats, vital infrastructure

Hacking the Apocalypse: How Cyberattacks Could Trigger Nuclear Escalation

Gilles A. Paché0 Comments

Many of the world’s strategists still share the same conviction: as Kathryn Bigelow’s film A House of Dynamite (2025) dramatizes, nuclear escalation can only originate from a missile of unknown…

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