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  • 9th Aviation Brigade Likely Validates Manned-Unmanned Teaming Combat Methods

    The People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has likely made significant progress in developing effective manned-unmanned teaming (MUMT) concepts and employment tactics. As early as 2024, combat units began participating in the combat method validation process for MUMT. A maintainer affiliated

  • China's SEAD Tactics & Doctrine

    Modern air warfare has demonstrated air superiority can no longer be assumed, even by technologically advanced militaries. The proliferation of mobile, networked, and resilient air defense systems has engendered a crucial shift. Once characterized by rapid dominance, aerial campaigns now manifest as

  • CASI's "SHOCK WAVE" - a Useful Fiction about the future of hypersonics

    Useful Fiction, is an analytical tool that deliberately blends rigorous nonfiction research with engaging storytelling. It bridges the gap between academic reports and creative narrative to help organizations visualize, plan for, and prepare for the future. Useful Fiction is designed to allow the

  • TFTC: The Next Battlefield is Within  

    Thoughts from the ChairmanThe Next Battlefield is Within     For centuries, nations measured power through armies, fleets, and factories. Those things remain important, but the next great competition among nations will be fought at a different level. The nations that can understand life itself,

  • Tiananmen Square: The Declassified History - w/ postscript 2026

    The Chinese army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests killed thousands of people, up to 10,000 according to released declassified UK documents. The figure was given in a secret diplomatic cable from then British ambassador to China, Sir Alan Donald written on 5 June 1989.  The cable is in

  • CASI Conference 2026

    2026 CASI ConferenceThursday 21 May 2026 at National Defense UniversityCASI's biennial CASI Conference Thursday 21 May 2026  National Defense University in the Lincoln Hall auditorium.                                                                                        AGENDA  07:15  

  • ITOW: Legal Warfare

    Translations from Chinese source documentsThe “In Their Own Words” series is dedicated to translations of Chinese documents in order to help non-Mandarin speaking audiences access and understand Chinese thinking. In the “In Their Own Words” series, CASI and its collaborators aim to provide Chinese

  • TFTC: Cultivating the Next Generation

    Thoughts from the ChairmanCultivating the Next Generation             中国, China, literally “The Middle Kingdom”, that is where we belong, in the middle, and that is where we shall return.  By the one hundred year anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party shall lead

  • ITOW: Science of Second Artillery Campaigns

    Translations from Chinese source documentsThe “In Their Own Words” series is dedicated to translations of Chinese documents in order to help non-Mandarin speaking audiences access and understand Chinese thinking. In the “In Their Own Words” series, CASI and its collaborators aim to provide Chinese

  • TFTC: The Chinese Dream

    Thoughts from the ChairmanThe Chinese Dream The Chinese Dream is a vision shared by Chinese people worldwide, a dream that embodies a collective hope and determination for the future of the nation. Unlike the American Dream, which centers on individual achievement, where people think they can work

  • Dancers at the Knife's Edge: PLA Rocket Force Nuclear Warhead Management

        The PLA Rocket Force (PLARF), until 2016 known as the PLA Second Artillery Force (PLASAF), is the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) ground-based strategic missile service. It is equipped with a wide range of nuclear and conventional missiles, including short, medium, intermediate, and

  • PLA Reorganizes Space Information Support and Assurance Mission

    The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) restructuring of its space information support and assurance forces further deepens its reliance on space for communications, navigation, and reconnaissance.The PLA is transitioning most—but not yet all—of the battlefield space information

  • China's Response to Operation Midnight Hammer: Caution or Paralysis?

    On 22 June 2025, the U.S. military carried out Operation Midnight Hammer, conducting night strikes on Iran’s three main nuclear facilities with submarine-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles and B-2 bombers carrying GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP), or “bunker-buster,” bombs.  The operation,

  • ITOW: How Will the Form of Air Warfare Change in the Future?

    Translations from Chinese source documentsThe “In Their Own Words” series is dedicated to translations of Chinese documents in order to help non-Mandarin speaking audiences access and understand Chinese thinking. In the “In Their Own Words” series, CASI and its collaborators aim to provide Chinese

  • TFTC: Xi is a Patriot

    Xi Jinping is a Patriot. He is working to make China a leading world power, and more importantly he's working for the Chinese people. He wants the lives of the Chinese people to be better.  He wants to raise the standard of living across China.  He wants to continue the successes of the Chinese