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Senior Leader Perspectives

Myanmar migrants hold up portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi as they take part in a demonstration outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok

Aug 26, 2021
LTC Miemie Winn Byrd, EdD, US Army (ret.)

Women on the Front Lines in Myanmar’s Fight for Democracy

Myanmar's junta chief Than Shwe salutes during the 63rd Armed Forces Day

Aug 26, 2021
Ambassador Scot Marciel

Myanmar Probably Needs a Military . . . Just Not the One It Has

Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Willsbach Article on China

Jun 8, 2021
Gen Kenneth S. Wilsbach, Commander, Pacific Air Forces

The Malign Influence of the People’s Republic of China in International Affairs

ARCTIC OCEAN � The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent ties up to the Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 5, 2009. The two ships are taking part in a multi-year, multi-agency Arctic survey that will help define the Arctic continental shelf.

Jun 8, 2021
Lt Gen David Krumm, USAF & Col Matthew Nicholson, USAF

The Arctic in an Age of Strategic Competition

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Features

Myanmar's junta leaders

Aug 26, 2021
Pawan Amin & Dr. Monish Tourangbam

Myanmar in the US Indo-Pacific Strategy: Why Is China Winning and What to Do about It?

drones over the Nagorno-Karabakh War

Aug 25, 2021
Ben Ho

The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Takeaways for Singapore’s Ground-Based Air Defense

WWII US aircraft in the Philippines

Aug 25, 2021
2d Lt Grant T. Willis, USAF & 2d Lt Brendan H. J. Donnelly, USAF

The Provisional Air Corps Regiment at Bataan, 1942: Lessons for Today’s Joint Force

India's acquisition of the S-400

Aug 25, 2021
Shaza Arif

India’s Acquisition of the S-400 Air Defense System: Implications and Options for Pakistan

Canadian and Afghan national army soldiers patrol in Badula Qulp, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 17, 2010, during Operation Helmand Spider. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez)

Aug 16, 2021
Anvesh Jain

Managerial Technicalism: The Evolving Nature of Canadian Decision Making in the Afghanistan War, 2001–2014

Graphic depiction of architecture associated with China, Russia, and India

Jun 8, 2021
Anvesh Jain

Comparing Civilization-State Models: China, Russia, India

China's insidious infiltration of academia

Jun 8, 2021
Lt Col Kathleen Hasson, USAF, GSS

The Chinese Communist Party’s Insidious Infiltration

People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia ships

Jun 8, 2021
CDR Stanley P. Fields, USCG

Maritime Great-Power Competition: Coast Guards in the Indo-Pacific

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Views

Protesters defend themselves with makeshift shields

Aug 26, 2021
Tom Connolly

Between Political Violence and COVID-19: Many Citizens in Myanmar Pushed to Armed Resistance

The national flags of the ASEAN countries

Aug 26, 2021
Charles Dunst

The Myanmar Coup as an ASEAN Inflection Point

Prodemocracy protests

Aug 26, 2021
Dr. Indu Saxena

Myanmar’s Military Coup: Security Trouble in Southeast Asia

Conflict concept of Australian and Chinese flag background

Aug 25, 2021
Dr. Indu Saxena , Dr. John Lash, Fabio van Loon, & Sanskruti Yagnik, with editor CDR Michael Tomsik, USN

The China–Australia Cold War: Unpacking National Security Concerns and Great-Power Competition

View of South Asia

Aug 25, 2021
Virain Mohan

Changing Political Dynamics in South Asia: The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Effects on Indian Regional Hegemony

US Air, Space, and Cyber Imperatives in the Indo-Pacific Gray Zone

Aug 25, 2021
Maj Joseph Tomczak, USAF; Maj Nicholas Torroll, USAF; & Maj Bedri Kaloshi, Albanian Air Force

Stewards of the Status Quo: US Air, Space, and Cyber Imperatives in the Indo-Pacific Gray Zone

al-Qaeda propaganda

Jun 8, 2021
Maj Ryan CK Hess, USAF

Al-Qaeda’s Keys to Success

Sino-South Korea relations

Jun 8, 2021
Anthony V. Rinna

China–South Korea Relations Amid the Sino-American Strategic Rivalry

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Commentaries

AUKUS joint communication

Sep 21, 2021
Dr. Douglas Peifer

French Anger over the AUKUS Trilateral Security Partnership Explained

Shields representing the Taliban, Pakistan, and China

Sep 8, 2021
Dr. Manoj Kumar Panigrahi & Arpan A. Chakravarty

Afghanistan, China, and Indo-Pacific: Significant Challenges in the Indo-Pacific

Afghan men wave a flag above the portrait of late Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud

Sep 3, 2021
Vasu Sharma

The Fall of Afghanistan: The Fault Lines and the Future

Afghanistan depicted as a maze.

Aug 31, 2021
Furqan Khan

The Afghan Conundrum: Taliban’s Takeover and the Way Forward

Taliban fighters stand on a vehicle along the roadside in Kandahar

Aug 27, 2021
Soumyodeep Deb

The Rise of Taliban and Its Security Implications

A close-up photograph of Afghanistan from a desktop globe.

Aug 26, 2021
Drake Long

Emerging Myths About the Afghanistan War

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political chief of Afghanistan's Taliban, in north China's Tianjin, July 28, 2021.

Aug 25, 2021
Dr. Chulanee Attanayake & Zheng Haiqi

Understanding China in Taliban-led Afghanistan

Leaving Afghanistan

Aug 25, 2021
Dr. Andrew Latham

Out of Afghanistan: A Realist View

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Book Reviews

Sep 14, 2021
Authored by Kyle M. Lascurettes; Reviewed by John Jethro L. Manangan

Book Review: Orders of Exclusion: Great Powers and the Strategic Sources of Foundational Rules in International Relations

Book cover depicting the author in uniform with Imperial Japanese flag in the background.

Sep 13, 2021
Authored by: Cary Owtram; Reviewed by: Fabrizio Martino:

Book Review: 1000 Days on the River Kwai

Book Cover: 2034

Aug 2, 2021
Authored by: Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis; Reviewed by: Caleb Nelson

Book Review: 2034: A Novel of the Next World War

The 19th Operations Group added the airlift mission in 2008; yet, the group performed its first airlift sortie during the early months of World War II. While pilots flew extreme-long-range bombing flights over the Philippines, they also airlifted supplies, including arms and ammunition, while evacuating ground personnel assigned to the 19th Bombardment Group from the Philippines. On March 16, 1942, three B-17 aircrews evacuated Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. Army Forces Far East, his family, and staff. Later that month aircrews evacuated Philippine President Manuel Quezon. The B-17 wasn’t designed to carry a large number of passengers or cargo; therefore, many people were left behind after the aircraft were filled to capacity. The Group personnel left behind fought as infantry in defense of Bataan; however, some were captured by the Japanese, and participated in the infamous Bataan Death March before living many long and brutal years as prisoners of war.

Jun 24, 2021
Author: James Kelly Morningstar; Reviewer: Richard Desjardins

Book Review: War and Resistance in the Philippines 1942–1944

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Cadet Perspectives

CCP intellectual property theft

Jun 8, 2021
MIDN Andew Song, NROTC

Economic Implications and Near-Term Strategic Impacts of Military-Civil Fusion for the Next China

Statue of Lady Justice

Dec 18, 2020
Cadet Jessica Williams, USAFA

Legitimizing and Operationalizing US Lawfare: The Successful Pursuit of Decisive Legal Combat in the South China Sea

A Chinese fighter lands on an aircraft carrier

Aug 31, 2020
Cadet Grant T. Willis

Avoiding Thucydides’ Trap in the Western Pacific through the Air Domain

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AIR COMMAND & STAFF COMMENTARIES

US and China conference flags

Aug 2, 2021
Maj Christy Jones, USAF

Selective Engagement: A Strategy to Address a Rising China

Flag of Communist China

Jun 17, 2021
Maj Matthew Small, USAF

The Challenge of a Rising China to US National Security

Chinese communists party cadres attend the opening ceremony of the 19th Party Congres

May 19, 2021
Dr. J. Wesley Hutto

Introduction: US Grand Strategy and the Rise of China

How the Chinese Communist Party steals science

May 19, 2021
Maj Jeremy DeLaCerda, USAF

United States Grand Strategy toward China

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Sci-fi as Strategy

Nov 24, 2020
Dr. J. Wesley Hutto
Space Entanglements: The India–Pakistan Rivalry and a US–China Security Dilemma

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