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  • Reconsidering Attacks on Mainland China

    Demonstrating resolve and maintaining deterrence will rely heavily on America’s nuclear posture and its leaders’ demonstrated willingness to attack the homelands of adversaries conventionally to rapidly halt acts of aggression.

  • Reimagining Afghanistan: Geostrategic Engagement with Major Powers

    The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan can be considered one of the most significant events of 2021 whose ramifications will be felt in the years to come. The retreat of the US military has left a power vacuum in Afghanistan, causing a shift in regional geopolitics. In this scenario,

  • Preparing for War with China, 2025–2032

    The US needs to prepare for potential war with China in the 2025–2032 timeframe. Some leaders may choose to ignore the signs of China’s designs for altering the world’s balance of power. However, that does not erase China’s aggressive behavior in the SCS and ECS over the past

  • Dragons Must Eat: China’s Food Insecurity and Strategic Vulnerability

    Although definitions of “food security” vary, most formulations of the term focus on the ability to reliably satisfy a population’s basic nutrition requirements despite friction and adverse circumstances with domestic production or imports. Historically, food security has been a

  • Editors’ Note

    Editors' Note: In volume 7, no. 5, the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs proudly presents a comprehensive special issue dedicated to Sri Lanka. This edition is a mosaic of perspectives, dissecting Sri Lanka’s strategic posture, economic ventures and misadventures, humanitarian

  • Foreword

    Dr. John M. Garver, Director, Homeland Defense Institute, provides the foreword for the July-August 2024 issue of the journal, which is guest edited by Dr. Richard Newton and Dr. Cameron Carlson as a collaboration among Air University Press, the Homeland Defense Institute at the US Air Force

  • Seize the Data Initiative

    Creating scalable, integrated networks with adaptive, resilient, and collaborative properties is the key to covering the gaps and seams of our decision loops and to deterring conflict by convincing our adversaries that achieving their objectives by force is not possible. This is the change that will

  • A Constructivist Approach to a Rising China

    The rise of China in the twenty-first century marks the end of unipolarity. The United States must meet the challenge of a resurgent China while maintaining its own status in the international system. It is in the United States’ best interest to pursue a strategy that avoids violence with

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