Great Power Decision-Making

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  • By J7 AY26 Research Challenge

The world 's great (and near-great) powers are experiencing different economic, demographic, technological, and military trends. The interaction of these trends will drive changes in the global power balance in the future strategic environment. If current trends persist, will the United States's power vis-a-vis Russia and China be more positive or negative? How will increasing use of AI-enabled decision-making structures change the strategic and operational levels of war? Do Russian and Chinese leadership use game theory to make decisions, and, if so, how can we introduce higher variance in decisions to take advantage of that methodology? What activities at the micro and macro level are most effective in impacting Chinese and Russian decision-making and behavior?