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Digital Infrastructure in 2025 - Black Hole or Big Bang?
Honorable John C. (Chris) Inglis
Mr. Inglis describes the current state of digital infrastructure in a world increasingly dependent on it. He covers global trends in policy, technology, and threats impacting organizations dependent on geographically dispersed digital infrastructure as well as recommendations for navigating them to ensure the achievement of organizational outcomes.
Nuclear Posture and Nuclear Proliferation: Experimental Evidence from South Korea
Dr. Ariel Petrovics
While South Korea remains a non-nuclear U.S. ally under the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, domestic support for developing its own independent nuclear weapons is high and growing.
The New Pacing Threats: Opportunistic and Coordinated Aggression
Matthew R. Costlow
Adversary cooperation and opportunism is growing to such an extent between China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran that it is no longer sufficient label China “the pacing threat.”
Assessing China’s Strategic Relationships: A Conceptual Overview
Dr. Phillip C. Saunders
Divergent assessments about the nature of China’s strategic relationships and how much military and security cooperation a given relationship will support are largely due to conceptual confusion about how to think about alliances and strategic alignment.
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