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Anitha Quintin: The “Harmonious Japan Paradigm” and Japanese Historical Revisionism

The denialism of Japan’s war crimes by high-ranking Japanese authorities has been a strong point of contention over the past

Stick & Rudder #4. A Basic US Strategy Toward Russia: more than Deter & Defend

If strategy means anything, it should have definition and purpose. US strategy toward the current Russia regime, and just about

Teaching & Learning #4. Navigating the Pandemic from a Virtual Classroom in Wisconsin

On March 11th, nearly 70,000 students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin were met with the news that

Note #16. Transparency Attack: Launch of the Mekong Infrastructure Tracker

The Mekong Infrastructure Tracker launched today, providing a public platform that creates transparency on nearly 4000 ongoing or planned infrastructure

Paper #25. Supply Chain Competition & Warfare I: Fundamentals of Advantage

Supply chains are vital to socio-economic well-being and military success. They have become arenas where authoritarians wage complex warfare while

Paper #24. Distorting the Loop: How Russia’s Narratives Reorient OODA Decisions & What to Do About It

As a follow-on to China’s strategy, we show how Russia’s use of narrative reorients decisions in an Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) Loop.

Paper #23. Collapsing the Loop: How China’s Narrative Subverts OODA Decision-making & What to Do About It

Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop—Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act— is a powerful model for making decisions in contested environments. Strategic

Paper #22. War: What is it Good for?

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic

Note #15. Tracking Chinese and Russian DisInformation: Hamilton 2.0 Reloaded

This Note paraphrases today's webinar from the Alliance for Security Democracy on Hamilton 2.0, a dashboard on Russian, and now

Stick & Rudder #3. An All-Effects Strategy Against COVID-19: Secure & Induce, Persuade & Dissuade, Defend & Deter

COVID-19 is an advanced threat against humanity, requiring a broad-based combination of effects to defeat. In a language of combined

Note #14. Machine-learning a Video: “The Corona Virus and the Impact on the Global Supply Chain”

This Note uses critical thinking to analyze complex linkages in a YouTube video from the MIT Center for Transportation and

Paper #21. Informatizing Operations: The Other Half of All-Domain Warfare

Warfare has become all-domain, all-effects, and all-information. This reality is thriving in a comfort zone outside our entrenched concept of

Teaching & Learning #3. Visual Analytics & Case Method Applied to COVID-19

In an age of artificial intelligence and quantum computing, governments and businesses become more dependent on machine learning. Human learning

Paper #20. Competing with Analog Weapons in a Digital Arena? How to Gain Advantage

Let's explore how to gain advantages by comparing analog and digital characteristics of the Information Environment (IE). First, we consider

Paper #19. From Jargon to Jointness: Understanding the Information Environment and its Terminology

The Department of Defense (DoD) spends much time and effort trying to make sense of the Information Environment (IE). This