Origins, Progress, and Unfinished Business: NATO’s Protection of Civilians Policy
…late 2015 PoC mapping exercise included a request for NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate to support the effort and the drafting of a PoC policy….
Current Defense Plans Require Unsustainable Future Spending
…Defense News, April 15, 2024, https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/04/15/f-35s-to-cost-2-trillion-as-pentagon-plans-longer-use-says-watchdog/. Future costs of current plans for conventional forces are significant, but those costs escalate even further when nuclear weapons are also considered. Adjusting for…
What Can UN Peacekeeping Learn from Ukraine’s Drones?
…will increasingly come from the lower altitudes of the air domain. In Ukraine, fighters have modified commercial drones into bombers, which drop grenades and other small explosives on Russian soldiers….
Top Ten Global Risks for 2024
…distress or the risk of it. The continent’s public debt has tripled since 2010 to $645 billion, with annual servicing of the debt amounting to about 25% of Africa’s GDP….
Securing the Future: Building the US Nuclear Security Workforce Pipeline
…projects; Educating and recruiting for the security workforce of the future by focusing on broad educational backgrounds, developing and seeking interdisciplinary expertise, and recruiting for a learning mindset; Leveraging non-traditional…
Tutorial: How to use the Mekong Deforestation App
…Google, USGS, and NASA- and has been cleaned and processed for the Mekong Deforestation App. Through this tool, the Stimson Center hopes to widen accessibility to GIS research methods and…
TRANSCRIPT – Inside High-Stakes Negotiations: A Conversation with Hostage Negotiator Mickey Bergman on Freeing Captured Americans Abroad
…anything with it,’ and once they googled him they figured out that he used to work as an editor in a publication that was absolutely legal before the coup, but…
U.S.-China Trade Conflict: Opportunities for U.S. Economic and Security Interests in Developing Southeast Asia
…to diversify supply sources have hit the headlines, such as those by Apple and Google, the sheer size and technology level of the Chinese industrial base alone makes relocation of…