May 24, 2011
Dr. Sungmin Cho has a new paper published by the Pacific Forum entitled "The New US Diplomacy with China: ‘Keep Your Promises’ " In his article, Cho discusses the idea of creating political division within China and its potential [...]
Dr. Namrata Goswami is an author and educator specializing in international relations and space policy whose work focuses on great-power competition, strategic culture, grand strategy, and ethnic identity. She currently serves as Professor of Space Security with the United States Space Force (USSF) Schriever and West Space Scholars Program at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches courses on spacepower development, strategy, policy, and space as a warfighting domain. She has also held a professorship at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, and served as a guest lecturer at Emory University.
Takashi Okamoto’s Security Nexus Perspective, "The Takaichi Doctrine," analyzes Japan’s transformation of its industrial base into a key tool for deterrence and security in the Indo-Pacific through export reform and alliance-driven production.
Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA brought together former chiefs of staff of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and former commanders of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command for the inaugural Japan-U.S. Security Discussion (JUSSD), a high-level dialogue focused on the present status and future growth of the U.S.-Japan alliance. This important convening was co-hosted with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in Honolulu, HI.
The central ethical risk of military AI is not machine autonomy but human abdication: the tendency to treat algorithmic speed, confidence scores, and procedural validation as insulation from responsibility in war. Examining autonomy, remote warfare, cyber operations, and biotechnology, the chapter argues that preserving the warrior ethos in machine-age warfare requires leaders to retain the burden of command while building accountability, epistemic competence, and structural safeguards that keep responsibility inseparable from authority.
The Indo-Pacific security architecture is undergoing its most significant transformation since the end of the Second World War. As the United States and its partners navigate this era of competitive multipolarity, the requirement for rigorous strategic assessment of military and national power has never been greater. America’s Strategic Edge: Deterrence, Lethality, and Warrior Ethos in the Indo-Pacific seeks to provide that assessment by examining the interconnected pillars that sustain America’s strategic edge and regional stability.
The Indo-Pacific is the gravitational center of global security in the twenty-first century. Home to the world’s most dynamic economies and vital sea lanes, it is also a landscape defined by rapid military modernization, contested domains, and intensifying competition. Preserving peace depends not only on credible military advantage, but on disciplined leadership and ironclad partnerships that uphold regional stability.
The central ethical risk of military AI is not machine autonomy but human abdication: the tendency to treat algorithmic speed, confidence scores, and procedural validation as insulation from responsibility in war. Examining autonomy, remote warfare, cyber operations, and biotechnology, the chapter argues that preserving the warrior ethos in machine-age warfare requires leaders to retain the burden of command while building accountability, epistemic competence, and structural safeguards that keep responsibility inseparable from authority.
Resilience in the twenty-first century depends less on raw technological superiority than on a nation’s ability to organize power coherently, legitimately, and at speed across government, the military, industry, and society under sustained pressure. Through a comparative analysis of democratic resilience and China’s military-civil fusion model, the chapter argues that the United States must strengthen whole-of-society coordination and public-private integration to preserve legitimacy, maintain escalation control, and sustain strategic advantage during prolonged competition.
In an era of hybrid warfare and machine-speed decision cycles, the decisive advantage lies not only in technology or lethality, but in the cognitive, moral, and psychological endurance of the force. The chapter argues that resilience, post-traumatic growth, and fortitude are essential components of the warrior ethos, sustaining the ethical clarity, disciplined judgment, and purposeful persistence necessary for deterrence, readiness, and long-term strategic legitimacy.
Warrior traditions across the Indo-Pacific remain living sources of cohesion, professionalism, and operational effectiveness, shaping how militaries train, lead, and cooperate in coalition environments. By examining martial legacies from Oceania to Northeast and Southeast Asia—and linking them to the American tradition of disciplined initiative and decentralized command—the chapter demonstrates how shared warrior values strengthen interoperability, trust, and coalition resilience in an era of distributed operations and strategic competition.
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