May 24, 2011
Explore how Taiwan’s Anti-Fraud Initiative offers valuable lessons for competing in the cognitive domain, leveraging AI tools, public-private collaboration, and legislative trust to counter cyberfraud and cognitive warfare.
Discover the five critical questions commanders must ask their Public Affairs Officers to integrate Public Affairs as a decisive maneuver element in the modern information environment and support strategic competition.
DKI APCSS hosts a successful alumni workshop in the Philippines on strategic scenarios, strengthening partnerships and discussing Indo-Pacific security with key officials.
DKI APCSS conducted key leader engagements in New Delhi, India, strengthening U.S.-India partnerships through alumni mentoring, regional security dialogue, and defense cooperation.
DKI APCSS recently conducted key leader engagements in Kathmandu, Nepal, highlighting the nation’s strategic role in regional stability. DKI APCSS Director Suzanne Vares-Lum joined Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, to meet with senior Nepali leaders and U.S. Embassy partners. Discussions focused on shared security priorities, including disaster preparedness, humanitarian assistance, and Nepal’s contributions to peacekeeping operations. The visit also celebrated the impactful work of DKI APCSS alumni, showcasing the program’s role in fostering education, connection, and empowerment across the Indo-Pacific region.
DKI APCSS hosted IPOC 26-1, its first Indo-Pacific Orientation Course of the year, featuring 144 Fellows from eight countries. This program included the Center’s inaugural Emergency Management cohort, fostering collaboration between military, civilian, and government stakeholders to strengthen homeland defense and critical incident response.
A new Security Nexus Perspective, “Framework for Understanding Cognitive Security as Strategic Terrain,”by Dr. Deon K. Canyon, associate dean of academics and professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, provides an in-depth look at how adversaries weaponize perception, trust, and decision-making to shape strategic outcomes in modern conflict. The article highlights the growing importance of cognitive security in the Indo-Pacific region, where artificial intelligence, synthetic media, and information operations are increasingly used to influence alliances and complicate crisis response. Explore this timely and thought-provoking analysis to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities in navigating contested cognitive terrain.
DKI APCSS concludes its inaugural Multinational Armaments Resilience Seminar, strengthening Indo-Pacific defense industrial base resilience through multinational collaboration and partnerships.
David R. Stilwell served as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2019 to 2021. Prior to that, he served in the Air Force for 35 years, beginning as an enlisted Korean linguist in 1980, and retiring in 2015 in the rank of Brigadier General as the Asia advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He served multiple tours of duty in Japan and Korea as a linguist, a fighter pilot, and a commander. He also served as the Defense Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 2011-2013. He earned a B.S. in History from the U.S. Air Force Academy (1987), a Master’s Degree in Asian Studies and Chinese language from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1988) as an East-West Center participant.
Ambassador John T. Hennessey-Niland is the former U.S. ambassador to Palau. With a 35-year career in the Foreign Service, he is one of the most experienced "Pacific hands" to serve in the Department of State. He has held multiple posts in the Indo-Pacific, including Fiji, Australia, and Hawaii, where he served as the foreign policy advisor (POLAD) to the commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific. His other assignments include serving on the National Security Council as a director responsible for international summits, as a United Nations war crimes investigator in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and at several embassies in Europe, including Paris (twice), Dublin, and The Hague.
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