By APCSS Editor|2026-03-03T17:05:38-10:00March 3, 2026|
Executive Summary The Indo-Pacific is not approaching a cognitive war. It is already inside one. China’s systematic cognitive operations, grounded in People’s Liberation Army political warfare doctrine and operationally integrated with economic and diplomatic coercion, are actively targeting the [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-02-26T16:38:43-10:00February 26, 2026|
Executive Summary Strategic miscalculation, rather than deliberate escalation, is increasingly recognized as the dominant risk in contemporary security competition. Gray-zone coercion, administrative normalization, ambiguous signaling, and delayed consequence create environments in which capable organizations may act coherently, adapt repeatedly, [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-02-26T16:39:13-10:00February 26, 2026|
In his 2025 testimony to the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Admiral Samuel Paparo, described China’s pressure campaign against Taiwan as “a multi-faceted approach combining military pressure, cognitive and cyber operations, and economic coercion.”[1] The U.S. Department of [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-02-26T15:37:55-10:00February 26, 2026|
By Lt. Col. Tamara Fischer, Public Affairs DKI APCSS, USAF Abstract Integrated deterrence depends on the narrative believed by competitors, partners, and the public, placing Public Affairs (PA) at the center of the information environment. Despite investments in cyber [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-02-18T16:55:00-10:00February 18, 2026|
The Battlefield Your partner government appears solid until a crisis reveals that six months of narrative conditioning has eroded domestic support for regional action. Your crisis response timeline assumes shared situational awareness, but deepfake videos create divergent operational pictures [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-01-26T13:07:42-10:00January 26, 2026|
India’s quiet withdrawal from Iran after 2019 was not a diplomatic rupture but an adjustment to constraint. As Iran convulses under sanctions, protest, and regional loss, the distance India sought to create is collapsing. The consequences surface not in [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-01-07T11:45:32-10:00January 7, 2026|
Since 2014, India has articulated its regional strategy through the framework of Neighborhood First, a policy premised on the idea that proximity, interdependence, and sustained engagement would anchor stability across South Asia. The intent has been clear: to reduce [...]
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-18T15:10:01-10:00December 18, 2025|
Three incidents in one week: a detained traveler in Shanghai, a revived claim on Sindh, and a currency note from Kathmandu, reveal a South Asia where small symbols now carry the weight of territorial claims. The danger lies not [...]
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-15T14:43:17-10:00December 12, 2025|
In an era of intensifying regional and great power rivalry, the world's smallest states have found themselves occupying some of the most strategic spaces on the global chessboard. From the atolls of the Pacific to Caribbean microstates, countries with [...]
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-12T14:07:45-10:00December 12, 2025|
DKI APCSS Fellow, Major, United States Air Force Abstract Security professionals across the Indo-Pacific face an urgent challenge: leveraging large language models (LLMs) for enhanced decision-making while navigating United States-China technology competition, language barriers, and sovereignty concerns. Research demonstrates [...]
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