By APCSS Editor|2026-03-24T11:06:57-10:00March 24, 2026|
Critical minerals processing remains concentrated in few hands across the Indo-Pacific, mirroring historical patterns from Europe's potato dependency to twentieth-century oil geopolitics. The question is whether dependencies formed through efficiency are recognized before disruption forces awareness. ---------------------------------------------- Strategic vulnerabilities [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-03-12T13:14:07-10:00March 12, 2026|
Summary A foreign minister signing an access, basing, and overflight (ABO) agreement without a clear account of what sovereignty he is trading is making a decision he cannot fully evaluate. Sovereignty in the ABO context operates across four distinct [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-03-09T16:16:28-10:00March 9, 2026|
Port Louis | 28 February 2026: Mauritius suspended diplomatic relations with the Maldives after Malé rejected Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago and objected to the UK–Mauritius transfer agreement. A dispute long expanding beneath the surface has now broken [...]
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|2026-05-01T11:09:46-10:00February 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 [...]
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