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IPOC 26-1 – Defending the Homeland Begins at Home
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.
Security Nexus Perspective: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Security as Strategic Terrain
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.
Join us for Dialogue | Episode 54 – Civil War: Myanmar, Five Years On with Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd
Five years after the coup, Myanmar’s civil war has become a persistent source of regional instability. Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd assesses how the battlefield and political dynamics have evolved, what outcomes are now plausible, and what the conflict means for Indo-Pacific security.
Forging the Future of Indo-Pacific Defense: The Inaugural Multinational Armaments Resilience Seminar (MARS)
DKI APCSS concludes its inaugural Multinational Armaments Resilience Seminar, strengthening Indo-Pacific defense industrial base resilience through multinational collaboration and partnerships.
Dialogue | Episode 53: Strategy in the Storm – Disaster Response as a Test of Indo-Pacific Partnerships
Joe Martin, Director of CFE-DM, explains why disaster response is a strategic stress test of Indo-Pacific partnerships. In this Dialogue Episode 53 discussion, Martin reveals how real resilience is built through practiced coordination, trusted relationships, and localized leadership, not improvised when the storm hits.
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