Lapse In Appropriations
The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sept. 30, 2025. Military personnel will continue in a normal duty status, without pay, until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Congress and signed into law. Civilian personnel not engaged in excepted activities will be placed in a non-work, non-pay status.By APCSS Editor|2025-09-30T08:25:22-10:00September 22, 2025|Categories: Courses, news|Tags: Fellow, China, Security, Cooperation, CSC, Deterrence, Allies And Partners, Influence|
As the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies marks its 30th anniversary, 113 Fellows from 37 locations around the globe graduated today from the Center’s Comprehensive Security Cooperation course (CSC 25-3), completing five weeks of study focused on building trust and strengthening security ties in the Indo-Pacific.
By APCSS Editor|2025-09-09T12:56:02-10:00September 9, 2025|Categories: Tekwani, Security Nexus, news|Tags: China, russia, India, Security Nexus, Foreign Policy, United States, multipolarity, strategic autonomy, dependency, defense alignment|
India’s bid to remain equidistant between Russia, China, and the U.S. is no longer sustainable. This Security Nexus article explores how strategic autonomy risks becoming constraint.
By APCSS Editor|2025-09-11T10:00:33-10:00August 29, 2025|Categories: Canyon, Security Nexus, news|Tags: China, Indo-Pacific, Strategic Competition, National Security, Deterrence, industrial base, co-production, Adaptive Power, U.S. defense, military readiness|
Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Associate Dean of Academics Dr. Deon Canyon has authored a new article in Security Nexus titled “Adaptive Power Helps the U.S. Defense Industrial Base Become a Tool of Deterrence.” His paper argues that as strategic competition with China intensifies, the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) must shift from a reactive supplier to a proactive tool of deterrence and influence. Using the Adaptive Power framework, the article reimagines the DIB as a sovereignty-aligned asset that supports U.S. strategic objectives through five operational pillars: timing, context, legitimacy, modularity, and learning.
By APCSS Editor|2025-09-02T15:45:04-10:00August 27, 2025|Categories: Wieninger, Edge|Tags: China, Nuclear, Tensions|
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 6 Bill Wieninger Rational leaders took us to the brink of nuclear annihilation; that peril still exists today. — Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary, 1961–1968 Interview in The Fog of [...]
By APCSS Editor|2025-08-27T13:00:31-10:00August 27, 2025|Categories: Edge|Tags: China, Reusable Rocket, Surge|
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 4 Elliot Joseph Fox Whoever controls space controls the world. — Lyndon B. Johnson Introduction On December 21, 2015, a soot-streaked Falcon 9 first stage descended in controlled triumph onto [...]
By APCSS Editor|2025-08-27T12:35:58-10:00August 27, 2025|Categories: Edge|Tags: China, CCP, Chinese Communist Party|
Edge of Competition Main Page Chapter 3 Ryan C. Agee The rise of a great power often brings about its own set of challenges, which can lead to its decline. — Orville Schell and John Delury, [...]
By APCSS Editor|2025-09-19T15:11:25-10:00August 20, 2025|Categories: news, Dialogue Podcast, Podcast|Tags: Victor Cha, munitions, arms trade, strategic entrapment, missile program, sanctions, defense treaty, DPRK, Korean security, China, Ukraine war, U.S. foreign policy, nuclear weapons, Pyongyang, Geopolitics, russia, Indo-Pacific, North Korea|
In Dialogue Episode 51, Dr. Victor Cha—one of the world’s foremost experts on Korean security and geopolitics—explains the stakes and the limited choices before Washington and its allies. As he observes, “It really shows that North Korea is not content to sit on its hands. They’re being very proactive about taking advantage of strategic situations where they see an opening.”
By APCSS Editor|2025-09-19T15:11:53-10:00August 4, 2025|Categories: news, Dialogue Podcast, Podcast|Tags: China, India, Indian Ocean, Maldives, big-power dynamics|
In the contested waters of the Indian Ocean, the Maldives is proving that size does not dictate influence. With just over half a million people and limited hard power, the island nation is not merely weathering great-power competition—it is actively shaping it. In Dialogue Episode 49, Dr. Andrea Malji, an expert on South Asia and Indian Ocean geopolitics, explains how geography, governance, and diplomatic agility form the core of Malé’s strategic playbook.
By APCSS Editor|2025-09-19T15:12:49-10:00July 27, 2025|Categories: news, Dialogue Podcast, Podcast|Tags: China, Indo-Pacific Security|
North Korea is no longer merely surviving—it is strategically maneuvering. Against the backdrop of a fraying global order and eroding sanctions enforcement, Pyongyang has deepened wartime collaboration with Russia while leaning on China to sustain its economic core. What may appear as opportunistic bandwagoning is, in fact, a calibrated strategy—one that seeks regime durability, economic windfalls, and enhanced geopolitical relevance.
By APCSS Editor|2025-07-11T12:41:57-10:00July 11, 2025|Categories: Workshops/Events, news|Tags: China, Security, Strategic Competition, defense industrial base, economic coercion, hybrid warfare, cyber threats, emerging leaders, international cooperation, Ottawa, young leaders|
OTTAWA, Canada — The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian Department of National Defence, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, hosted a workshop on China’s hybrid warfare strategies July 7–11. Held in Ottawa, the five-day event convened emerging leaders from the Indo-Pacific, the Americas, and Europe to explore economic coercion, cyber threats and strategic risks to the defense industrial base. Participants engaged in scenario planning, strategic analysis and peer-to-peer exchanges to better understand the multilayered and multidomain tactics employed by China.
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