By APCSS Editor|2025-12-17T08:56:21-10:00December 17, 2025|Categories: Workshops/Events, news|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Strategic Competition, DKI APCSS, 30th anniversary, alumni workshop, commemorative dinner, security collaboration, maritime domain awareness, crisis response, multilateral partnerships|
Gathering regional leaders, alumni, foundation members and distinguished guests, DKI APCSS celebrated its 30th Anniversary Alumni Workshop on Sept. 17, 2025, with a commemorative dinner honoring three decades of collaboration across the Indo-Pacific.
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-12T16:01:58-10:00December 15, 2025|Categories: Security Nexus, news, Moyer|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Security Cooperation, critical thinking, Large language models, artificial intelligence, human-AI partnership, technology adoption, sovereignty concerns, U.S.-China competition, decision-making|
A new Security Nexus Perspective by Dr. Elizabeth Vaughan Moyer examines the strategic application of large language models in Indo-Pacific security operations while addressing technology competition and sovereignty concerns. Moyer, a DKI APCSS fellow and major in the U.S. Air Force, tackles the urgent challenge facing security professionals: leveraging artificial intelligence for enhanced decision-making without compromising critical thinking or accountability. The analysis emphasizes a key argument: organizations that embrace experimentation with imperfect technology will gain significant advantages over those waiting for ideal solutions.
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-12T15:11:13-10:00December 12, 2025|Categories: Security Nexus, news, Malji|Tags: Infrastructure, Indo-Pacific, Geopolitical competition, sovereignty, Small States, strategic alignment, Belt and Road Initiative, diplomatic recognition, regional influence, global power|
A new Security Nexus Perspective by Dr. Andrea Malji, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, examines the strategic role of small states in the Indo-Pacific and their growing influence in global geopolitics. Malji highlights how nations such as Kiribati, the Solomon Islands, Maldives, and Dominica, despite their small populations, occupy critical positions in the contest for global influence. Their decisions on diplomatic recognition, infrastructure partnerships, and alignment with major powers carry significant weight in shaping the regional balance of power. The analysis underscores a key argument: geopolitical competition in the Indo-Pacific is not limited to major capitals but is equally shaped by the choices of small states navigating external pressures and domestic challenges.
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-12T11:47:22-10:00December 12, 2025|Categories: Security Nexus, news, Malji|Tags: Indo-Pacific, regional stability, supply chains, critical minerals, rare earth elements, geopolitical leverage, mineral security, China dominance, refining capacity, maritime chokepoints|
Andrea Malji, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, examines the strategic role of critical minerals in the Indo-Pacific and their use as tools of geopolitical leverage. Malji highlights how rare earth elements and their derivatives are essential for advanced technologies, with the Indo-Pacific serving as the hub for processing and transport. China’s dominance in refining capacity and control over key maritime chokepoints has enabled it to use mineral policy as a form of statecraft, influencing global supply chains and state behavior.
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-17T08:50:09-10:00September 26, 2025|Categories: Workshops/Events, news|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Strategic Competition, DKI APCSS, 30th anniversary, alumni workshop, commemorative dinner, security collaboration, crisis response, multilateral partnerships|
Staying connected to alumni is a key line of effort at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. The Center hosted 47 alumni from 22 locations worldwide for a four-day 30th Anniversary Alumni Workshop, held Sept. 16–19, 2025, to strengthen professional networks and explore future security challenges.
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-09T13:03:16-10:00September 8, 2025|Categories: Lumbaca, Security Nexus, news|Tags: proxy warfare, state-sponsored terrorism, regional intelligence sharing, Middle East influence, Iran-Israel conflict, Iranian influence, Southeast Asia terrorism, Iranian proxies, missile shipments, terrorism, Israeli embassy attacks, IRGC, Hezbollah, insurgency, Iran, USINDOPACOM, regional security, Indo-Pacific|
Dr. Lumpy Lumbaca, a counterterrorism expert and faculty member at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, explores how Iran has quietly extended its terrorism and insurgency campaigns into the Indo-Pacific in a new Security Nexus article, Iran’s Terrorism and Insurgency in the Indo-Pacific: Implications for the U.S. and Its Partners. Despite its limited recognition as a regional threat, Iran has used proxy networks and covert operations to target Israeli interests across the region for decades. From attempted embassy bombings and airline plots to the use of forged passports and illicit arms shipments, the article details how these actions support Iran’s broader strategy of asymmetric warfare aimed at destabilizing its adversaries.
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-09T13:03:28-10:00September 2, 2025|Categories: news, Dialogue Podcast, Podcast|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Deterrence, regional security, ROK-U.S. alliance, OPCON transfer, Combined Forces Command, UNC, South Korea military, alliance modernization, nuclear debate|
Dr. Clint Work joins Dialogue Episode 50 to examine the future of the ROK-U.S. alliance, focusing on OPCON transfer, deterrence, and Seoul's role in regional security.
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-09T13:03:38-10:00August 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|2025-12-09T13:04:12-10:00August 27, 2025|Categories: Edge|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Advantage|
Edge of Competition Main Page Afterword The Edge of Advantage James M. Minnich The Indo-Pacific is not on the verge of change—it is already in the throes of it. Edge of Competition is a guide for navigating this [...]
By APCSS Editor|2025-12-09T13:03:36-10:00August 27, 2025|Categories: Edge|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Strategic|
Edge of Competition Main Page The Indo-Pacific has entered an era of intensified complexity. Strategic tremors now travel faster. Fault lines run deeper. The contest for advantage now spans every domain, from seabed cables that bind our [...]
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