By APCSS Editor|2026-06-04T16:15:21-10:00June 4, 2026|Categories: Canyon, Security Nexus, news, Kolton|Tags: Philippines, australia, Indo-Pacific, Palau, Security Cooperation, alliances, access basing overflight, burden sharing, BRISC, defense spending|
A new Security Nexus Perspective by Deon Canyon and Michael Kolton, professors at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies introduces BRISC, a practitioner framework that moves beyond the two-percent GDP metric to assess Indo-Pacific burden sharing across access, intelligence, operational, and strategic contributions.
By APCSS Editor|2026-06-04T16:44:15-10:00June 4, 2026|Categories: Canyon, Security Nexus, news|Tags: China, Indo-Pacific, Cambodia, sovereignty, hedging states, access terrain, infrastructure financing, Vanuatu, Kiribati, basing rights|
A new Security Nexus Perspective by Dr. Deon Canyon examines how states cede strategic control by accepting infrastructure financing without access conditions, using Cambodia, Vanuatu, and Kiribati to show why shaping access terrain before construction is essential to preserving sovereignty.
By APCSS Editor|2026-06-03T15:10:59-10:00June 3, 2026|Categories: Minnich, news, Dialogue Podcast, Podcast|Tags: China, Security, Indo-Pacific, russia, Strategic Competition, Gray Zone, legitimacy, lawfare, legal warfare, international law|
Explore how lawfare—the strategic use of legal mechanisms—shapes modern security competition in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. In Episode 57 of Dialogue, Dr. Joanna Siekiera and Dr. James Minnich discuss law as a battlespace, the role of legal narratives, and how democracies can respond to evolving challenges of legitimacy and gray-zone competition.
By APCSS Editor|2026-05-29T15:40:34-10:00May 28, 2026|Categories: Courses, news|Tags: mars, Indo-Pacific, Deterrence, defense industrial base, Security Cooperation, innovation, defense policy, industrial resilience, defense industry, military industry, multinational partnerships, defense manufacturing, supply chain security, workforce development, international collaboration, defense seminar, allied cooperation, strategic partnerships|
The Multinational Armaments Resilience Seminar, or MARS, is an annual program designed to strengthen the resilience and integration of multinational defense industrial bases. Conducted over four non-consecutive week-long modules, MARS brings together government, military and industry professionals from across [...]
By APCSS Editor|2026-05-20T13:45:28-10:00May 20, 2026|Categories: Security Nexus, news|Tags: Japan, Security, Indo-Pacific, Alliance, supply chain, manufacturing, industrial deterrence, defense industry, Takaichi Doctrine, export reform|
Takashi Okamoto’s Security Nexus Perspective, "The Takaichi Doctrine," analyzes Japan’s transformation of its industrial base into a key tool for deterrence and security in the Indo-Pacific through export reform and alliance-driven production.
By APCSS Editor|2026-05-11T13:36:59-10:00May 11, 2026|Categories: Feller, Edge|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Strategic, Great Power Competition, AI, United States, artificial intelligence, warfare, industrial readiness, Power, technological|
The central ethical risk of military AI is not machine autonomy but human abdication: the tendency to treat algorithmic speed, confidence scores, and procedural validation as insulation from responsibility in war. Examining autonomy, remote warfare, cyber operations, and biotechnology, the chapter argues that preserving the warrior ethos in machine-age warfare requires leaders to retain the burden of command while building accountability, epistemic competence, and structural safeguards that keep responsibility inseparable from authority.
By APCSS Editor|2026-05-11T13:17:39-10:00May 11, 2026|Categories: Edge|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Strategic, Great Power Competition, AI, United States, preface, artificial intelligence, warfare, industrial readiness, Power, technological|
The Indo-Pacific security architecture is undergoing its most significant transformation since the end of the Second World War. As the United States and its partners navigate this era of competitive multipolarity, the requirement for rigorous strategic assessment of military and national power has never been greater. America’s Strategic Edge: Deterrence, Lethality, and Warrior Ethos in the Indo-Pacific seeks to provide that assessment by examining the interconnected pillars that sustain America’s strategic edge and regional stability.
By APCSS Editor|2026-05-11T13:14:59-10:00May 11, 2026|Categories: Edge|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Strategic, Great Power Competition, AI, United States, artificial intelligence, warfare, industrial readiness, Power, technological|
The Indo-Pacific is the gravitational center of global security in the twenty-first century. Home to the world’s most dynamic economies and vital sea lanes, it is also a landscape defined by rapid military modernization, contested domains, and intensifying competition. Preserving peace depends not only on credible military advantage, but on disciplined leadership and ironclad partnerships that uphold regional stability.
By APCSS Editor|2026-05-12T10:17:30-10:00May 11, 2026|Categories: Feller, Edge|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Strategic, Great Power Competition, AI, United States, artificial intelligence, warfare, industrial readiness, Power, technological|
The central ethical risk of military AI is not machine autonomy but human abdication: the tendency to treat algorithmic speed, confidence scores, and procedural validation as insulation from responsibility in war. Examining autonomy, remote warfare, cyber operations, and biotechnology, the chapter argues that preserving the warrior ethos in machine-age warfare requires leaders to retain the burden of command while building accountability, epistemic competence, and structural safeguards that keep responsibility inseparable from authority.
By APCSS Editor|2026-05-11T12:33:36-10:00May 11, 2026|Categories: Kunce, Edge|Tags: Indo-Pacific, Strategic, Great Power Competition, Deterrence, United States, warfare, industrial readiness, Power, technological|
Resilience in the twenty-first century depends less on raw technological superiority than on a nation’s ability to organize power coherently, legitimately, and at speed across government, the military, industry, and society under sustained pressure. Through a comparative analysis of democratic resilience and China’s military-civil fusion model, the chapter argues that the United States must strengthen whole-of-society coordination and public-private integration to preserve legitimacy, maintain escalation control, and sustain strategic advantage during prolonged competition.
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