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Apr 28, 2025

What Are the Potential Impacts of Seabed Mining?

The authors discuss China's domination of the critical mineral supply chain, the potential benefits and economic viability of seabed mining for critical minerals, and the need for the United States to incorporate seabed mining into its planning.

Tom LaTourrette, Fabian Villalobos, Elisa Yoshiara, Zohan Hasan Tariq
Research

Apr 28, 2025

Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for Future Gray-Zone Competition: Project Evergreen Analysis

This report presents key aspects of how the U.S. Coast Guard can contribute to national strategic priorities by enforcing the rules-based order and deterring aggressive behavior in the maritime domain to reduce ambiguity in the gray zone by the 2040s.

Eric Cooper, Scott Savitz, Aaron C. Davenport, Peggy Wilcox, Emily Hoch, Camille Reeves, Phoebe Felicia Pham, Annette Prieto, Susan A. Resetar, Sara Stullken, Dulani Woods, Emily Yoder, Michelle D. Ziegler, Melissa Bauman
Research

Apr 24, 2025

The BHP Foundation’s Education Equity Program: Summative Evaluation Report

This report presents summative findings from an evaluation of the BHP Foundation’s Education Equity program. It includes evidence of the program’s impacts and lessons learned related to its design and implementation.

Benjamin K. Master, Elaine Lin Wang, Brian Phillips
Research

Apr 24, 2025

Conceptualising Digital Capability: Enabling NATO Digital Capabilities Series: Paper 1

This paper, part one of a three-part series, examines digital capabilities within NATO, clarifying their role in NATO’s core tasks. We recommend fostering a shared understanding of key concepts for effective digital transformation.

Judith Huismans, Rebecca Lucas, Ondrej Palicka, Sarah Winder, Erik Silfversten
Research

Apr 16, 2025

Identification of Potential U.S. Air Force Skill Gaps

In this report, the authors identify gaps between the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other attributes currently available among U.S. Air Force active-duty personnel and those that are needed for the future.

Miriam Matthews, John A. Ausink, Raymond E. Conley, Kelly Atkinson, Sarah Nicole Kosic, Joshua Fields, Nelson Lim
Research Summary

Apr 15, 2025

Integrating Commercial Space Services into the DoD Architecture: Understanding Operational and Policy Implications

This summary describes highlights from a congressionally directed study exploring implications from the use of commercial space services by the U.S. Department of Defense on space operations and the overall policy environment.

Yool Kim, George Nacouzi, Dwight Phillips, Krista Romita Grocholski, Igor M. Brin, Brian Dolan, Jonathan Fujiwara, John Hoehn, Kotryna Jukneviciute, Gwen Mazzotta, Jordan Willcox, Jonathan P. Wong, Barbara Bicksler
Research

Apr 10, 2025

Exploring the Strategic Potential of Expanded Security Cooperation Support to American Irregular Warfare

The authors explore the value proposition of expanded security cooperation support for irregular warfare in preventing and countering the coercive and malign activities of adversary nation states that target U.S. frontline allies and partners.

Daniel Egel, Alexander Noyes, Annie Yu Kleiman
Research

Apr 9, 2025

The Potential Impact of Seabed Mining on Critical Mineral Supply Chains and Global Geopolitics

Though nascent, the seabed mining industry might one day substantially affect critical mineral supply chains, developing nations’ revenues, and global geopolitics. In this report, the authors conduct a multi-pronged examination of these issues.

Tom LaTourrette, Fabian Villalobos, Elisa Yoshiara, Zohan Hasan Tariq
Research Summary

Mar 27, 2025

How Will Russia Reconstitute Its Military After the Ukraine Conflict?

The authors identify four pathways that Russia might take in reconstituting its armed forces after the end of the war in Ukraine and assess their implications for Russia’s national security and U.S. and Western interests in the European theater.

Michelle Grisé, Mark Cozad, Anna M. Dowd, John Kennedy, Marta Kepe, Clara de Lataillade, Krystyna Marcinek, David Woodworth
Research

Mar 27, 2025

From Camps to Communities: Post-Conflict Shelter in Gaza

This report offers an approach to planning post-conflict civilian shelter in Gaza, blending a new approach to camps, an urban planning technique called incremental urbanism, razing and rebuilding destroyed neighborhoods, and new construction.

Shelly Culbertson, Kobi Ruthenberg, Robert Lane, Nitay Lehrer, Mary E. Vaiana, C. Ross Anthony
Research

Feb 20, 2025

Examining the Feasibility of an East-West Economic Corridor for South and Central Asia: Views from India and Pakistan

The authors, after analyzing literature and interviews with policy experts from India and Pakistan, discuss the feasibility of a land-based East-West Economic Corridor connecting Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan, and the Central Asian republics.

Rafiq Dossani, Arjun Kumar, Zohan Hasan Tariq, Raashid Wali Janjua, Simi Mehta, Khalid Hussain Chandio, Khurram Abbas, Amna Ejaz Rafi, Waleed Yawar
Research

Feb 11, 2025

Operational and Policy Implications of Integrating Commercial Space Services into U.S. Department of Defense Operations

In this congressionally directed report, the authors explore the implications of the use of commercial space services by the U.S. Department of Defense, such as impacts on space operations and the national and international policy environment.

Yool Kim, George Nacouzi, Dwight Phillips, Krista Romita Grocholski, Igor M. Brin, Brian Dolan, Jonathan Fujiwara, John Hoehn, Kotryna Jukneviciute, Gwen Mazzotta, Jordan Willcox, Jonathan P. Wong, Barbara Bicksler

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New Turmoil in Regulating Deep Seabed Mining on the High Seas

What the U.S. Can Learn from China's Industrial Playbook

Averting Unconstrained Nuclear Risks with Russia

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What Are the Potential Impacts of Seabed Mining?

Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for Future Gray-Zone Competition: Project Evergreen Analysis

The BHP Foundation’s Education Equity Program: Summative Evaluation Report

Conceptualising Digital Capability: Enabling NATO Digital Capabilities Series: Paper 1

Identification of Potential U.S. Air Force Skill Gaps

Integrating Commercial Space Services into the DoD Architecture: Understanding Operational and Policy Implications

Exploring the Strategic Potential of Expanded Security Cooperation Support to American Irregular Warfare

The Potential Impact of Seabed Mining on Critical Mineral Supply Chains and Global Geopolitics

How Will Russia Reconstitute Its Military After the Ukraine Conflict?

From Camps to Communities: Post-Conflict Shelter in Gaza

Examining the Feasibility of an East-West Economic Corridor for South and Central Asia: Views from India and Pakistan

Operational and Policy Implications of Integrating Commercial Space Services into U.S. Department of Defense Operations

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Recent Findings

New Turmoil in Regulating Deep Seabed Mining on the High Seas

What the U.S. Can Learn from China's Industrial Playbook

Averting Unconstrained Nuclear Risks with Russia

International Affairs Briefs, Reports, and Testimonies

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What Are the Potential Impacts of Seabed Mining?

Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for Future Gray-Zone Competition: Project Evergreen Analysis

The BHP Foundation’s Education Equity Program: Summative Evaluation Report

Conceptualising Digital Capability: Enabling NATO Digital Capabilities Series: Paper 1

Identification of Potential U.S. Air Force Skill Gaps

Integrating Commercial Space Services into the DoD Architecture: Understanding Operational and Policy Implications

Exploring the Strategic Potential of Expanded Security Cooperation Support to American Irregular Warfare

The Potential Impact of Seabed Mining on Critical Mineral Supply Chains and Global Geopolitics

How Will Russia Reconstitute Its Military After the Ukraine Conflict?

From Camps to Communities: Post-Conflict Shelter in Gaza

Examining the Feasibility of an East-West Economic Corridor for South and Central Asia: Views from India and Pakistan

Operational and Policy Implications of Integrating Commercial Space Services into U.S. Department of Defense Operations

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