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On The Horizon

Doreen Horschig, et al. | 2025.12.18

This report explores the future of nuclear strategy, offering perspectives from emerging experts on disruptive technology, intensifying geopolitical rivalries, and strategic stability.

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Japan’s National Preparedness

Daniel Byman, et al. | 2025.12.18

Japan has many strengths for tremendous potential of resilience. However, further investments are required to bolster relatively undeveloped elements of national security resilience that China or another foe may seek to exploit.

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Euro-Atlantic Security

Ed Arnold and Darya Dolzikova | 2025.12.18

This paper highlights the urgent need for Europe to reshape its security framework to address emerging threats and ensure long-term stability and strategic advantage against the most significant challenges to its security since 1945.

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Another Nuclear Age

Paul Bracken | 2025.12.18

This is the second nuclear age. It retains many of the characteristics of the first, but reframes how we think about the future.

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Foreign Influence In Japan

Naoki Takeda | 2025.12.17

This paper examines Japan’s vulnerability to foreign influence and proposes legislative measures, drawing lessons from the UK, the US and Australia.

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Drones And Components

Mirko Niederkofler | 2025.12.17

Ukraine’s drone success holds a deeper lesson for NATO: technological sovereignty at the component level is essential to future battlefield dominance.

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China In Southeast Asia

Lauren Mai and Andreyka Natalegawa | 2025.12.17

With the Trump administration revoking Biden-era programs to support energy transitions in Southeast Asia, there is a widening funding gap that China is poised to fill.

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U.S. Naval Shipbuilding

Seamus P. Daniels, et al. | 2025.12.16

The U.S. naval shipbuilding enterprise struggles to produce ships at the scale and speed demanded despite being a bipartisan priority for successive administrations and Congress. The White House must tackle complex, longstanding challenges to improve shipbuilding capacity.

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The Atlantic Bastion

Sidharth Kaushal and Edward Black | 2025.12.16

This paper assesses the probable deterrent effect of the Atlantic Bastion, a strategic concept outlined in the UK’s Strategic Defence Review.

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Europe’s Minilateral Moment

Neil Melvin | 2025.12.16

The rise of “minilateral” Europe now stands at a crossroads. Will countries seek to structure the new ad hoc formats to retain a distinct European security community, or risk further fragmentation?

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