One of the conscious efforts of the military spacefaring community is to contract commercial space-based services to support military missions. In many ways, their aims are being realized with Starlink, Planet, Maxar, and other commercial communications and imagery providers. These commercial systems, however, are vulnerable...
On March 5, 2025, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published the executive summary of NPEC’s most recent war game after-action report: “Assured distraction: How attacks on South Korea’s nuclear reactors could be a smoke screen for wider conflict.” The war game sought to test if a...
On March 5, 2025, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published the executive summary of this occasional paper: “Assured distraction: How attacks on South Korea’s nuclear reactors could be a smoke screen for wider conflict.” Earlier this month, President Trump said he looked forward to re-engaging...
Recent reports of Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use his satellites to help it mount strikes against Russian military targets in Crimea pose a basic question: Just how sustainable might military use of commercial satellites be? So far, the United States and other...
Although it’s generally assumed that what matters most in determining Washington’s policies toward India and Pakistan is how China treats them, there is another way to view South Asia and that is how India and Pakistan relate strategically with Russia. How deep might Moscow’s military...
In the midst of deteriorating security relations between Seoul and Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe recently announced Japan was terminating its joint deployment of a land-based U.S. missile defense system, AEGIS Ashore. Meanwhile, Washington continues to lean on Japan and South Korea to pay...
Click here to access a PDF of this report. Mar 27, 2019 AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski Improving the Role of Intelligence in Counterproliferation Policymaking: Report of the “Speaking Truth to Nonproliferation Project,” 2018 By Henry Sokolski March 2019 This report is the culmination of a two-year project sponsored...
As part of NPEC’s project, “Tracking Emerging Asian Nuclear Weapons Doctrines,” experts were commissioned to study the impact of Russian nuclear military doctrine on the doctrines of China and India. Below are presentations on the preliminary findings of this research. Mar 10, 2018 Tracking Russian...
Brigadier General Feroz Khan’s presentation at the Naval Postgraduate School on Pakistan: Political Transitions and Nuclear Management Feb 27, 2012 AUTHOR: Feroz Khan Pakistan-Political Transitions and Nuclear Management (PDF) 106.11 KB Pakistan: Political Transitions and Nuclear Management By Feroz Hassan Khan[1] Throughout its history, Pakistan...
NPEC’s Executive Director, Henry Sokolski, discusses how the modernization of nuclear weapons and delivery capabilities throughout the world will influence global strategic military competitions over the next two decades. The final version will be published in an edited volume. This paper is a companion piece...
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