Welcome to the National Security Research Reading Room
Research Papers
- The Enduring Threat of War
- Is War the Error Term?
- Blundering Into War
- National Security Implications of Accelerating Technologies
- Defense Science Board 2030 Capabilities Report
- Defense Science Board Report on Capability Surprise
- US Military Capabilities for a Dangerous World
- Potential for a Battlefield Singularity
- Strategic Competition in Era of AI
- The Operational Environment of Future War
- Modern Political Warfare
- China and the International Order
- Chinese Strategic Concepts
- China Operational Concept: Systems War
- Scenarios: War with China
- The Russian Way of War
- Deterring Russian in the Baltics
Recommended Books
- The Future of War: A History, by Lawrence Freedman
- Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, by Paul Scharre
- World Order, by Henry Kissinger
- The Revenge of Geography, by Robert Kaplan
- A World in Disarray, by Richard Haas
- Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century, by Seva Gunitsky
- On Grand Strategy, by John Lewis Gaddis
- American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump, by Hal Brands
- Lone Wolf Terrorism, by Jeffrey Simon
- Destined for War: Can American and China Escape Thucydide's Trap? by Graham Allison
- Haunted by Chaos: China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, by Sulmaan Wasif Khan
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