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Strategic Voices Episode 1 – India’s Grand Vision: Can Strategy Match Ambition?
Ivan Luong | 18 Dec 2025

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Transnational Security Course 25-2 – Mutual Understanding is Critical
Ivan Luong | 18 Dec 2025

*/ By Douglas Carroll, public information specialist for DKI APCSS Continue reading
Inaugural JPME2 Indo-Pacific Orientation Course Concludes, Cultivating New Regional Experts
| 18 Dec 2025

Honolulu, Hawaii — The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) successfully hosted the first-ever JPME2 Indo-Pacific Orientation Course (JIPOC 25-1), a 13-week, specially designed executive education program that concluded in December 2025. This landmark effort, a collaboration between DKI APCSS, the National Defense University (NDU), and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), enhanced the capabilities of U.S. security practitioners focused on the Indo-Pacific region. Continue reading
Security Nexus Perspective: Small States and the Geopolitical Chessboard in the Indo-Pacific
Ivan Luong | 15 Dec 2025

A new Security Nexus Perspective by Dr. Andrea Malji, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, examines the strategic role of small states in the Indo-Pacific and their growing influence in global geopolitics. Continue reading
Security Nexus Perspective: Critical Minerals and Coercive Power in the Indo-Pacific
Ivan Luong | 12 Dec 2025

A new Security Nexus Perspective by Andrea Malji, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, examines the strategic role of critical minerals in the Indo-Pacific and their use as tools of geopolitical leverage. Continue reading

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ghosts at the border: unfinished conflicts in south asia

Security Nexus Perspective Explores How Unresolved Conflicts Undermine Stability in South Asia

From APCSS | by Ivan Luong | 02 May 2025

In this Security Nexus Perspective, “Ghosts at the Border: Unfinished Conflicts in South Asia,” Shyam Tekwani, a Read More

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Forging Unbreakable Bonds: IPSEL SMEE 25-1 Cultivates Enlisted Leadership Across the Indo-Pacific

From APCSS | by Ivan Luong | 28 Apr 2025

Beneath the welcoming skies of Honolulu, the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS), in close collaboration with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), hosted a pivotal gathering from April 20–26, 2025: IPSEL SMEE 25-1. Read More

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Security Nexus Perspective: U.S.–India Drone Collaboration as the Future of Deterrence

From APCSS | by Ivan Luong | 25 Apr 2025

A Security Nexus perspective, “From Factory to Frontline: Why U.S.–India Drone Collaboration Could Shape the Next Era of Read More

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Maluhia Talks 2025 Shine a Light on Regional Challenges

From APCSS | by Ivan Luong | 21 Apr 2025

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1388 - Joint Color Guard marching at the Ernie Pyle 80th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony

Ernie Pyle: Remembering a true storyteller

From APCSS | by Ivan Luong | 21 Apr 2025

“Ernie Pyle was never the loudest man in the room—but he spoke with a voice that carried across oceans, across battlefields, and across generations.” This was how the director of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, retired US Army Maj. Read More

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AUKUS And The Militarization Of Indo Pacific

From APCSS | by Dena Austria | 29 Mar 2023

DKI APCSS alumnus Commodore Venugopal Menon writes, "Although the pact would focus mainly on the Pacific and the South China Sea region, any action designed to deter China with or without New Delhi's active participation is a welcome move". Read More

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Search and Rescue Capacity Building of Nepal's Security Forces For Effective Response

From APCSS | by Dena Austria | 09 Nov 2022

Jeevan K.C., an alumnus of DKIAPCSS CCM 18-1, published an article highlighting Nepal's security forces integral role in disaster response and its need of the capacity building in search and rescue. Read More

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Space & Beyond - the First Aviation and Aerospace Chronicle in Bangladesh

From APCSS | anonymous | 14 Jun 2022

APCSS alumnus Dr. Zahid Khan published Space & Beyond, which he says is "A baby steps effort to showcase, encourage and create new knowledge on the growing aviation and aerospace sector in Bangladesh." Read More

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Nepal: A fertile ground for Buddhist diplomacy

From APCSS | anonymous | 13 Jun 2022

APCSS alumnus Binoj Basnyat writes, "Prime Minister Modi made an official visit to Lumbini, Nepal—Lord Buddha’s birthplace—on 16 May 2022 on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. Read More

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Russian Aggression In Ukraine And Outcome In South Asia

From APCSS | anonymous | 01 Jun 2022

APCSS alumnus Binoj Basnyat writes, "When the world is being wedged by COVID-19 the war now has added to the predicament. A third of global wheat and barley, over half of world’s sunflower seed oil is produced in Russia and Ukraine." Read More

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