USAHEC: Periodical Articles for Current Awareness 2025: JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2025

AFRICA

"Can Africa Fight Hunger by Embracing its "Forgotten" Crops?"
Rosen, Jonathan. MIT Technology Review, Volume 127, Issue 6 (November/December 2024): 32-39.
"Maps, Flags, and Security in the Indo-Pacific: Reframing China’s Influence in Africa."
Cannon, Brandon. African Security (November 8, 2024).
"The First Trump Administration Used Sanctions Effectively in Africa. Here’s How That Can Resume in the Second Term."
Brooks-Rubin, Brad. Just Security (December 13, 2024).
"Understanding the Dynamics of State Responses to Security Threats in the Sahel."
Piombo, Jessica et al. African Security (November 16, 2024).

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

"America Is Winning the Race for Global AI Primacy—for Now."
Kahl, Colin H. Foreign Affairs (January 17, 2025).
"DeepSeek Doesn’t Signal an AI Space Race."
Palmer, James. Foreign Policy (January 28, 2025).
“How to Marry Process Management and AI.”
Davenport, Thomas H. and Thomas C. Redman. Harvard Business Review, Volume 103, Issue 1 (January/February 2025): 38-44.
"Strategic Centaurs: Harnessing Hybrid Intelligence for the Speed of AI-enabled War."
Barry, William J., Chase Metcalf and Blair Wilcox. Modern War Institute (January 17, 2025).
“The Secret to Successful AI-Driven Process Redesign.”
Wilson, H. James and Paul R. Daugherty. Harvard Business Review, Volume 103, Issue 1 (January/February 2025): 45-51.

AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS

"Battlefield Drones and the Accelerating Autonomous Arms Race in Ukraine."
Bendett,Samuel. Modern War Institute (January 10, 2025).
"Imagining a US Army Drone Corps."
Suthoff, Joshua. Modern War Institute (December 19, 2024).

CHINA

"Bases on the Aleutian Islands Would Project U.S. Power Across the Pacific."
Hulse, Steve. Proceedings of the US Naval Institute, Volume 151, Issue 1 (January 2025).
"China Has Raised the Cyber Stakes: The 'Salt Typhoon' Hack Revealed America’s Profound Vulnerability."
Segal, Adam. Foreign Affairs (January 21, 2025).
"China’s Slowdown Has Changed the Trade War."
Rosen, Daniel H., Reva Goujon and Logan Wright. Foreign Affairs (December 17, 2024).
"Clash in the Gray Zone: China’s System to Win Without Fighting."
Lawrence, Dustin. Military Review (November-December 2024).
"Confucianism, Business Leaders, and Party-State Power in Contemporary China."
Lan, Jiang Fu. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3 (December 2024): 453-476).
"Intra-Party Rules: Rebuilding the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Ecology".
Mittelstaedt, Jean Christopher. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 3 (December 2024): 507-536.

CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS

"Civil-Military Relations and Domestic Terrorism."
Kiyani, Ghashia et al. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Volume 69, Number 1 (January 2025): 127-151.
"Economic Sanctions and Civil–Military Relations in Target Countries."
Kiyani, Ghashia et al. Armed Forces and Society, Volume 51, Number. 1 (January 2025): 92-122.
"Predicting Armed Conflict Using Protest Data."
Rød, Espen. Journal of Peace Research, Volume 62, Issue 1 (January 2025): 3-20.
"The Specter of the Casualty: Elite Misreading of British Public Perceptions of the Soldier 2001–2014."
Shindler, Adam. Armed Forces & Society (December 3, 2024).
"Trusting Neighbours?: Public Perceptions on Civil Defence Cooperation Across the Nordics."
Bengtsson, Rikard and Douglas Brommensson. Cooperation and Conflict (December 7, 2024).

ETHICS

"Human Rights Violations and Public Support for Sanctions."
Ari, Barış and Burak Sonmez. Journal of Peace Research, Volume 62, Issue 1 (January 2025): 68-84.

FOREIGN POLICY

“Cambodia’s Foreign Policy (Re)Alignments amid Great Power Geopolitical Competition.”
Luo, Jing Jing. The Pacific Review, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2025): 60–89.
“Domestic Imperative of the Philippines’ South China Sea Policy: Personality-Driven Policymaking and Constant Shifts between China and the United States.”
Nguyen, Phuong Ly. The Pacific Review, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2025): 29–59.
"Ending War Is Hard to Do."
Rose, Gideon. Foreign Affairs (January 21, 2025).
"The New, and Low, Normal in U.S.-Pakistan Relations."
Afzal, Madiha. Lawfare (January 19, 2024).
"Uncertain Times Ahead for U.S.-Mexico Intelligence Cooperation."
Coulthart, Stephen. Lawfare (January 21, 2024).

GEOPOLITICS

"Biden’s Unfinished Business: A Bridge to Shore Up a European Flank – in the Balkans."
Bassuener, Kurt. Just Security (December 12, 2024).
"Greenland’s Door Is Open for Trump."
Hockenos, Paul. Foreign Policy (January 27, 2025).
“Looking under the Hood of Joint Naval Exercises: Motives and Perceived Benefits for Japan.”
Rossiter, Ash. The Pacific Review, Volume 38, Issue 1 (2025): 147–172.

GRAND STRATEGY

"History is Written by the Losers: Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Aftermath of War."
Rovner, Joshua. Journal of Strategic Studies, Volume 48, Issue 1 (January 2025): 5-35.

GREAT POWER COMPETITION

"Cooptation in Great Power Rivalries: A Conceptual Framework."
Heiman, Gadi et al. Contemporary Security Policy (November 20, 2024).

INDO-PACIFIC

"Q&A: The Vast Interconnected Pacific."
Schneider, Kevin. Air & Space Forces Magazine (1 November 2024).
"Smart Power or Strategic Apathy?: The New Zealand Defence Force and the Politics of Capability Building and Deployment in the Indo-Pacific."
Espia, Juhn. Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (November 20, 2024).
"Space Security in Indo-Pacific: an Indonesian Perspective."
Sudirman, Arfin and Taufik Rachmat Nugraha. Asian Security (December 3, 2024).

IRREGULAR WARFARE

"Civil Resistance and Irregular Warfare Education."
Petit, Brian. Military Review (November-December 2024).
"Confronting Irregular Warfare in the South China Sea: Lessons Learned from Vietnam."
Cragin, Kim R. Military Review (November-December 2024).
"Lessons from the Underground: How the Joint Multinational Readiness Center Trains Resistance to Occupation."
Jackan, Daniel. Military Review (November-December 2024).
"Sadr City, 2008: An Urban Warfare Project Case Study."
Spencer, John. Modern War Institute (January 14, 2025).

LEADERSHIP

"How World War II Bureaucratic Sabotage Endures in the Defense Department, and How to Fight Back."
Bonnell, Alexis. Texas National Security Review, Volume 8, Issue 1 (Winter 2024).
“Leaders Shouldn't Try to Do It All.”
Lafley, A. G. and Roger L. Martin. Harvard Business Review, Volume 103, Issue 1 (January/February): 78-85.

MIDDLE EAST

"How to Hold Syria Together."
Heller, Sam. Foreign Affairs (December 16, 2024).
"The West’s Strategic Opportunity in Syria: Forcing Dilemmas on Moscow that Roll Back Russian Power and Influence."
Crowther, Alex . Modern War Institute (December 16, 2024).

RUSSIA

"Putin's Point of No Return: How an Unchecked Russia Will Challenge the West."
Kendell-Taylor, Andrea and Michael Kofman. Foreign Affairs, Volume 104, Number 1 (January/February 2025): 72-87.

RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR

"Democratization of Irregular Warfare: Emerging Technology and the Russo-Ukrainian War."
Wheat, Treston. Military Review (November-December 2024).
"Trump’s Endgame for the War in Ukraine."
Kelly, Michael and Craig Martin. Just Security (December 17, 2024).

TALENT MANAGEMENT

"Part-Time Military Service."
Roza, David. Air & Space Forces Magazine (November 1, 2024).
"Welcome to the U.S. Army: A Qualitative Examination of the Army’s Reception of New Soldiers."
Kintzle, Sara et al. Armed Forces and Society, Volume 51, Issue 1 (January 2025): 337-360.

Periodical Articles for Current Awareness 2025: JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2025

General Information - PAC

AFRICA

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS

CHINA

CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS

ETHICS

FOREIGN POLICY

GEOPOLITICS

GRAND STRATEGY

GREAT POWER COMPETITION

INDO-PACIFIC

IRREGULAR WARFARE

LEADERSHIP

MIDDLE EAST

RUSSIA

RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR

TALENT MANAGEMENT