NIDS Commentary

2025

  • China’s Aircraft Carrier Fujian: Milestone Achieved, Challenges Ahead in Carrier Aviation
    China’s Aircraft Carrier Fujian: Milestone Achieved, Challenges Ahead in Carrier Aviation
    AITA Moriki
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  • International Power Systems and Energy Security——The Connection of Ukraine and the Baltic States to the European Power Grid
    International Power Systems and Energy Security——The Connection of Ukraine and the Baltic States to the European Power Grid
    MATSUO Koji
    WebWeb
  • B-2 Stealth Bombers over Iran: Why Did These Cinematic Air Strikes Become Reality?
    B-2 Stealth Bombers over Iran: Why Did These Cinematic Air Strikes Become Reality?
    AITA Moriki
    WebWeb
  • China Issues a White Paper Concerning National Security: The “Confidence” and “Anxiety” Presented in the White Paper and their Implications
    China Issues a White Paper Concerning National Security: The “Confidence” and “Anxiety” Presented in the White Paper and their Implications
    GOTO Yohei
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  • The Chinese Ministry of Public Security as an External Influence Agency: Recent Covert Operations and Their Internal Logic as Traced through Open-Source Analysis
    The Chinese Ministry of Public Security as an External Influence Agency: Recent Covert Operations and Their Internal Logic as Traced through Open-Source Analysis
    GOTO Yohei
    SETO Takashi
    WebWeb
  • China’s Basic Perceptions and Recent External Involvement Concerning the Deep Sea
    China’s Basic Perceptions and Recent External Involvement Concerning the Deep Sea
    GOTO Yohei
    WebWeb
  • Japanese Aircraft That Were Transferred Overseas and Subsequently Used for Military Operations in the 1980s
    ISHIHARA Akinori
    WebWeb

2024

  • Development of Air Battle in the Russia - Ukraine War (February 2022 to September 2024)
    AITA Moriki
    WebWeb
  • Lithuania’s 30 Years on the Frontline against Russia —— From Zero Military Armament to the Establishment of a Tank Battalion
    MATSUO Koji
    WebWeb
  • The U.S.-ROK Alliance and the ROK’s Choices: Considerations on Extended Deterrence and Nuclear Armament
    ASAMI Asaki
    WebWeb
  • China and the Myanmar Civil War: —— Operation 1027 and China’s Position
    YAMAGUCHI Shinji
    WebWeb
  • North Korea’s Doctrine of Nuclear Preemption —— War Starting with Nuclear Weapons Rather Than Escalation to a Nuclear War
    WATANABE Takeshi
    WebWeb
  • Revitalized ASEAN-GCC Cooperation —— The First ASEAN-GCC Summit and future prospects
    SUNAGA Kazuo
    WebWeb
  • Analyzing Japan’s Declining Birthrate & Aging Society as a National Security Issue —— Isolating the Problem and Describing Potential Solutions
    Captain Tony Arnold
    WebWeb
  • Ship Logistics During the Russo-Japanese War —— Rice Balls Were Served for a Post-Victory Dinner
    ISHIHARA Akinori
    WebWeb
  • Germany’s Overcoming of its Past and Japan —— The “Learn from Germany Theory” and its Aftermath
    SHOJI Junichiro
    WebWeb
  • Trends in the Militaries of Western Advanced Countries (Part 6) —— The Implications of WPS Implementation for Militaries
    IWATA Eiko
    WebWeb
  • Trends in the Militaries of Western Advanced Countries (Part 5) —— Gender Mainstreaming in the UK Armed Forces as a Case Study
    IWATA Eiko
    WebWeb
  • Trends in the Militaries of Western Advanced Countries (Part 4) —— Gender Mainstreaming in the United States Armed Forces as a case study
    IWATA Eiko
    WebWeb
  • Japanese Ministry of Defense’s “Defense Diplomacy” —— Revitalized Engagement with ASEAN and Pacific Island Countries
    AIZAWA Riho
    WebWeb
  • Trends in the Militaries of Western Advanced Countries (Part 3) Gender Mainstreaming in NATO as a Case Study
    IWATA Eiko
    WebWeb
  • Trends in the Militaries of Western Advanced Countries (Part 2) —— Gender Mainstreaming in the Australian Defence Force as a case study
    IWATA Eiko
    WebWeb
  • Chinese Stealth Bomber Development Efforts and Implications: What should we understand at the present time?
    AITA Moriki
    WebWeb
  • Gender Perspectives for Operational Effectiveness——An Opportunity for U.S. Forces Japan and the Japan Self Defense Forces
    Jamie Leonheart
    WebWeb
  • China’s Southwest Island Patrols: Freedom of Movement Through Encroachment
    Andrew Orchard
    WebWeb

2023

  • Trends in the Militaries of Western Advanced Countries
    IWATA Eiko
    WebWeb
  • Chinese PLA Intrusions into Taiwan’s ADIZ (2) The “system” that enables multi-aircraft formation intrusions.
    AITA Moriki
    WebWeb
  • China’s Perspective on the Use of Russian Airpower What lessons is the People’s Liberation Army learning from the air battle in Ukraine?
    AITA Moriki
    WebWeb
  • ASEAN in the Global South ——Strengthening relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
    SUNAGA Kazuo
    WebWeb
  • The U.S.-ROK Washington Declaration: Autonomy and control in deterrence strategy
    WATANABE Takeshi
    WebWeb
  • The Shock of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Shift in Germany’s Security Policy?
    KOBASHI Fumiyuki, Ph.D.
    WebWeb
  • The "minilateral moment" and the regional security architecture in the Indo-Pacific
    Thomas S. Wilkins
    WebWeb

2022

  • China and the Russia-Ukraine War:China’s Growing Partnership with Russia against the U.S. and Its Limits
    YAMAGUCHI Shinji
    WebWeb
  • Weaponized Disclosure of Intelligence in the Russia-Ukraine War
    —— Disclosure Dilemma and Hidden Inheritances from post-2014
    SETO Takashi
    WebWeb
  • Chinese PLA Intrusions into Taiwan's ADIZ(1): The Past Two Years
    AITA Moriki
    WebWeb
  • Chinese drone TB-001 may have been involved in Ballistic Missile Impact
    AITA Moriki
    WebWeb
  • The Potential for the Study of “Lessons of History” in Responding to Cognitive Warfare
    MORONAGA Masaru
    WebWeb
  • Richard Sorge and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
    SHIMIZU Ryotaro
    WebWeb
  • Russia's Compellence Tactics on Ukraine
    YAMAZOE Hiroshi
    WebWeb
  • The Current Status and Prospects of China's Growing Marine Corps
    IIDA Masafumi
    WebWeb
  • Why India Abstained from UN Votes on Ukraine
    IZUYAMA Marie
    WebWeb
  • Yemeni Civil War Enters its Eighth Year -- The Impact on the Civil War of the Riyadh Agreement and the Rise of the Joint Resistance Forces --
    YOSHIDA Tomoaki
    WebWeb
  • Thinking about the Future of Military Logistics
    ISHIZU Tomoyuki
    WebWeb
  • Congress versus China: Examining Congressional Policy on China and the Aftermath of the 2022 Midterm Election
    Colin Timmerman
    WebWeb
  • Japan's National Security Perspective 2022 (1)
    The Need for Enhanced Deterrence against China
    IIDA Masafumi
    WebWeb
  • Prospects for the UK's nuclear arms control and non-proliferation policy after the publication of the integrated review of "Global Britain in a competitive age"
    ICHIMASA Sukeyuki
    WebWeb
  • Truth and Exaggeration in Russian Narrative of "NATO Expansion Threat"
    YAMAZOE Hiroshi
    WebWeb

2021

  • Series:30 AnniversaryoftheGulfWar,#5
    Technological Development and Military Reform: Revolutionary Change in the Way of War or Revival of the Feature of U.S. Defense Culture?
    KINOSHITA Yukihiro
    WebWeb
  • North Korea Talks Could Become a Worse Version of the INF Negotiations
    WATANABE Takeshi
    WebWeb
  • The 11th SMA and the Discussion on the Application of Increasing Rate in Defense Expenditure
    ASAMI Asaki
    WebWeb
  • China's Way for an Innovation-Driven PLA
    YATSUZUKA Masaaki
    WebWeb
  • Escalation of the Crisis in Ukraine in the Spring of 2021
    YAMAZOE Hiroshi
    WebWeb
  • Warfare in the Cognitive Domain: Narrative, Emotionality, and Temporality
    NAGANUMA Kazumi
    WebWeb
  • U.S.-China Hypercompetition and the U.S. Strategy towards China - The Army as the grid in the Indo-Pacific
    IKEGAMI Ryuzo
    WebWeb
  • Thoughts on the "Comfort Women Statue" in Berlin
    SHOJI Junichiro
    WebWeb
  • A Free and Open Indo-Pacific as a Major Narrative: The Reconstruction of Values in Asia
    NAGANUMA Kazumi
    WebWeb
  • Security Prospects After the American Presidential Election 10 The Situation in the Middle East After the Establishment of the New Biden Administration: Considering future prospects through data analysis
    KOZUKA Ikuya
    WebWeb
  • The Korean Peninsula on the Eve of the Biden Administration: Politicized Nuclear Question and Great Power Politics
    WATANABE Takeshi
    WebWeb
  • The first Royal Navy aircraft carrier deployment to the Indo-Pacific since 2013: Reminiscent of an untold story of Japan-UK defence cooperation
    NAGANUMA Kazumi
    WebWeb

2020

  • An Asian NATO: A double-edged phrase
    NAGANUMA Kazumi
    WebWeb

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