Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

06/18/2026

This week DKI APCSS welcomed the Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium 26 > United States Marine Corps Flagship > News Display https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/4519591/pacific-amphibious-leaders-symposium-26-commences/

U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, will host the 12th Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium 2026 at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 16-18, 2026.

06/12/2026

Read “Holding the Line at Sea” by Shyam Tekwani and Saumya Sampath, a chapter in the book "America's Strategic Edge” now available online at https://dkiapcss.edu/americas-strategic-edge/

06/12/2026

Last spring, DKI APCSS hosted the one-week Mobile Indo-Pacific Orientation Course in Washington D.C. Here's a quick video about the value of this course which helps to educate, connect, and empower U.S. partner and ally security practitioners about security issues throughout the Indo-Pacific region. The course also enables security practitioners a place to have dialog, discuss current issues, and find possible solutions to complex challenges that affect the region.

The Mobile Indo-Pacific Orientation Course is a one-week event that...

06/12/2026

Congratulations to the Fellows of the Comprehensive Security Cooperation course (CSC 26-2). On Wednesday, 142 Fellows from 24 locations around the world completed the course focused on looking for solutions to complex security challenges in the region. Aloha CSC Fellows and safe travels home!

06/11/2026

A new Security Nexus perspective by Dr. Deon Canyon, examines what happens when states accept infrastructure financing without establishing access conditions—and discover too late that the strategic terrain was shaped without their participation.
The third paper in a series on access, basing, and overflight ( ) decisions for hedging states, “Shaping Access Terrain: Accepting the Loan, Ceding the Terrain,” introduces “access terrain” as a strategic concept: the legal, institutional, and operational conditions governing who can use strategically significant , on what terms, and subject to whose approval. Drawing on the cases of , , and , the author argues that whoever shapes the terrain first sets the conditions for everyone who follows—and that the moment to act is before the first concrete is poured.
Read the full paper at: https://dkiapcss.edu/nexus_articles/shaping-access-terrain-accepting-the-loan-ceding-the-terrain/

06/10/2026

Yesterday the CSC 26-2 Fellows engaged in the "Great Game", a national security decision-making Megagame. Fellows confronted complex gray zone scenarios, challenging them to navigate the intricate dynamics of global cooperation and strategic competition.

06/09/2026

DKI APCSS was honored to welcome the Honorable Michael J. Borders Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Installations, and Environment, Department of the Air Force, and his special assistant Mr. Abe Vasquez on June 8, 2026. DKI APCSS leadership briefed him on current initiatives, strategy, and how the Center supports INDOPACOM strategic objectives. He also participated in a faculty roundtable on , and in the region.
Pictured are: DKI APCSS Dean of the College Carleton Cramer, Dean of Business Operations and Admissions (DABO) Wade Turvold, the Honorable Michael J. Borders Jr., DKI APCSS Deputy Director Russ Bailey, Deputy DABO U.S Air Force Col. Jeffrey Digsby, and Special Assistant to the assistant secretary Mr. Abe Vasquez.

06/09/2026

Aloha, these upcoming Dialogue and Strategic Voices podcasts will be recorded during an upcoming program in Brunei.

* Strategic Voices - Changing Character of War: Has Technology Changed How Wars are Won?

* Dialogue - Seizing the Orbital High Ground with Dr. Namrata Goswami

We'll post the videos as soon as they are available. Mahalo!

06/09/2026

A new Security Nexus Perspective by Deon Canyon and Michael Kolton examines why the dominant metric—defense spending as a percentage of —falls short in the and offers practitioners a tailored alternative.
In “Beyond the Two Percent: A Practitioner Framework for Assessing Burden Sharing in the Indo-Pacific,” the authors introduce the Burden and Responsibility Index for Security Contributions (BRISC)—a tiered, weighted, practitioner-ready instrument grounded in the federal government’s own multi-dimensional burden-sharing framework. BRISC organizes partner contributions across five tiers, applies context-variable weights that shift from peacetime to contingency, and incorporates an access, basing, and overflight conditionality modifier that accounts for partners whose access commitments are hedged or unreliable under pressure. Through illustrative case studies of , the , and , the paper demonstrates how the instrument reveals the strategic value of contributions that -derived metrics often overlook—giving security cooperation officers a more actionable basis for engagement.
Read the full paper at https://dkiapcss.edu/nexus_articles/beyond-the-two-percent-a-practitioner-framework-for-assessing-burden-sharing-in-the-indo-pacific/

06/09/2026

DKI APCSS Fellows celebrate new found friendship at Taste of the World as the Comprehensive Security Cooperation course (CSC 26-2) comes to an end.