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Capitol Hill Day
Strategic Policy Exercise
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Required Readings
A National Security Strategy Primer
National Security Council (NSC) and Interagency System
Joint Warfighting Concept
Required Wargame "Pacific Thunder" Exercise Readings
-Chinese Revolution of 1949
Milestones: 1945–1952 - Office of the Historian (state.gov)
-Three Communiques -
Is it time to scrap the China-US ‘Three Communiques’? | The Hill
-China’s ‘Never Again’ Mentality -
China’s ‘Never Again’ Mentality – The Diplomat
-China’s Belt & Road Initiative
China’s Massive Belt and Road Initiative | Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org)
Recommended Books/Articles
(not required/purchase is not required).
CIA Fact Book
The New Rules of War
by Sean McFate (book)
World Order
by Henry Kissinger (book)