Reading List

MANDATORTY Readings (read before the first day of class):

• A National Security Strategy Primer
• National Security Strategy, October 2022
• National Security Council (NSC) and Interagency System
• NSM-2 describing the NSC and Interagency System

• INDOPACIFIC STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES

Required Wargame "Pacific Thunder" Exercise Readings

• -UNCLOS - The Convention on the Law of the Sea | U.S. Navy JAG Corps
• -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).

• The New Rules of War by Sean McFate (book)
• World Order by Henry Kissinger (book)