Reading List

Required Readings 

• National Security Strategy
• A National Security Strategy Primer
• National Security Council (NSC) and Interagency System
• Joint Warfighting Concept
• IC 2025 Annual Assessment

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).

• Strategic Assessment 2025: Evolving Great Power Competition at Mid-Decade
• The New Rules of War by Sean McFate (book)
• World Order by Henry Kissinger (book)