Jul 30, 2026

The declassification and public disclosure of US intelligence in anticipation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—together with the subsequent sharing of intelligence with Ukraine during the conflict—have significant implications for national security policy making and military operations in future support of allies and partners. Such intelligence disclosure and sharing provide critical advantages, but they also carry substantial risks.

Jul 22, 2026

Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, visiting faculty at the China Landpower Studies Center at the US Army War College and an associate professor at the University of Texas—Austin, joins the CLSC Dialogues to discuss the People’s Republic of China’s four Global Initiatives and her recent publication on China’s mobilizational initiatives.

Jul 21, 2026

Nam Tran

Jun 25, 2026

By Joshua Arostegui

n April 2026, PLA Daily reported that the Material and Energy Bureau of the Central Military Commission (CMC) Logistics Support Department (中央军委后勤保障部军需能源局) has formally compiled and distributed the Military Dietary Nutrition and Standardized Production Guidance Series (军队膳食营养与标准化制作指导丛书). Distributed across all People’s Liberation Army (PLA) theaters, services, and arms, this multivolume guidance represents a sweeping institutional effort to digitize, industrialize, and scientifically standardize tactical sustenance down to the grassroots level. Rather than treating field feeding as a localized administrative task, the new regulations introduce quantifiable “Field Support Recommendation Indexes” and mandate a transition toward data-driven, phase-specific dietary planning.