CIRA China analysts John Chen, Kieran Green, and Joe McReynolds have published a chapter on China’s Strategic Support Force in the newly released academic compilation The PLA Beyond Borders: Chinese Military Operations in Regional and Global Context: Over the past half-decade, China’s military leadership has…
Qassem Soleimani’s death, the prospect of further US-Iranian military escalation, and the reemergence of large protests in Iran in recent months raise the question of Iran’s capacity to conduct military operations beyond its borders while suppressing dissent within them. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)…
A report co-authored by CIRAs’s Kieran Green explores the current military cyber structures and operations of China and Russia in order to postulate how both countries could conduct cyber operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, and their motivations for doing so. The report looks…
