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Spring 2025
Welcome
The editorial board welcomes you to Missouri State University's electronic journal
Defense and Strategic Studies Online (DASSO).
In the inaugural issue from Fall 2024, the Board offers an introduction to MSU's Defense and Strategic Studies (DSS) program and to its flagship publication.
Please enjoy our latest issue and archives below.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3
In the inaugural issue from Fall 2024, the Board offers an introduction to MSU's Defense and Strategic Studies (DSS) program and to its flagship publication.
Please enjoy our latest issue and archives below.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3
Vol. 1, No. 3
Cybernetics and Comprehensive National Power
The Grand Strategy of China's "National Rejuvenation"
Dr. Christopher Ford, John Schurtz, and Erik Quam offer a detailed analytical account of how cybernetic theories of social control developed by the scientist Qian Xuesen and his disciples were adopted by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and are today critical to understanding the Party’s domestic governance and foreign relations.
Dr. Christopher Ford, John Schurtz, and Erik Quam offer a detailed analytical account of how cybernetic theories of social control developed by the scientist Qian Xuesen and his disciples were adopted by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and are today critical to understanding the Party’s domestic governance and foreign relations.
Vol. 1, No. 3
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
Securing American Military Energy in an Era of Vulnerability and Demand
Paul Schecklman recounts how rising overall electricity demand, the evolving nature of warfare, and adversary threats to U.S. critical infrastructure combine to create a potential crisis of resilient electricity supply for the U.S. Department of Defense, and how novel nuclear reactor designs now under development could help meet that challenge.
Paul Schecklman recounts how rising overall electricity demand, the evolving nature of warfare, and adversary threats to U.S. critical infrastructure combine to create a potential crisis of resilient electricity supply for the U.S. Department of Defense, and how novel nuclear reactor designs now under development could help meet that challenge.
Vol. 1, No. 3
Lessons from Small-State Deterrence
Europe and the Nazis, 1937-44
Drew Nickels explores the potential and degree of historical success enjoyed by Czechoslovakia, Romania, Sweden, and Switzerland in trying to apply "deterrence by denial" strategies to their relations with the Nazi regime in the years before and during the Second World War.
Drew Nickels explores the potential and degree of historical success enjoyed by Czechoslovakia, Romania, Sweden, and Switzerland in trying to apply "deterrence by denial" strategies to their relations with the Nazi regime in the years before and during the Second World War.
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2025 papers
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2024 papers
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