McKenzie Selected as 21st President at The Citadel Military College of South Carolina

GNSI Executive Director graduated from The Citadel in 1979 and now sees his military career come full circle, as he will take over on July 1 as the next president of the prestigious military college in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Presentations by Students from the Future Strategist Program a Highlight of Tampa Summit 6

The future of national security leadership was on display at USF during the recently completed conference at USF March 24-25.

In keeping with the conference theme, the students all presented nuclear-related research. You'll find videos of their presentations on our YouTube channel in the near future.

GNSI Decision Brief: The Three-Body Trap: The New Geometry of Nuclear Deterrence

For eight decades, since the dawn of the nuclear age, global security operated on a "Two-Body" physics (U.S. and Russia). Now a third body has entered the equation (China), and the global landscape has been fundamentally altered, resulting in chaos and instability.

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Current Issue: (Vol 19, No.1)

Post-Ukraine Fallout: How Azerbaijan's Break with Russia Reflects the Strategic Consequences of a Weakened Kremlin Russia's weakening power and Azerbaijan's growing autonomy drove a strategic realignment, with recent incidents revealing but not causing the collapse of their traditional asymmetrical relationship.

JSS Archives: (Volume 15, No.4)

Fifth Generation Warfare, Hybrid Warfare, and Gray Zone Conflict: A Comparison Scholars debate fifth generation, hybrid, and gray zone warfare, arguing each offers distinct yet complementary insights into modern conflict beyond traditional war despite conceptual weaknesses.

A Special GNSI Report from the Florida Security Forum

"Florida's Maritime Edge: Built Through Leadership, Ready for What's Next" provides strategic insights and priorities for cyber, workforce and autonomous readiness for Florida's deepwater sea ports. A team of researchers built upon the work from the first-ever, Florida Security Forum, to publish this outstanding report.


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Strategy Competition Coming to International Security Experience

20 teams will compete in the first-ever USF Undergraduate Strategy Competition. as part of the 2026 ISE. Teams from Poland will participate, along with teams from Duke, Georgetown, Arizona State, Texas A&M and many more.

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At the Boundary

• Is Missile Defense Making the World Safer or More Dangerous?
• Could the Ocean Floor Decide the Future of National Security?
• After New START Treaty: Is the World Entering a New Nuclear Arms Race?
• Could Cyberattacks Bring Modern Economies to a Halt?

What's Really Happening?


GNSI Executive Director, retired Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie, concludes his series on the portrayal of nuclear warfare in movies and TV shows by examining "House of Dynamite." What did the movie get right? Not much, according McKenzie, who said the depiction of a fictitious single-weapon attack on Chicago missed the mark in almost every respect.


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