Strategic & Operational Research Department

This institute studies China’s rapid commercial and maritime development. Research topics include shipbuilding, global commerce, law of the sea, and naval diplomacy.

Over the last decade, it’s become vital for the U.S. Navy and its partners to better understand the strategic and operational factors that shape Russia’s approach to maritime issues.

Challenges lurk in cyberspace, including surveillance programs and wide-scale disruptions to government and corporations. This center advances and promotes research, education, and analysis in the evolving field of digital defense.

This institute focuses on the long-term needs of the U.S. Navy and national security. The center’s innovative, timely research and analysis will help leadership anticipate operational and strategic challenges.

The Cyber & Innovation Policy Institute Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., Program is a Directed Research Project. This graduate-level program guides advanced student research on cyber operations and the information environment.

This faculty-student program focuses on the tactical and operational level of war at the classified level. Participants use operations analysis and free-play wargaming to examine high-intensity conventional warfare scenarios.

This group examines potential military challenges within the Middle East. This faculty-student collaborative group uses iterative, ongoing wargaming and operational analysis as its primary methodology.

In this part-time program students will examine Russian and U.S. weapons systems, doctrines, and warfighting capabilities in all domains. They will focus on adversary military capabilities, maritime and naval doctrine, and strategy.