SIMULEX Duquesne 2025

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Gumberg Library has set up a research portal with some excellent online resources which will be invaluable in writing your national security strategy and developing your policy positions.  You may access it here: https://guides.library.duq.edu/simulex-duq-2025

SIMULEX Details

1. SIMULEX Duquesne 2025 will consist of five teams:  The People’s Republic of China (PRC), the United States of America (USA), the Republic of Taiwan, Japan, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea).  All of the other non-playing but relevant actors (such as Russia, the Philippines, South Korea, United Nations, etc.) will be played by rote through the Control Cell.
2. Students competing in SIMULEX Duquesne 2025 will include collegian alumni from past Simulexes. 
3. The game portion of Simulex Duquesne 2025, Move One, commences Friday, April 4th, at 5:00 pm and concludes at 9:00 pm.  It recommences with Move Two on Saturday, April 5th at 8:00 am and concludes at 5:00 pm.
4. (Student) National Security Strategy briefings will be on Wednesday, April 2nd at 6:00 pm.  They should be done to professional standards.  Ask to see previous examples.
5. Hayden Plenary Speaker Dr. James R. Martin will present a lecture on Thursday night, April 3, 2025.

From the China Team of the Institute for the Study of War

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1. Political

• Deep Sea Mining Is the New Front in Pacific Competition | RealClearDefense
• The Return of Great-Power Diplomacy | Foreign Affairs
• Trump Must Rally International Support Against the Chinese Communist Party | Hudson Institute
• Chinese Cognitive Domain Operations as Propaganda Attacks on the US-Japan Alliance | RAND
• Can Track 2 Discussions Help Stem the Decline in U.S.-China Relations? | RAND
• All - South China Sea Disputes (2023)
• All - U.S.-China Great-Power Politics and Strategic Ambiguities in Indo-Pacific Security (2023)
• ‘State of Southeast Asia 2025’: Key Highlights - MP-IDSA
• The Wrong Time for a Collective Defence Pact in Asia | RealClearDefense

2. Economic

• Deep Sea Mining Is the New Front in Pacific Competition | RealClearDefense
• Panama Drops China’s Belt and Road in Nod to U.S. Pressure (gcaptain.com)
• Why the U.S. Has a Better Hand Than China in the Great Power Game | Opinion - Newsweek
• A Forward Denial Defense: Inside the First Island Chain | Proceedings - March 2025 Vol. 151/2/1,465 (usni.org)
• Where the West Ends - by Michael Hochberg - Long Walls (substack.com)
• The Age of Economic Warfare (city-journal.org)
• All - Supply Chain Vulnerability and Taiwan Semiconductors (2023)
• ‘State of Southeast Asia 2025’: Key Highlights - MP-IDSA
• Strategic Snapshot: Global Competition in Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements - Jamestown
• The world is dangerously close to a new crisis

3. Military

3a. Military - Land

• A Discussion on the Defense Department’s 2024 China Military Power Report | CSIS Events
• The U.S. Marine Corps, China, and Force Design | RealClearDefense
• Defend Taiwan: The Reason Why | The New York Sun

3b. Military - Navy

• Inside the U.S. Battle with China over a Pacific Island Paradise (gcaptain.com)
• American Naval Policy and China - Geopolitical Futures
• The State of the South China Sea: Coercion at Sea, Slow Progress on a Code of Conduct – The Diplomat
• Defense World - American Consumer News: Asia-Pacific Navies Build Up to Counter China’s Growing Might - Military Database - ProQuest
• U.S. Starts Two Pacific Submarine Drills, Chinese Surface Group Operating Near Australia - USNI News
• Chokepoints Are The Focus Of A New Cold War (gcaptain.com)
• Does America Face a “Ship Gap” With China? | Foreign Affairs
• Chinese Carrier Shandong Drills in South China Sea While USS Carl Vinson Transits Through Malacca Strait - The Aviationist
• The Latticework: Indo-Pacific Security Moves Beyond US Naval Primacy – The Diplomat
• All - ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE IN THE FUTURE MARITIME OPERATIONS (2020)
• All - Submarine Design (2024)

3c. Military - Air

• US, Australia, Japan Boost F-35 Integration at Cope North (airandspaceforces.com)
• Drones, Missiles, and a Battle of Chinese and European Fighter Jets: Lessons on the Future of War from the Indian Subcontinent’s Skies - Modern War Institute

3d. Military - Technology

• Assessing a New Nuclear Theater Architecture for the Indo-Pacific | RealClearDefense
• China’s Secretive Build-Up Presents Trump With a Difficult Nuclear Challenge | RealClearDefense
• Nuclear Order and Disorder in the Asia-Pacific — Global Security Review
• Great Power Competition and Irregular Warfare | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• More nukes = more problems | Responsible Statecraft
• Nuclear Deterrence vs Nuclear Warfighting | RealClearDefense
• All - AI and National Security RAND_PEA3691-4
• All - Countering Small Drones (2025)
• All - Determined Nuclear Deterrence Sustains Order (2024)
• All - Fighting in the Future (2022)
• All - Missiles, Preemption, and the Risk of Nuclear War on the Korean Peninsula (2024).
• All - The Risk of Nuclear States' Signaling of Resolve (2021)
• All - The Risk of Nuclear War May Be Growing (2024)
• All - US-China Competition to Field Military Drones (2025)
• CRS Hypersonic Weapons (2025)
• How Much is a Hubcap Removal Tool Worth? Measuring The Value of Tactical Innovation - Modern War Institute (westpoint.edu)
• Space Force official: Commercial satellites can do a lot more than we thought - Ars Technica
• BOOM! LIGHTS OUT - War Room - U.S. Army War College

4. Diplomatic

• Key developments in South China Sea in 2025: Rising tensions, military activities, and territorial disputes (aninews.in)
• China’s Secretive Build-Up Presents Trump With a Difficult Nuclear Challenge | RealClearDefense
• American Naval Policy and China - Geopolitical Futures
• Can Track 2 Discussions Help Stem the Decline in U.S.-China Relations? | RAND
• How U.S.-Russia-China Ties Would Impact the Indo-Pacific | RAND
• https://geopoliticalfutures.com/a-new-asian-bloc-in-the-making/?
• Shared Threats: Indo-Pacific Alliances and Burden Sharing in Today’s Geopolitical Environment (csis.org)
• All - Competing Claims in the South China Sea (2024)
• All - South China Sea Disputes (2023)
• All - The Risk of Nuclear States' Signaling of Resolve (2021)
• All - The Security Paradox in China-U.S. Relations (2024)
• All - The Evolution of Quad and AUKUS (2024)
• All - Crossing the Straits (2022)
• ‘State of Southeast Asia 2025’: Key Highlights - MP-IDSA
• The Wrong Time for a Collective Defence Pact in Asia | RealClearDefense
• ASEAN's crumbling unity amidst global challenges

5. Strategy

• Key developments in South China Sea in 2025: Rising tensions, military activities, and territorial disputes (aninews.in)
• Inside the U.S. Battle with China over a Pacific Island Paradise (gcaptain.com) 
• If You Think Greenland is Strategic... - CDR Salamander (substack.com)
• Fortifying Operational Readiness in the Pacific: A Strategic Blueprint (army.mil)
• The State of the South China Sea: Coercion at Sea, Slow Progress on a Code of Conduct – The Diplomat
• Why the U.S. Has a Better Hand Than China in the Great Power Game | Opinion - Newsweek
• China and Taiwan: Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences | RealClearDefense
• Nuclear Order and Disorder in the Asia-Pacific — Global Security Review
• Chinese Cognitive Domain Operations as Propaganda Attacks on the US-Japan Alliance | RAND
• The Indo-Pacific: What You Need to Know Now | RAND
• The Taiwan Fixation: American Strategy Shouldn’t Hinge on an Unwinnable War (foreignaffairs.com)
• A Forward Denial Defense: Inside the First Island Chain | Proceedings - March 2025 Vol. 151/2/1,465 (usni.org)
• Strategic Insights into China-Taiwan Conflict - Military Database - ProQuest
• Explaining Strategic Theory - Military Strategy Magazine
• The U.S. Marine Corps, China, and Force Design | RealClearDefense
• What Europe Should, Could, and Would do in a Great Pacific War (substack.com)
• China Will Launch an Invasion of Taiwan In Next Few Months: Intel Sources - 19FortyFive
• Study a Forgotten War to Glimpse the Pacific Future - The National Interest
• The Latticework: Indo-Pacific Security Moves Beyond US Naval Primacy – The Diplomat
• Undoing Deterrence: The March Toward Armageddon | RealClearDefense
• All - Deter China and North Korea (2022)
• All - Determined Nuclear Deterrence Sustains Order (2024)
• All - South China Sea Disputes (2023)
• All - Strategic Insight into China-Taiwan Conflict (2024)
• All - The Risk of Nuclear States' Signaling of Resolve (2021)
• All - The Security Paradox in China-U.S. Relations (2024)
• Modern Deterrence (2022)
• All - Crossing the Straits (2022)
• All - Defend the First Island Chain (2024)
• All - Rising to the China Challenge (2020)
• All - U.S.-China Great-Power Politics and Strategic Ambiguities in Indo-Pacific Security (2023)
• From Balikatan to Taiwan: Why Firepower Beats Perfection | RealClearDefense
• Strengthening Nuclear Deterrence in the Far East — Global Security Review
• Hegseth warns Asia allies that China threat is ‘imminent’ - POLITICO
• BOOM! LIGHTS OUT - War Room - U.S. Army War College
• Avoiding Nuclear Escalation in a Conflict with China | RAND
• World War III will start with simultaneous Xi and Putin invasions taking the globe to the brink of Armageddon, warns NATO chief Mark Rutte | Daily Mail Online
• Pacific Allies Are Training to Fight China | RealClearDefense
• The Buzzsaw Facing Any Invasion of Taiwan | RealClearWorld

6. Grand Strategy

• On the Brink of Another India-Pakistan War (thecipherbrief.com)
• Ukraine Is Now a Proxy War for Asian Powers | RAND
• Speak softly and carry a big stick | Patrick Porter | The Critic Magazine
• Europe Pays the Price for Geopolitical Ignorance and Strategic Blindness (foreignpolicy.com)
• Where the West Ends - by Michael Hochberg - Long Walls (substack.com)
• A Ukraine-Model Deal in the South China Sea? | RealClearDefense
• All - Has Conflict on the Korean Peninsula become Inevitable (2024)
• All - Missiles, Preemption, and the Risk of Nuclear War on the Korean Peninsula (2024).
• All - The Asymmetry of Strategic Intelligence (2023)
• All - Aftermath of Great Power Wars
• Undersea Cable Control: The Information Dimension | RealClearDefense
• How Wars End - Geopolitical Futures 
• Bill Ackman on X: "Some have suggested that because China takes a very long-term view, China can ‘win’ a trade war with the U.S. which, according to the conventional view, is a much shorter-term player than China. The problem with this assessment is that the longer the tariffs persist, the more" / X
• Europe repositioning between US and China in new global order - Asia Times
• A New U. S. Strategy for the Indo-Pacific (2020)
• What Is Strategy in War? | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University (6)
• Neocentaur: A Model for Cognitive Evolution Across the Levels of War - Modern War Institute
• The New Cold War with China | RealClearDefense
• Eight Deadly Nuclear Sins | RealClearDefense
• Defend Taiwan: The Reason Why | The New York Sun
• Optimizing U.S. and Allied Forces for Deterrence and Defense Throughout Indo-Pacom: From Korea to Australia and Everywhere in Between | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• Ready to Defend Guam...from the South? - CDR Salamander
• A New Playbook for Irregular Warfare: How the United States Can Win Without Fighting | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
• UN Resolution 2758 Was Never About Taiwan. Beijing Just Pretends It Was | RealClearDefense
• Get Ready for the New Rules of War in the Indo-Pacific – War on the Rocks
• Adversary Entente Task Force Update, June 11, 2025 | Institute for the Study of War
• The Logic of Neutrality in the Indo-Pacific | RealClearDefense
• The Case Against a Pacific Defense Pact | RealClearDefense
• Deterrence requires discipline | Patrick Porter | The Critic Magazine
• Readiness for Pacific War 2027 | Center for International Maritime Security
• War Is With Us Forever - Chronicles

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