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Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.
In this issue:
· Following US and Israeli airstrikes, Mark Fitzpatrick assesses Iran's residual nuclear capabilities, its freshly intensified resentment and its perceived need to defensively arm itself
· Anna M. Gielas argues that humans must be kept actively engaged in artificial-intelligence interfaces used in autonomous warfare to preserve human discretion and cognitive readiness to intervene
· Ramon Pacheco Pardo judges that Yoon Suk-yeol's December 2024 declaration of martial law ultimately served to underscore the resilience of South Korean democracy
· Dana H. Allin and Jonathan Stevenson examine the windows of opportunity that precipitated Israel's strikes on Iran: Israel's current strategic superiority and a US president disinclined to prevent Israeli action
· And nine other thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column.
To read free articles from the journal, please visit its homepage at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsur20.
Editor: Dr Dana Allin
Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson
Associate Editor: Carolyn West
Editorial Assistant: Anna Gallagher
Contents
Survival 67.4 (August-September 2025), pp. 1-196
Attacking Iran and Tempting Fate, by Mark Fitzpatrick
Israel's Perilous Revisionism, by Hasan T. Alhasan and Wolf-Christian Paes
Iran's Shattered Missile Strategy, by Fabian Hinz
The Pentagon's Economic Blind Spot, by Philip M. Breedlove and Peter Devine
Noteworthy: The Shangri-La Dialogue
The Loop Is Broken: Why Autonomous-warfare Policy Must Reckon with Human Performance, by Anna M. Gielas
Offensive Cyber Attacks and Conventional Warfare, by Matthew F. Calabria
Thinker, Lawyer, Soldier, Spy: The Makers of Xi Jinping's Grand Strategy, by Nadège Rolland
South Korea's Resilient Democracy, by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Supply Chains and Southeast Asia: The Sino-American Shadow, by Amos Yeo
America's 'Ungoverning' in Global Context, by Jodi Vittori
A 'Reverse Kissinger'? Why Trump's Anti-China Rapprochement with Russia Is Likely to Fail, by Geraint Hughes and Zeno Leoni
Angela Merkel: A Status Quo Leader in a Revisionist Era, by Hanns W. Maull
Book Reviews
Russia and Eurasia, by Angela Stent
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies, by Melissa K. Griffith
Asia-Pacific, by Lanxin Xiang
Predicates and Consequences of the Attack on Iran, by Dana H. Allin and Jonathan Stevenson
