Strategy and Deterrence Program

Joint Strategic Simulation Conducted by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Collaboration with the Indo-Pacific Institute for Security Studies and the Prospect Foundation

Strategy and Deterrence Program

November 19, 2025

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On November 6 and 7, 2025, the Strategy and Deterrence Program of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation conducted a strategic simulation in Taipei, co-hosting with the Indo-Pacific Institute for Security Studies and the Prospect Foundation. SPF participants included Executive Director Nobukatsu Kanehara, former Deputy Secretary-General of the National Security Secretariat and Senior Fellow/ADM (ret. JMSDF) Tomohisa Takei, and former Chief of Maritime Staff and Senior Fellow/GEN (ret. JGSDF) Koji Yamazaki. Following the conclusion of the simulation, the delegation visited the Presidential Office, where they exchanged views with Dr. Joseph Wu, Secretary-General of the National Security Council, and paid a courtesy call on President Lai Ching-te.

The NATO alliance is adapting to operate effectively in a complex, contested and unpredictable security environment characterized by strategic competition, persistent contestation across the peace-crisis-conflict continuum and pervasive instability. To ensure the security and defense of Allies, NATO needs to be able to credibly tackle multiple, global and interconnected threats and challenges and to account for the impact that conflict, crises and instability in other regions of the world could have on the Euro-Atlantic, its area of responsibility.

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IINA: 【Cooperation between European and Indo-Pacific Powers in the U.S. alliance system project: Policy Paper Vol. 8】 Cooperation by Design: The Implication of Maritime Connectivity for NATO and the Indo-Pacific Partnership

This paper argues that the partnership between NATO and Japan shifted from cooperation by chance to cooperation by design after 2001, when Japan suddenly expanded its cooperation with NATO due to common challenges in Afghanistan. The September 11 terrorist attacks dramatically changed the strategic landscape and transformed Japan’s position as the lead country of a pacifist foreign policy of demobilization, demilitarization, reintegration, and post-conflict reconstruction. One way to describe this partnership between NATO and Japan is cooperation by chance.

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