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Dr Michael Raska

Assistant Professor
Coordinator of Military Transformations Programme, IDSS
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BA (Missouri Southern State College); MA (Yonsei University); PhD (LKYSPP, NUS)
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Dr Michael Raska

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BA (Missouri Southern State College); MA (Yonsei University); PhD (LKYSPP, NUS)
: [email protected]
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Biography

Dr Michael Raska is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Military Transformations Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests focus on East Asian security and defense, including theoretical and policy-oriented aspects of military innovation, force modernization, information conflicts and cyberwarfare.

He is the author of Military Innovation and Small States: Creating Reverse Asymmetry (Routledge, 2016), and co-editor of Security, Strategy and Military Change in the 21st Century Cross-Regional Perspectives (Routledge, 2015). He has published in journals such as the Strategic Studies Quarterly, Prism – Journal of Complex Operations, Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, Pointer-Journal of Singapore Armed Forces, and Asian Journal of Public Affairs.

His academic contributions also include chapters in edited volumes in cooperation with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS); Center for New American Security (CNAS); the Norwegian Institute of Defense Studies (IFS); the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the UC San Diego; the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) at the US Army War College.

His strategic assessments have been published by the Defense News, The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, Asia Times, and select newspapers worldwide. He is a commentator on East Asian security issues for the CNBC, BBC World News, Channel News Asia, and other networks.

Dr Raska has taught at the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College (SAF Campaign and War Studies Course) and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (International Security).

His research experiences include visiting fellowships at Yonsei University, Pacific Forum CSIS, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is an alumni of the Columbia / Cornell University Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS 2012), the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Workshop at Basin Harbor (2013), the Hertog Summer Study Program (2014), and the Young Strategists Forum (2017).

He holds a Ph.D.from the National University of Singapore, where he was a recipient of the President’s Graduate Fellowship.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Military Innovation: Theory, Processes, and Debate – Impact of emerging disruptive technologies and new types of armaments on military transformation and modernisation, particularly when it comes to new operational concept and new operating areas, especially in the maritime, air, and space domains;
  • Security Conceptions, Strategic Trends, and Military Modernisation in East Asia: Regional approaches to military modernisation and its implications for the medium to long-term stability of the geo-strategic environment of the Asia Pacific;
  • Information & Cyber Warfare: Cross-Domain Strategic Interactions – Implications of cyber and information warfare on international security; Long-range trends and developments when it comes to future warfare.

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Professional Activities

  • Selected to provide expert testimony at the public hearing before the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, Singapore Parliament, 2018.
  • Selected as a participant in the Young Strategists Forum (YSF) by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.
  • Selected as a participant in the Opinion Leaders Program by the Japan Ministry of Defense, Tokyo, Japan, 2015.
  • Selected as a participant in the Hertog Summer Study Program by the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, San Diego, CA, USA, 2014.
  • Selected as a participant in the Summer Workshop on the Relationship between National Security and Technology in China by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA, 2013.
  • Selected as a participant in the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies Basin Harbor Teaching Seminar, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, 2013.
  • Selected as a participant in the Summer Workshop on Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), Columbia / Cornell University, 2012.
  • Samsung Economic Research Institute, Center for Global Cooperation, Research Analyst, 2005-2006.
  • Fellow, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004
  • Pacific Forum CSIS, Young Leaders Program, 2003.
  • Fellow, Air Power Program, GSIS Yonsei University, 2003.
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RSIS Publications

    Policy Reports

    • Countering the U.S. Third Offset Strategy: Russian Perspectives, Responses and Challenges

      24 January, 2017

    • Confronting Cybersecurity Challenges: Israel's Evolving Cyber Defence Strategy

      08 January, 2015

    • The AirSea Battle Debate and the Future of Conflict in East Asia

      01 February, 2013

    Commentaries

    • Singapore Defence Technology Summit - Is the Innovation Winter Coming?

      26 June, 2019

    • The SAF After Next Incarnation

      08 March, 2019

    • CO18105 | Singapore’s Next Frontier: In Search of Defence Innovation

      25 June, 2018

    • CO18071 | Cross-Domain Coercion: Contours of East Asia’s Future Conflicts

      24 April, 2018

    • CO17205 | North Korea Threat and Asian Markets: A Paradox?

      01 November, 2017

    • CO17165 | Strategic Contours of China’s Arms Exports

      11 September, 2017

    • CO17102 | 4G SAF: Creating New Advantages

      24 May, 2017

    • CO16223 | China's Quantum Satellite Experiments: Strategic and Military Implications

      05 September, 2016

    • CO16156 | Cyber Conflicts and Singapore’s ‘Total Defence’ Strategy

      23 June, 2016

    • CO16093 | Tailored Deterrence: Influencing North Korean Decision-Making

      22 April, 2016

    • CO16032 | The Real Star Wars: Improving Satellite Defences

      11 February, 2016

    • CO15262 | Hybrid Warfare with Chinese Characteristics

      02 December, 2015

    • C015172 | Cyber-Enabled Hybrid Conflicts in East Asia

      17 August, 2015

    • CO15091 | Russia’s Concept of Hybrid Wars: Implications for Small States

      14 April, 2015

    • CO15045 | Decoding China’s Cyber Warfare Strategies

      04 March, 2015

    • CO14229 | Back to the Future: China’s Defence Industry Innovation Paths

      19 November, 2014

    • CO14192 | Building a Cyber Iron Dome: Israel’s Cyber Defensive Envelope

      02 October, 2014

    • CO14130 | Toward Stealth and Sea Denial: Submarine Modernization in East Asia

      07 July, 2014

    • CO14030 | SINGAPORE AIRSHOW: China’s Aviation Industry on the Horizon?

      13 February, 2014

    • CO14026 | SINGAPORE AIRSHOW: East Asia’s Changing Security Dynamics: The Role of Airpower

      11 February, 2014

    • CO14008 | Rethinking Asia-Europe Security Cooperation

      15 January, 2014

    • CO13163 | China's [Secret] Civil-Military Megaprojects

      02 September, 2013

    • CO13119 | Information Warfare 3.0: Weapons of Mass Effectiveness

      28 June, 2013

    • CO13101 | Australia's Evolving 'Smart Power' Strategy

      28 May, 2013

    • CO13052 | South Korea's Security Predicaments: Preparing for 'Hybrid Conflict'

      02 April, 2013

    • CO13013 | Submarine Trends in Asia Pacific: Air-Independent Propulsion A Game Changer?

      24 January, 2013

    • CO12219 | Creating Reverse Asymmetry: Patterns of IDF's Military Innovation

      05 December, 2012

    • CO12194 | China's Defence Aviation Industry: Searching for Innovation

      17 October, 2012

    • CO12158 | Decoding the Air-Sea Battle Concept: Operational Consequences and Allied Concerns

      23 August, 2012

    • CO12105 | Ascertaining China’s Strategy for the Korean Peninsula: Implications for the U.S.-ROK Alliance

      20 June, 2012

    • CO12039 | Iran’s Nuclear Conundrum: Israel’s Strategic Options

      12 March, 2012

    • CO12031 | From Copier to Innovator? China’s Ballistic Missile Modernisation

      21 February, 2012

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External Publications

Authored Books

  • Military Innovation in Small States: Creating a Reverse Asymmetry. : Routledge, 2015
  • Creating Reverse Asymmetry: Military Innovation in Small States (London: Routledge, 2015 Forthcoming).

Journal Articles

  • “North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Strategies: Continuity and Change” in SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2020, pp. 144-158
  • “Strategic Contours of China’s Arms Transfers” (with Richard Bitzinger) in Strategic Studies Quarterly, 14, 1, 2020. pp. 91-116
  • “Strategic Competition for Emerging Military Technologies: Comparative Paths and Patterns” in PRISM, 8, 3, 2020, 64-81
  • “Strategic Competition and Future Conflicts in the Indo-Pacific Region” in The Air Force Journal of Indo–Pacific Affairs , Vol. 2, No. 2, 2019, pp. 83-97
  • “Cybersecurity in Southeast Asia” (with Benjamin Ang) in Asia Centre, 2018. 1-9
  • “RMA Diffusion Paths and Patterns in South Korea’s Military Modernization,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 23, no. 3 (2011): 369-385.
  • “Five Waves of RMA Theory,” Pointer - Journal of Singapore Armed Forces 36, no.3 (2011): 1-12
  • “Beyond the Bomb in the Basement: Israel’s Nuclear Predicament & Policy Options,” The Asian Journal of Public Affairs 1, no.2 (2011):22-33.
  • “The Concept of Reverse Asymmetry: Israel’s Military Innovation,” RUSI Newsbrief 33, no.1 (2013).
  • “The Air-Sea Battle Debate and the Future of Conflict in East Asia,” RUSI Newsbrief 32, no.6 (2012).
  • “Locating China’s Place in the Global Defense Economy” (with Michael Raska, et.al.), in Forging China’s Military Might: A New Framework for Assessing Innovation (Tai Ming Cheung, ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

Edited Books / Special Issues

  • Security, Strategy and Military Change in the 21st Century: Cross-Regional Perspectives (with Jo Inge Bekkevold, and Ian Bowers), Eds. : Routledge, 2015

Chapters in Edited Books

  • “China as an Arms Exporter: The Strategic Contours of China’s Arms Transfers” (with Richard Bitzinger) in Laurence Lustgarten (Ed.), Law and the Arms Trade Weapons, Blood and Rules. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing, 2020, pp. 323-342
  • Michael Raska, "South Korea's Military-Innovation Trajectories," In: Cronin, Patrick (ed.), Breakthrough on the Peninsula: Third Offset Strategies and the Future Defense of Korea (Washington D.C.: Center for New American Security, 2016), 23-39.
  • Koh, Swee Lean, Collin; Richard A. Bitzinger; Michael Raska; Kelvin Wong Ka Weng. “Locating China’s Place in the Global Defense Economy” in Tai Ming Cheung (ed.), Forging China’s Military Might: A New Framework for Assessing Innovation, pp. 169-212. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
  • “Locating China’s Place in Global Defense Economy,” with Richard Bitzinger et. al., in Forging China’s Military Might: A New Framework for Assessing Innovation, ed. Tai Ming Cheung (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
  • “China’s Strategic Imprint on the Korean Peninsula: Crisis Scenarios and Implications for the US-ROK Alliance,” in Contending for the Asia-Pacific: New Dynamics in US-China Relations, eds. Mingjiang Li and Kalyan Kemburi (London: Routledge, 2014).
  • “Capacity for Innovation: Technological Drivers of China’s Future Military Modernization,” with Richard Bitzinger, in The PLA in the 2025, eds. Roy Kamphausen and David Lai (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2014 Forthcoming).
  • “Debating Military Innovation: Conceptual Approaches,” in Managing Military Change: Strategic Thinking, Reforms and Adaptation in a Changing Security Environment, eds. Jo Inge Bekkevold and Dahiya Rumel (Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, 2014 Forthcoming).
  • “SSK Submarine Modernization in East Asia: The Role of Air Independent Propulsion Systems,” in Emerging Critical Technologies and their Impact on Asia-Pacific Security, ed. Richard Bitzinger (London: Palgrave, 2014 Forthcoming).
  • “China’s Military Aviation Industry: In Search of Innovation,” in The Chinese Defense Economy Policy Briefs: Sector-by-Sector Assessments and the Role of Military End Users, ed. Tai Ming Cheung (San Diego: Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, 2013)

Op-Eds

  • “Could North Korea Hack Into US Elections?”, The Korea Herald, 25 September 2020
  • “North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Warfare Strategy”, East Asia Forum, 24 September 2020
  • “AI’s Impact on Military Power” (with Richard Bitzinger), The Straits Times, 25 June 2019
  • “How will SAF Look Like after its Next Incarnation?”, Today Online, 19 March 2019
  • “Singapore’s Next-Frontier Defence Innovations”, The Straits Times, 27 June 2018
  • “Cybersecurity in Southeast Asia” (with Benjamin Ang), Observatoire Asie du Sud-Est , 22 May 2018
  • “A Nimble 4G SAF Needs Space for Mavericks”, The Straits Times, 13 May 2017
  • “How China Plans to Win the Next Great Big War In Asia”, The National Interest, 9 March 2017
  • “China’s Evolving Cyber Warfare Strategies”, Asia Times, 8 March 2017
  • “Strategy for Handling North Korea Nukes: Tailored Deterrence”, Asia Times, 13 January 2017
  • “Challenges Ahead in Xi’s Bid to Reform China’s Military”, Asia Times, 11 January 2017
  • “Rethinking Trump’s Policy Options for North Korea” (with Jana Hajzlerova), Asia Times, 21 December 2016
  • “Where Quantum Satellites Fit in PLA Strategy”, The Lowy Interpreter, 8 September 2016
  • “PLA Reforms: Toward Winning ‘Informationised Local Wars’”, The Lowy Interpreter, 3 February 2016
  • “China and the ‘Three Warfares’”, The Diplomat, 18 December 2015
  • “Revealed: The New Battleground in China’s Future Wars”, The National Interest, 10 March 2015
  • “Submarine Modernization in East Asia”, The Diplomat, 14 July 2014
  • “Strategic Rivalries Escalate in East Asia”, The Korea Herald, 28 April 2014
  • “The Ambiguous “China Threat””, Project Syndicate, 24 November 2012
  • “China on the Launch Pad”, Project Syndicate, 6 June 2012
  • “Transforming South Korea’s Defence Capabilities”, East Asia Forum, 28 May 2012
  • “What is China’s Strategy for North Korea?” Aljazeera, May 15, 2014.
  • “Singapore’s Smart Army,” East Asia Forum, March 1, 2014.
  • “East Asia’s Changing Security Dynamics and the Role of Airpower,” Defense News, February 3, 2014.
  • “Time to Rethink Asia-Europe Security Cooperation?” The Korea Herald, January 19, 2014.
  • “Scientific Innovation and Chinese Military Modernization,” The Diplomat, September 3, 2013.
  • “Australia's Evolving 'Smart Power' Strategy,” The Jakarta Post, June 7, 2013.
  • “Information Warfare on the Korean Peninsula,” ASPI Strategist, March 13, 2013.
  • “Integrating Information Warfare into U.S.-ROK Defense Strategy,” The Korea Herald, March 4, 2013.
  • “China’s Defense Aviation Industry: Toward Stealth Innovation?” with Alanna Krolikowski, East Asia Forum, March 11, 2013.
  • “South Korea’s Changing Security Paradigm,” Project Syndicate, February 10, 2013.
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Teaching Modules

  • S6038 – Conflicts in the Digital Age: Information and Cyberwarfare

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