The Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) of The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia was established within the frameworks of the creation of the RA National Defense Research University, as a research component of the future university, as well as its intellectual base and organizational axis. The project of the RA NDRU foundation has been elaborated by Major General H. Kotanjian, Professor, Chief, INSS, Doctor of Political Science, during the 2003-2004 academic fellowship at the US NDU. The INSS was founded in 2005. It is the only think tank in Armenia to perform strategic analyses in the defense-security sphere and present adequate conclusions and make recommendations to the Armenian military-political