Irregular Warfare Podcast

By Irregular Warfare Initiative

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nathan
 Jan 21, 2024
the quality of speakers and depth of discussion is 5*


 Apr 23, 2021

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The Irregular Warfare Podcast explores an important component of war throughout history. Small wars, drone strikes, special operations forces, counterterrorism, proxies—this podcast covers the full range of topics related to irregular war and features in-depth conversations with guests from the military, academia, and the policy community. The podcast is a collaboration between the Modern War Institute at West Point and Princeton University’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project.

Episode Date
Sneaky Wars in the Indo-Pacific
Nov 29, 2024
SOF’s Role in Conflict
Nov 15, 2024
Adapting to the Unpredictable: Climate’s Impact on Irregular Warfare
Oct 31, 2024
SOF and Influence Activities
Oct 18, 2024
The Stability Instability Paradox: How Nuclear Weapons Incentivize Irregular Warfare
Oct 04, 2024
DIU: Silicon Valley Meets the Modern Battlefield
Sep 20, 2024
Afghanistan Three Years Later: Alliances and Rivalries
Sep 06, 2024
SOF in Competition - Special Project
Aug 23, 2024
Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 2: Arguments Against a Seventh Service
Aug 09, 2024
Illicit Financing of Violence in Sudan
Jul 26, 2024
Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 1: Arguments for a Seventh Service
Jul 12, 2024
Drones are Here to Stay: The Proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Systems Across the Spectrum of War
Jun 28, 2024
Paramilitaries Abroad: China’s Use of Nontraditional Security Forces
Jun 14, 2024
Drones, Automation, and how ARSOF is Adapting
May 31, 2024
Lessons from the Eastern Front: Security Force Assistance in Ukraine
May 17, 2024
Insiders, Outsiders and Enablers: Intelligence Support to Irregular Warfare
May 03, 2024
Cold War Lessons for a New Era: Connecting IW and Great Power Competition
Apr 19, 2024
Strategic Disruption by Special Operations Forces
Apr 05, 2024
Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants
Mar 22, 2024
Secret Wars: Covert Action and Irregular Warfare
Mar 08, 2024
The Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space
Feb 23, 2024
Stay Behind Operations
Feb 09, 2024
Armed Politics
Jan 26, 2024
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949
Dec 29, 2023
The Defense of Europe: The Trans-Atlantic Relationship after Two Years of War
Dec 15, 2023
Fighting for Survival: Israel’s Counterterrorism Strategy
Dec 12, 2023
IW Lessons from Gaza: Lawfare, Humanitarian Crises, and Urban Combat
Dec 01, 2023
Dealers and Brokers in Proxy Wars: Exploring All Means Available
Nov 17, 2023
Taking the Long View on Hamas
Nov 14, 2023
Irregular Warfare at Sea: The Cod Wars and Sea Shepherd
Nov 03, 2023
Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives
Oct 20, 2023
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hostage Diplomacy 101
Oct 05, 2023
Gray Zone: China’s Political Warfare
Sep 21, 2023
Inside the US-China Tech War
Sep 08, 2023
Who’s Watching the Watchmen? Congressional Oversight of Irregular Warfare
Aug 25, 2023
Hindsight and Foresight: A Twenty-Year Retrospective on Irregular Warfare and Counterinsurgency
Aug 11, 2023
The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance
Jul 28, 2023
Treating or Feeding the Disease? Elite Capture of the Security Sector
Jul 14, 2023
Proxy Warfare, Theory and Practice
Jun 30, 2023
Securing the Cyber Domain: Exploring Cyber Policy in the Department of Defense
Jun 16, 2023
Operation Inherent Resolve: The Merits—and Pitfalls—of Fighting “By, With, and Through” a Partner Force
Jun 02, 2023
Gray Zone—The Alliance is the Message
May 19, 2023
The Cyber-SOF-Space Triad and the Future of Army Special Operations
May 02, 2023
The Digital Bear in Ukraine: Russian Cyber Operations Since 2014
Apr 20, 2023
The Terrorist’s Dilemma: How Nonstate Actors Manage Covert Organizations
Apr 07, 2023
Deterrence through Asymmetry: Preparing for Conflict in the Taiwan Strait
Mar 24, 2023
War Transformed: How Emerging Technologies are Changing Human Conflict
Mar 10, 2023
Connecting the Dots: An Inside Look at the National Defense Strategy
Feb 24, 2023
Seizing the Digital Initiative: Zero Trust and Persistence in the Cyber Domain
Feb 10, 2023
The Many Faces of Al-Shabaab
Jan 27, 2023
Misguided Citizens: India’s Approach to Counterinsurgency
Jan 13, 2023
The Arctic Heats Up: Global Competition in the High North
Dec 30, 2022
Aviation Advising: Access and Influence through Airpower
Dec 16, 2022
Transmitting Values: Can US Security Force Assistance Export Democratic Norms?
Dec 02, 2022
Slow Burn: How US Security Cooperation Shapes Operational Environments
Nov 18, 2022
From Street Fights to World Wars: What Gang Violence Can Teach Us about Conflict
Nov 04, 2022
The Great Equalizer: Irregular Warfare in the City
Oct 21, 2022
After Mali: Learning from the French Experience of Irregular Warfare in the Sahel
Oct 07, 2022
Time, Space, and Material: Metrics for Assessing Irregular Warfare
Sep 24, 2022
Another Forgotten War: America’s Experience in Afghanistan
Sep 12, 2022
Insurgents Rarely Win: Adaptation in the Face of Failure
Aug 26, 2022
The Bin Laden Papers: The Inner Workings of Al-Qaeda’s Leadership
Aug 12, 2022
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: US Intelligence in a Changing World
Jul 29, 2022
Money Talks: How Nonstate Armed Groups Finance their Operations and Organizations
Jul 15, 2022
Political Warfare and the Road to Invasion: Irregular Warfare in Ukraine since 2014
Jul 01, 2022
From Little Green Men to Tanks Outside Kyiv: Irregular Warfare in Ukraine since 2014
Jun 17, 2022
Plan Colombia: Anatomy of a Successful Counterinsurgency Campaign
Jun 03, 2022
Digital Irregular Warfare: Cyber at the Tactical Level
May 20, 2022
Little Blue Men in the South China Sea: Unmasking China’s Maritime Militia
May 06, 2022
Digital Terrorists: Policy and Practice in the Online Counterterrorism Fight
Apr 22, 2022
Dynamite to Drones: The Diffusion of Lethal Technology to Terrorists and Insurgents
Apr 08, 2022
COIN and Culture: How Important is Cultural Intelligence in Counterinsurgency?
Mar 25, 2022
The Motivations and Methods Behind Russian Hybrid Warfare
Mar 11, 2022
Russia, China, and Iran: The Face of Competition in the Middle East
Feb 25, 2022
The Kill Chain: Why America Faces the Prospect of Defeat
Feb 12, 2022
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Enduring Lessons of Security Force Assistance
Jan 28, 2022
Anytime, Anyplace: Air Force Special Operations Command in Future Irregular Warfare
Jan 14, 2022
Two Sides of the COIN: Good Governance vs. Compellence
Jan 01, 2022
The Future of Coalition Building and Irregular Warfare
Dec 17, 2021
Learning from the Past, Anticipating the Future: Organizational Change in Irregular Warfare
Dec 03, 2021
Cyberspace as a Battlespace: Irregular Warfare through Bits and Bytes
Nov 19, 2021
Special Operations Forces and Great Power Competition
Nov 05, 2021
What Have We Learned from Twenty Years of War?
Oct 22, 2021
On the Road to Jihad: The Role of Foreign Fighters in Irregular Warfare
Oct 18, 2021
Information Operations for the Information Age: IO in Irregular Warfare
Sep 24, 2021
Lessons from the Hardest Place: Twenty Years of War in Afghanistan
Sep 13, 2021
China’s Strategically Irregular Approach: The Art of the Gray Zone
Aug 27, 2021
An Un-American Way of War: Why the United States Fails at Irregular Warfare
Aug 23, 2021
Land Forces, Irregular Warfare, and a New Strategic Landscape
Jul 30, 2021
Closing the Chapter: Ending Afghanistan for US Army Special Forces
Jul 16, 2021
Back to the Future: Resetting Special Operations Forces for Great Power Competition
Jul 02, 2021
American Decline: Losing the Campaign for Influence
Jun 18, 2021
How a Group of Women Brought the Fight to the Islamic State
Jun 04, 2021
Irregular Warfare in the Next World War
May 24, 2021
The Harsh Lessons of Anbar: Insurgency, the Awakening, and the rise of ISIS
May 07, 2021
From SAR to GFA: The ABCs of Conflict Prevention and Stabilization
Apr 23, 2021
Airpower in Irregular Warfare
Apr 10, 2021
Masters of Irregular Warfare—Past, Present, and Future
Mar 26, 2021
The View from Washington: Civilian Oversight of SOF
Mar 12, 2021
War Entrepreneurs: Economic Drivers of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime
Feb 26, 2021
Pacific Gambit: The Role of Irregular Warfare in Australia’s Great Strategic Shift
Feb 12, 2021
Institution Building as a Counterinsurgency Tool: The Case of Colombia
Jan 29, 2021
Competing for Influence: Operations in the Information Environment
Jan 16, 2021
Artificial Intelligence in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency
Jan 01, 2021
Breaking the Boom-Bust Cycle of Irregular Warfare
Dec 18, 2020
Russia’s Wagner Group and the Rise of Mercenary Warfare
Dec 04, 2020
The Practice and Politics of Security Force Assistance
Nov 20, 2020
David Petraeus on Irregular Warfare and Countering Violent Extremism
Nov 06, 2020
The Costs and Benefits of Unconventional Warfare and Subversion
Oct 23, 2020
Counterinsurgency in the Philippines: An Inside Look at Partner Warfare
Oct 09, 2020
The Pentagon Bureaucracy and the Human Domain of War
Sep 25, 2020
Are Some Militaries Better at Counterinsurgency than Others?
Sep 14, 2020
The Future of Irregular Warfare
Aug 28, 2020
Proxy Wars, Part 2: Opportunity and Risk in the Middle East
Aug 14, 2020
Proxy Wars, Part 1: War Through Local Agents in Africa
Jul 31, 2020
Inside Insurgency: Nonstate Armed Groups in Syria and Iraq
Jul 17, 2020
Irregular Warfare Oversight in DC
Jul 03, 2020
Does Building Partner Military Capacity Work?
Jun 19, 2020
Leadership Targeting and Drones: An Effective Counterterrorism Strategy?
Jun 09, 2020
What are Small Wars?
May 21, 2020