Insider: Short of War
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Welcome to the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Insider: Short of War, where IWI transforms its thought provoking articles into compelling audio pieces. Our podcast bridges the gap between scholars, practitioners, and policymakers, offering in-depth analysis and expert commentary on the dynamic world of irregular warfare. Stay informed and engaged with the latest insights from leading voices in the field, right at your fingertips.
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Beyond Kinetic Dominance: “Cognitive Coherence” in Irregular Warfare
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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Defense Industrial Mobilization Needs More than Startups and Drones
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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To Disrupt Russia’s Shadow War, Follow the Money
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Sep 16, 2026 |
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Ukraine’s Drone Diplomacy: Turning Battlefield Expertise into Strategic Leverage
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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25th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks
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Sep 11, 2026 |
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Before Rogers' Rangers: Legitimacy, Partnership, and the Limits of External Sponsorship
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Mind the Gap: Asymmetric Maritime Warfare in Southeast Asian Chokepoints
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Cornered, Not Conquered: Turkish Intelligence and the End of the PKK Insurgency
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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Russian Psychological Operations and Informational Warfare in the Middle East and North Africa
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Terrorism After Ideology
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Meaning, Myth, and Force Design in U.S. Special Operations
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Aug 28, 2026 |
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A Case for Cyber Privateering
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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What Iran's Crypto Insurance Proposal Means for Irregular Warfare and Shipping in Asia
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal is Becoming More Vulnerable
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Why Iranian Propaganda Is Getting Uncomfortably Good
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Mexico’s Network War—Without a Network Strategy
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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AI in Cyber Conflict: Short-term Offensive Opportunities, Long-term Defensive Advantage
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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The Future of Conflict and Special Operations Forces
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Irregular Warfare Is Not A Thing
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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The Afghan Army: What Advisors Couldn’t See and Officers Couldn’t Change
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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What Makes a Weapon Too Horrific to Use?
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Floating Liabilities: Aircraft Carriers in the Age of Precision Strike and Irregular Warfare
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Thin Margins, Strategic Effects: Irregular Warfare and Contested Logistics in the Arctic
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Kurdish Underground Resistance and Civil Disobedience Against the Iranian Security State
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Gray Zone Contestation Between North and South Korea in the Yellow Sea
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Information Disorder and Irregular Warfare: Three Things to Know
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Gulf’s Irregular Tomorrow
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Protocol Insurgency: Winning the War of Conditions in the Digital Age
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Hidden Costs of Precision: What Drone Strikes Actually Do to Civilians
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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A Bed-ROC-k for Total Defense: Building a Practical Manual to Disrupt Hybrid Threats and Deter War
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Is Cognitive Warfare Dead on Arrival?
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Winning the Systems War: Why the Army Should Reorganize Itself for Modern Combat
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Operationally Detached: Why Decentralization, Not Consolidation, Is the Future of U.S. Army Special Forces
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May 28, 2026 |
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We’ll Go No More Enriching
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May 25, 2026 |
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A New Vision for Special Forces
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May 20, 2026 |
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The Last A-Team: Special Forces Aren't Special Anymore
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May 18, 2026 |
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From Coal to Code to Reactors: How Wyoming’s State and Local Decisions Shape Irregular Warfare
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May 14, 2026 |
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Mercenaries, Private Security, and the Civilian Cost of Outsourced Coercion
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May 12, 2026 |
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Neutrality as Vulnerability: Russia’s Hybrid Playbook in Moldova
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May 01, 2026 |
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Economic Warfare Reimagined: Insurance as a Tool of U.S. Strategic Influence
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Conflict Has Memory: Why Local Wars Follow Distinct Trajectories
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Al-Hol’s Collapse: How Syria’s Detention Crisis is Enabling Islamic State Resilience
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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The Limits of Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Consequences of Overreliance on Military Force for Political Transformation
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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How Irregular Forces Exploit Commercial Pathways for Advanced Weapons
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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The Insurance Weapon: How Commercial Risk Logic Became an Irregular Warfare Tool at Hormuz
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Friendly Cyber Fire: How Much Did NotPetya Cost Russia?
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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The Strategic Use of Drones in Pakistan–India Irregular Warfare
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Arming Kurdish Resistance Fighters in Iran with Drones
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Precision-Guided Predictions: Intelligence Risk in Prediction Markets
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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China’s Digital Yuan and the Fight for Southeast Asia’s Financial Infrastructure
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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What I Learned from Being a Planner in an Advisory Command: Reflections from the Security Assistance Group – Ukraine
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Northern Approaches: Finland, Sweden, and the Growing Opportunities for Allied Irregular Warfare
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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American Samoa is America’s Strategic Hub in the South Pacific
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Schrödinger's Security Partner: The Paradox of Measuring Security Force Assistance
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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NATO’s Latest Doctrine on Security Force Assistance: What’s New?
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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The Northern Ireland Peace Process: From Armed Conflict to Brexit, by Eamonn O’Kane
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Cognitive Warfare and the Indo-Pacific
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Q & A: Karl Marlantes on Vietnam, Leadership, and the Lessons America Still Hasn’t Learned
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Angle of Attack: Apache Attack Helicopters in Unmanned Skies
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Choke Points: Critical Minerals and Irregular Warfare in the Gray Zone
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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CFIUS: Thinking Creatively About National Security
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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The Cyber Wars that Weren't
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Russian Maritime Sabotage: From Subcomponent of Special Operations to Evolving Form of Irregular Warfare
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Japan’s Strategic Challenges: Historical Lessons and the Imperative for Comprehensive War Understanding
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Pirates or Proxies? The Uskoks of Senj and Their Lessons for Irregular Warfare
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Strategic Disruption from Orbit: Space-Based Capabilities for Irregular Warfare in the Indo-Pacific
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Gray Zone Clarity: Building Irregular Maritime Intelligence through Civilian-Linked Networks
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Chance and Necessity: Evolving the Supporting Role of SOF to Cyber Operations
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Resistance is Victory: Taiwan’s 2025 National Defense Report and Resisting Cognitive Coercion
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Sabotage as a “New Normal”
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Proxies in Hybrid Operations: Insights from the Partnership for Peace Consortium Workshop Helsinki, Finland, August 2025
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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The Pentagon Just Issued New Guidance on Irregular Warfare: What Does It Say and Why Should You Care?
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Review of “The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Foreign Legion” by Colin Freeman
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Culture on the Front Line: Building Indo-Pacific Resilience through Cultural Property Protection Training
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Media, Martyrdom, & Manipulation
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Kings, Usurpers, and Shadow Wars: Lessons on Irregular Warfare from Shakespeare
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Proxy Armies and Principal–Agent Problems: A Review of Militias in Eastern Ukraine
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Policing the Pacific: How China Expands Influence Where the US Looks for Allies
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Interwar Adaptations: Leveraging Partner Experiences for Future Conflicts
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Failure Bias in Air Advisory Missions
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Hezbollah’s Information Warfare in the Post-October 7 Era
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Israel’s Irregular Warfare Paradox: Reconciling Precision Abroad and a “Killing Field” Next Door
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Imposing Costs in the Indo-Pacific: Lessons from Operation Spider Web
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Maximizing The Indigenous Approach: Using Secondment to Enable Our Partners and Constrain Our Adversaries
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Applying the Alaska Territorial Guard Concept to Modern Indo-Pacific Irregular Warfare
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Austronesian Identity as “Networked Deterrence” in the Indo-Pacific
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Irregular Solutions for Irregular Threats: Maritime Lessons from Dutch Counterpiracy Operations in Colonial Indonesia
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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The History of U.S.-Iranian Irregular Warfare
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Preparing for the Silent Surge: Countering North Korea’s Gambit in a Dual Contingency
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Rebuilding Combat Electromagnetic Warfare for U.S. Ground Forces
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Democratized Intelligence: How Open-Source Intelligence is Reshaping Asymmetric Advantage
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Russia’s Shadow Fleet: The Dangerous Tanker Network Threatening Global Waters
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Boko Haram and Beyond: The Paradox of Local Militias in Nigeria's War on Terror
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Reclaiming U.S. Engagement in Latin America: Strategy Beyond Competition
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Space and Ice: Envisioning Special Operations Forces’ Role in Future Operational Environments
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Development or Dependence? Rethinking China’s Economic Playbook in the Americas
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Hezbollah’s Hybrid Model Under Strain: Relative Decline and the Evolving Dynamics of Irregular Warfare in Lebanon
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Exploring African Perspectives on Irregular Warfare
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Preparedness and Parallels: Lessons in Crisis Preparedness from Sweden and Latin America
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Putting Operation Spider’s Web in Context
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Jun 20, 2025 |