This article is presented in a question-and-answer format, with the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Maritime Program’s ...

Owen West’s brief remark during the 2026 AUSA Project Agincourt autonomous warfare panel deserves attention beyond the room.

Episode #167 of the Irregular Warfare Podcast grapples with the role cyberspace should play in the broader coercion toolkit. The conversation considers why cyber has remained a go-to tool for shaping ...

Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

The "Short of War" Podcast discussing this article is AI-generated. In August 2021, Afghan National Security Forces collapsed in a mere eleven days following the withdrawal of the United States ...

Just before eight o’clock on a September evening in 2021, two men opened a conversation on Telegram about how to kidnap a Russian fugitive. One, Orlin Roussev, was a Bulgarian information technology ...

U.S. military assistance often has a bad reputation, but it isn’t doomed to failure. This episode examines why assistance succeeds with some partners and falls short with others. LTG (Ret.) Charles ...

Sean M. Wiswesser is a former senior CIA operations officer with nearly three decades of experience across intelligence, foreign service, and defense. His career included multiple overseas tours, ...

The ANSF’s collapse was not a military defeat. It was the final, visible stage of an institutional failure that had been running for two decades. Following the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, ...

Russia and China do not need to defeat the 11th Airborne Division or challenge an icebreaker in open water to shape outcomes in the Arctic. The enabling systems that sustain U.S. forces operate on ...

When the Iranian security state unleashed its typical playbook of repressive policing and internet blackouts in early 2026, the Islamic Republic aimed to asphyxiate the uprising. To the contrary, IWI ...