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- Category: Articles
- IWI Responds: The Israel-Hamas War
- Under the Radar: Weaponizing Maritime Transponders in Strategic Competition
- The Maritime Dimension to the Conflict in Israel
- How the Islamic State Propaganda Machine is Exploiting the Israel-Hamas Conflict
- Independence Through Information War: Chechnya’s Story and Ukraine Connection
- The Extremist Domino Effect of October 7
- An Irregular Use of Military Force: Stability Policing Operations
- American Geopolitical Strategy and the Israel-Hamas War
- The Weaponization of Language in Irregular Warfare: Moldova, a Case Study
- From Einsatzgruppen to Hamas: A Historical Continuum of Mobile Mass Murder
- Understanding Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Through the Lens of Civil War
- When a CEO Plays President: Musk, Starlink, and the War in Ukraine
- The Irregular Warfare Implications of the Israel-Hamas Conflict
- Law as Force in Hybrid Warfare
- To Coup or Not to Coup: The Cold War Hangover of US Security Assistance
- Wither Political Warfare: The Future of Gray Zone Competition
- Lessons in Maritime Insurgency from the Mukti Bahini Freedom Fighters of 1971
- Solving for the Missing Element of Maritime Campaigning
- Determining the True Extent of Terrorism’s Existential Threat
- A Backdoor Call to Arms: Foreign Fighters in National Defense
- Sneaky War: How to Win the World Without Fighting
- SOF Can Help Win the Competition for Influence in South America
- Three Proposals to Raise the Profile of Irregular Warfare (Book Review)
- How to Think about Proxy Wars in the Twenty-first Century
- For More Effective Irregular Warfare, Bring Back the MAVNI Recruitment Program
- How to Win with Data: The US SOF-Cyber Partnership Supporting Ukraine
- Rethinking Counterinsurgent Force Design and Employment
- Reaching the Tipping Point: Lessons from Combining Kinetic and Information Operations
- Power Grids and Plumbing: The Link Between Irregular Warfare and National Critical Functions
- China’s Focus on the Brain Gives it an Edge in Cognitive Warfare
- 200 Years After the Monroe Doctrine, US Influence in Latin America Is in Peril
- “The Wise Man Will Be Master of the Stars:” The Use of Twitter by the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service
- The Lessons of Afghanistan: Why Countering Someone Else’s Insurgency Is So Hard
- Snakes, Stamps, and Javelins: How Ukrainian Information and Influence Operations Brought the Fight to Russia
- Gray Hulls and Gray Zones
- We’re WEIRD and Our Adversaries Know It: Psychological Biases Leave the United States Vulnerable to Cognitive Domain Operations
- The Future of Conflict: How Super-Empowered Populations Will Change Warfare
- Divided by a Common Language: How Europe Views Irregular Warfare
- History Rhymes: Lessons from Indo-Pacific Competition and Confrontation in the Gray Zone
- Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Bodabodas: Transportation Workers and Irregular Warfare
- Local Partners Are Not Proxies: The Case for Rethinking Proxy War
- Campaigning Through (Security) Cooperation: A Roadmap for Implementing the National Defense Strategy in Lower Priority Theaters
- Putin’s Mobilization of Masculinity in the Invasion of Ukraine—and the Role of Ukrainian Women in Stopping Him
- Beyond Reapers and DJI Mavics: Are Scholars and Policymakers Ready for One-Way Attack Drones?
- Custer’s Last Tweet: Avoiding a Digital Little Bighorn in the Fight for Hearts and Minds
- Forces of Destabilization: Countering Wagner Group in the Sahel
- The Enduring Importance of Tactical Counterterrorism for Strategic Competition
- Strengthening the Medical Sphere of Influence Through Guerilla Trauma Systems and Covert Medical Intelligence Networks
- Over-the-Horizon and Under the Threshold: Bringing Unconventional Warfare to Ukraine
- Innovative Thinking on the Role of Irregular Warfare in Strategic Competition: Key Insights from the Irregular Warfare Initiative and Joint Staff J7 Office of Irregular Warfare Essay Contest
- The Lessons of 20 Years of Counterinsurgency Research
- Maritime Sabotage: Protecting Europe’s Soft Underbelly
- Unchecked and Uncooperative: How the Pentagon Has Thwarted Congressional Oversight of Security Cooperation Programs
- Weaponizing Rights: An Untapped Tool for Special Operations Forces
- A Full Spectrum of Conflict Design: How Doctrine Should Embrace Irregular Warfare
- Congress Should Mandate Human Rights Vetting For Partner Forces: The Case For Closing The Section 127E Loophole
- The Future Of Urban Warfare
- More Than “Wet Gap Crossings”: Riverine Capabilities Are Needed For Irregular Warfare And Beyond
- In The Eye Of The Beholder: Legitimacy, Drones, And US Counterterrorism Policy
- The Overlooked Irregular Warfare Expert The Pentagon Should Study Today
- An Eye For An Eye: The Dynamics of Blood Revenge In Civil War
- “By, With, And Through” Will Not Save US Forces From Direct Combat: American Ground Force Contributions To The Campaign Against ISIS
- Competition Campaigning: What It Looks Like And Implications for US Special Operations Command
- Al-Shabaab And The Grim Realities of Somalia’s Forever War
- Resist To Deter: Why Taiwan Needs To Focus On Irregular Warfare
- In The Gray Zone, This Much Is Black And White: SOF Must Develop Partner And Ally Nation Capabilities
- The Tyranny Of Color Coded Maps: What We Get Wrong About Measuring Control During Armed Conflict
- Teaching Irregular Warfare In The Era Of Strategic Competition
- Russia’s Vast Cyber Web Enables Deniability And Obscurity—But Not Without Risks
- Kin Killing: When And Why Governments Target Family Members
- Redefining Irregular Warfare: Legitimacy, Coercion, And Power
- How To Improve Your Pickup Aviation Advising Game
- Hiding In The Noise: Preparing The Irregular Warfare Community For The Age Of AI
- The Pentagon’s Reckoning With Civilian Casualties Is A Good Start—But It’s Only A Start
- On Resistance: A Primer For Further Research
- Going Viral: Preparing Ground Forces For Combat In The Information Age
- The Next Variant Of Russia’s Political Warfare Virus
- Will the Drone War Come Home? Ukraine and the Weaponization of Commercial Drones
- The End of the War on Drugs? Re-imagining the US-Columbia Relationship
- The Rise and Fall of Village Stability Operations in Afghanistan: Lessons for Future Irregular Warfare Campaigns
- Any Time Any Place? Why Cutting the Air Force’s Irregular Warfare Capabilities Is a Mistake
- The Changing Face of Insurgency
- Worthless Coin: Why the West Should Keep Studying Counterinsurgency
- The Terrible Trade-Off: Why Governments Must Choose Between More Violence or Stronger Gangs
- Who Cares About Context? The Case for Getting Serious in the Civil Environment
- What NATO’s New Strategic Concept Gets Wrong
- Time Is Not On Kyiv’s Side: Training, Weapons, And Attrition In Ukraine
- Category: Events
- How Irregular Wars End: The Role of the Military and Aftermath of the Peace Accords in Colombia (Partnered with Princeton’s ESOC and Universidad del Rosario)
- PRC Gray Zone Activities in the Western Hemisphere (Partnered with Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center)
- Terrorism & International Order (Partnered with West Point’s Combatting Terrorism Center)
- Irregular Warfare & Great Power Competition (Partnered with West Point’s Dept. of Social Sciences)
- Ukraine: What is to Come? (Partnered with Northwestern University)
- Resistance to Russian Aggression (Partnered with Harvard’s Belfer Center)
- Proxy Warfare (Partnered with Combatting Terrorism Center)
- On Resistance (Partnered with the National Defense University & the Special Warfare Center and School)
- IWI and ESOC Conference: Fireside Chat (Partnered with Princeton’s Empirical Studies of Conflict)
- What is Irregular Warfare? (Partnered with the Joint Special Operations University)
- The Competitive Landscape and Implications for Irregular Warfare (Partnered with Combatting Terrorism Center)
- Irregular Warfare in the Indo-Pacific Region
- Irregular Warfare Initiative & West Point International Affairs Forum Event Panel
- Project Gray Zone: “PRC Gray Zone in the Western Hemisphere” Panel – 09 May 2023
- “The Future of Resistance” Panel – 30 Apr 2023
- “Disentangling the Gordian Knot of Irregular Warfare” Panel – 28 March 2023
- Category: Podcasts
- IW Lessons from Gaza: Lawfare, Humanitarian Crises, and Urban Combat
- Dealers and Brokers in Proxy Wars: Exploring All Means Available
- Irregular Warfare at Sea: The Cod Wars and Sea Shepherd
- Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives
- The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hostage Diplomacy 101
- Gray Zone – Chinese Political Warfare
- Who’s Watching the Watchmen? Congressional Oversight of Irregular Warfare
- Hindsight and Foresight: A 20-Year Retrospective on IW and COIN
- The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance
- Treating or Feeding the Disease?: Elite Capture of the Security Sector
- Securing the Cyber Domain: Exploring Cyber Policy in the Department of Defense
- The Merits—And Pitfalls—Of Fighting “By, With, And Through” A Partner Force
- Gray Zone – The Alliance is the Message
- The Cyber-SOF-Space Triad and the Future of Army Special Operations
- The Digital Bear in Ukraine: Russian Cyber Operations Since 2014
- The Terrorist’s Dilemma: How Non-State Actors Manage Covert Organizations
- Deterrence through Asymmetry: Preparing for Conflict in the Taiwan Strait
- War Transformed: How Emerging Technologies Are Changing Human Conflict
- Connecting The Dots: An Inside Look At The National Defense Strategy
- Seizing The Digital Initiative: Zero Trust And Persistence In The Cyber Domain
- The Many Faces Of Al-Shabaab
- Misguided Citizens: India’s Approach to Counterinsurgency
- The Arctic Heats Up: Global Competition In The High North
- Aviation Advising: Access and Influence Through Air Power
- Transmitting Values: Can US Security Force Assistance Export Democratic Norms?
- Slow Burn: How US Security Cooperation Shapes Operational Environments
- From Street Fights To World Wars: What Gang Violence Can Teach Us About Conflict
- The Great Equalizer: Irregular Warfare In The City
- After Mali: Learning From The French Experience Of Irregular Warfare In The Sahel
- Time, Space, And Material: Metrics For Assessing Irregular Warfare
- Another Forgotten War: America’s Experience In Afghanistan
- Insurgents Rarely Win: Adaptation In The Face Of Failure
- The Bin Laden Papers: The Inner Workings of Al Qaeda’s Leadership
- Spies, Lies and Algorithms: US Intelligence in a Changing World
- Money Talks: How Nonstate Armed Groups Finance Their Operations and Intelligence
- Political Warfare and the Road to Invasion: Irregular Warfare in Ukraine Since 2014
Team
- Courtney Correia
- Nerea M. Cal
- Louis Tobergate
- Frank Struzinski
- Ryan Kertis
- Matt Kuhlman
- Vincent Dueñas
- Ania Zolyniak
- Katie Crombe
- Marie Gabenisch
- Kimberly Hidalgo Hernández
- Nick Dockery
- Amos Fox
- Mike Fazio
- Umar Ahmed Badami
- Louis Tobergte
- Alisa Laufer
- Olga R. Chiriac
- Alexandria Moffitt
- Janna Mantua, Ph.D.
- Doug Livermore
- Charles Faint
- Alex Deep
- Ben Lockey
- Eugene Lee
- Erin McFee
- Doug Livermore
- Kathleen Vogel
- David Ucko
- Alexandra Stark
- Hope Hodge Seck
- Barry Scott
- Vlad Rauta
- Brian Petit
- John Nagl
- Stanislava Mladenova
- Julia McClenon
- Jahara Matisek
- Fernando Lujan
- Peter Lorge
- Marta Kepe
- Sandor Fabian
- Amparo Pamela Fabe
- Erik Davis
- Megan Biles
- Tim Bertocci
- Paul Bailey
- Lisa McKinnon Munde
- Martijn Kitzen, PhD
- Andrew Maher
- Maggie Smith, PhD
- Ben Works
- Jeff Phaneuf
- Matt Moellering
- Julia McClenon
- Laura Jones
- Adam Darnley-Stuart
- Gordon Richmond
- Nolan Musslewhite
- Fahad Abdulrazzaq
- Augie Dominguez
- Guido Torres
- Hannah Lamb
- Dawson Stec
- Margaret Williams
- Amber Oliva
- Jacob Ware
- Sam Rosenberg
- Creed Napier
- Zachary Griffiths
- Catrina Doxsee
- Jon Bate
- Sam Winter-Levy
- Matt Sardo
- Tony Marco
- Tucker Chase
- Jennifer Walters
- Shawna Sinnott
- Kyle Atwell
- Jennifer Walters
- Maro Youssef (PhD)
- Nicholas Urbonowicz
- Tobias Switzer
- Walker Mills
- Erin McFee
- Doug Livermore
- Marius Kristiansen
- Renanah Miles Joyce (PhD)
- Ben Jebb
- Kevin Bilms
- Nufaisa Garba Ahmed (ABD)
- Scott Stalker
- David Knoll (PhD)
- Martijn Kitzen (PhD)
- Nori Katagiri (PhD)
- Barbara Elias (PhD)
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