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.
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 ...
The speed of Ukrainian counter-messaging and will to fight has rendered Russian psychological operations in Ukraine ineffective. However, throughout the Middle East, Russia has successfully used ...
Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
Editor's note: The "Short of War" Podcast discussing this article is AI-generated. This episode highlights an important aspect: cyber offenders do not exist in a vacuum; rather, they are constantly ...
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, ...
Editor's note: The "Short of War" Podcast discussing this article is AI-generated. While global chaos mounts with lingering conflict in the Middle East, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and shifting U.S.
Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of Small Wars Journal as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on 05.20.2026 ...
The Irregular Warfare Initiative (IWI) provides a reading list curated by its leadership and editors. It features a diverse mix of fiction and nonfiction spanning irregular warfare, history, memoirs, ...
Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of Small Wars Journal as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on 04.10.2026 ...
Shortly after midnight on March 18, 2012, a U.S. drone strike hit Khanfar Mountain, near the town of Ja’ar in Yemen’s southern Abyan governorate. The strike killed 18 al-Qaeda fighters and caused no ...
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