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Irregular Warfare Podcast — 165 episodes
The Future of War Part IV: Special Operations on a Global Battlefield
From Subversion to Resistance: Lessons from Russia’s War in Ukraine
Five Years After the Withdrawal: Insights from the Afghanistan War Commission
Innovation Under Fire: What WWII’s Commandos Teach Us About War and the Future of Special Operations
From NATO to the Gulf: Allies, Access, and the Hidden Architecture of American Power
The Wars Nuclear Weapons Don't Prevent
Setting Out to Win: Why America Needs to Get Serious About Irregular Warfare
Iran, Ukraine, and the Future of Naval Warfare
Hellscape Taiwan: Drones, Deterrence, and the Future of Asymmetric Defense
The Counterinsurgency Dilemma: Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia
Where the Lion Can’t Reach: Unconventional Warfare in Major War
What the Hell is Irregular Warfare Anyway?
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
From Orbit to Objective: Space and the Future of Conflict
Iran, Revolution, and the Logic of Proxy Warfare
The Strategic Logic of Large Militant Alliance Networks
Preserving the American Edge: Revitalizing the Defense Industrial Base
Competitive Intervention, Proxy War, and Military Assistance: Anderson, Eyre, and Kuhlman
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine and Beyond
The Future of War Part III: Strategic Sabotage in an Era of Great-Power
Ukraine's Hidden Front: The Strategic Impact of Resistance Operations
What Determines Success in Guerrilla Warfare?
Codifying Irregular Warfare—Inside the Pentagon’s new DoD Instruction 3000.07
Is Resistance Working in Ukraine?
South America in Competition Conference: Bonus Episode 2
Unrestricted Innovation: The Supply Chain Battlefield
South America in Competition Conference: Bonus Episode 1
Future of War Part II: On Their Own
Insurgent Armies and State Formation after Victory
Future of War Part I: Raiders at the Edge of Tomorrow
The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
Winning Without Fighting: Economic Power and Information Warfare (Part 2)
Winning Without Fighting: Strategic Culture and Gray Zone Competition (Part 1)
Winning Without Fighting: Strategic Culture and Gray Zone Competition (Part 1)
Security Hybridization: U.S., China, and the Future of Global Security Assistance
Operation Spider’s Web and the Future of Asymmetric Warfare
Agile, Adaptable, AFSOC: Building Edge in Contested Skies
Five Years of IWI: From Podcast to Platform
The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War
Plausible Deniability: Proxy Actors and the Hybrid Threat Ecosystem
Ukraine's Hidden Front: The Strategic Impact of Resistance Operations
The Fourth Age: The SOCOM Commander's Vision for the Future
Training for Victory: Lessons for Security Force Assistance
Theory vs. Practice: What is Irregular War?
Below the Threshold: China's Strategy of Armed Coercion
Culture, Access, Influence: The FAO Advantage in Irregular Warfare
Sneaky Wars in the Indo-Pacific
SOF’s Role in Conflict
Adapting to the Unpredictable: Climate’s Impact on Irregular Warfare
SOF and Influence Activities
The Stability Instability Paradox: How Nuclear Weapons Incentivize Irregular Warfare
DIU: Silicon Valley Meets the Modern Battlefield
Afghanistan Three Years Later: Alliances and Rivalries
SOF in Competition - Special Project
Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 2: Arguments Against a Seventh Service
Illicit Financing of Violence in Sudan
Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 1: Arguments for a Seventh Service
Drones are Here to Stay: The Proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Systems Across the Spectrum of War
Paramilitaries Abroad: China’s Use of Nontraditional Security Forces
Drones, Automation, and how ARSOF is Adapting
Lessons from the Eastern Front: Security Force Assistance in Ukraine
Insiders, Outsiders and Enablers: Intelligence Support to Irregular Warfare
Cold War Lessons for a New Era: Connecting IW and Great Power Competition
Strategic Disruption by Special Operations Forces
Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants
Secret Wars: Covert Action and Irregular Warfare
The Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space
Stay Behind Operations
Armed Politics
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949
The Defense of Europe: The Trans-Atlantic Relationship after Two Years of War
Fighting for Survival: Israel’s Counterterrorism Strategy
IW Lessons from Gaza: Lawfare, Humanitarian Crises, and Urban Combat
Dealers and Brokers in Proxy Wars: Exploring All Means Available
Taking the Long View on Hamas
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: China’s Political Warfare
Inside the US-China Tech War
Who’s Watching the Watchmen? Congressional Oversight of Irregular Warfare
Hindsight and Foresight: A Twenty-Year Retrospective on Irregular Warfare and Counterinsurgency
The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance
Treating or Feeding the Disease? Elite Capture of the Security Sector
Proxy Warfare, Theory and Practice
Securing the Cyber Domain: Exploring Cyber Policy in the Department of Defense
Operation Inherent Resolve: 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 Nonstate 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 Airpower
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 Organizations
Political Warfare and the Road to Invasion: Irregular Warfare in Ukraine since 2014
From Little Green Men to Tanks Outside Kyiv: Irregular Warfare in Ukraine since 2014
Plan Colombia: Anatomy of a Successful Counterinsurgency Campaign
Digital Irregular Warfare: Cyber at the Tactical Level
Little Blue Men in the South China Sea: Unmasking China’s Maritime Militia
Digital Terrorists: Policy and Practice in the Online Counterterrorism Fight
Dynamite to Drones: The Diffusion of Lethal Technology to Terrorists and Insurgents
COIN and Culture: How Important is Cultural Intelligence in Counterinsurgency?
The Motivations and Methods Behind Russian Hybrid Warfare
Russia, China, and Iran: The Face of Competition in the Middle East
The Kill Chain: Why America Faces the Prospect of Defeat
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Enduring Lessons of Security Force Assistance
Anytime, Anyplace: Air Force Special Operations Command in Future Irregular Warfare
Two Sides of the COIN: Good Governance vs. Compellence
The Future of Coalition Building and Irregular Warfare
Learning from the Past, Anticipating the Future: Organizational Change in Irregular Warfare
Cyberspace as a Battlespace: Irregular Warfare through Bits and Bytes
Special Operations Forces and Great Power Competition
What Have We Learned from Twenty Years of War?
On the Road to Jihad: The Role of Foreign Fighters in Irregular Warfare
Information Operations for the Information Age: IO in Irregular Warfare
Lessons from the Hardest Place: Twenty Years of War in Afghanistan
China’s Strategically Irregular Approach: The Art of the Gray Zone
An Un-American Way of War: Why the United States Fails at Irregular Warfare
Land Forces, Irregular Warfare, and a New Strategic Landscape
Closing the Chapter: Ending Afghanistan for US Army Special Forces
Back to the Future: Resetting Special Operations Forces for Great Power Competition
American Decline: Losing the Campaign for Influence
How a Group of Women Brought the Fight to the Islamic State
Irregular Warfare in the Next World War
The Harsh Lessons of Anbar: Insurgency, the Awakening, and the rise of ISIS
From SAR to GFA: The ABCs of Conflict Prevention and Stabilization
Airpower in Irregular Warfare
Masters of Irregular Warfare—Past, Present, and Future
The View from Washington: Civilian Oversight of SOF
War Entrepreneurs: Economic Drivers of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime
Pacific Gambit: The Role of Irregular Warfare in Australia’s Great Strategic Shift
Institution Building as a Counterinsurgency Tool: The Case of Colombia
Competing for Influence: Operations in the Information Environment
Artificial Intelligence in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency
Breaking the Boom-Bust Cycle of Irregular Warfare
Russia’s Wagner Group and the Rise of Mercenary Warfare
The Practice and Politics of Security Force Assistance
David Petraeus on Irregular Warfare and Countering Violent Extremism
The Costs and Benefits of Unconventional Warfare and Subversion
Counterinsurgency in the Philippines: An Inside Look at Partner Warfare
The Pentagon Bureaucracy and the Human Domain of War
Are Some Militaries Better at Counterinsurgency than Others?
The Future of Irregular Warfare
Proxy Wars, Part 2: Opportunity and Risk in the Middle East
Proxy Wars, Part 1: War Through Local Agents in Africa
Inside Insurgency: Nonstate Armed Groups in Syria and Iraq
Irregular Warfare Oversight in DC
Does Building Partner Military Capacity Work?
Leadership Targeting and Drones: An Effective Counterterrorism Strategy?