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What's Cyber Good For?

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The Airpower We Need for Irregular Warfare

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War at Arm’s Length: Can Military Assistance Work?

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Hidden Costs of Precision

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The Future of War Part IV: Special Operations on a Global Battlefield

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From Subversion to Resistance: Lessons from Russia’s War in Ukraine

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Five Years After the Withdrawal: Insights from the Afghanistan War Commission

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Innovation Under Fire: What WWII’s Commandos Teach Us About War and the Future of Special Operations

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From NATO to the Gulf: Allies, Access, and the Hidden Architecture of American Power

10

The Wars Nuclear Weapons Don't Prevent

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Setting Out to Win: Why America Needs to Get Serious About Irregular Warfare

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Iran, Ukraine, and the Future of Naval Warfare

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Hellscape Taiwan: Drones, Deterrence, and the Future of Asymmetric Defense

14

The Counterinsurgency Dilemma: Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia

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Where the Lion Can’t Reach: Unconventional Warfare in Major War

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What the Hell is Irregular Warfare Anyway?

17

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

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From Orbit to Objective: Space and the Future of Conflict

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Iran, Revolution, and the Logic of Proxy Warfare

20

The Strategic Logic of Large Militant Alliance Networks

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Preserving the American Edge: Revitalizing the Defense Industrial Base

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Competitive Intervention, Proxy War, and Military Assistance: Anderson, Eyre, and Kuhlman

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Foreign Fighters in Ukraine and Beyond

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The Future of War Part III: Strategic Sabotage in an Era of Great-Power

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Ukraine's Hidden Front: The Strategic Impact of Resistance Operations

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What Determines Success in Guerrilla Warfare?

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Codifying Irregular Warfare—Inside the Pentagon’s new DoD Instruction 3000.07

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Is Resistance Working in Ukraine?

29

South America in Competition Conference: Bonus Episode 2

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Unrestricted Innovation: The Supply Chain Battlefield

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South America in Competition Conference: Bonus Episode 1

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Future of War Part II: On Their Own

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Insurgent Armies and State Formation after Victory

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Future of War Part I: Raiders at the Edge of Tomorrow

35

The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

36

Winning Without Fighting: Economic Power and Information Warfare (Part 2)

37

Winning Without Fighting: Strategic Culture and Gray Zone Competition (Part 1)

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Winning Without Fighting: Strategic Culture and Gray Zone Competition (Part 1)

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Security Hybridization: U.S., China, and the Future of Global Security Assistance

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Operation Spider’s Web and the Future of Asymmetric Warfare

41

Agile, Adaptable, AFSOC: Building Edge in Contested Skies

42

Five Years of IWI: From Podcast to Platform

43

The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War

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Plausible Deniability: Proxy Actors and the Hybrid Threat Ecosystem

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Ukraine's Hidden Front: The Strategic Impact of Resistance Operations

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The Fourth Age: The SOCOM Commander's Vision for the Future

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Training for Victory: Lessons for Security Force Assistance

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Theory vs. Practice: What is Irregular War?

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Below the Threshold: China's Strategy of Armed Coercion

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Culture, Access, Influence: The FAO Advantage in Irregular Warfare

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Sneaky Wars in the Indo-Pacific

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SOF’s Role in Conflict

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Adapting to the Unpredictable: Climate’s Impact on Irregular Warfare

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SOF and Influence Activities

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The Stability Instability Paradox: How Nuclear Weapons Incentivize Irregular Warfare

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DIU: Silicon Valley Meets the Modern Battlefield

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Afghanistan Three Years Later: Alliances and Rivalries

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SOF in Competition - Special Project

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Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 2: Arguments Against a Seventh Service

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Illicit Financing of Violence in Sudan

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Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 1: Arguments for a Seventh Service

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Drones are Here to Stay: The Proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Systems Across the Spectrum of War

63

Paramilitaries Abroad: China’s Use of Nontraditional Security Forces

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Drones, Automation, and how ARSOF is Adapting

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Lessons from the Eastern Front: Security Force Assistance in Ukraine

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Insiders, Outsiders and Enablers: Intelligence Support to Irregular Warfare

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Cold War Lessons for a New Era: Connecting IW and Great Power Competition

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Strategic Disruption by Special Operations Forces

69

Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants

70

Secret Wars: Covert Action and Irregular Warfare

71

The Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space

72

Stay Behind Operations

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Armed Politics

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Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949

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The Defense of Europe: The Trans-Atlantic Relationship after Two Years of War

76

Fighting for Survival: Israel’s Counterterrorism Strategy

77

IW Lessons from Gaza: Lawfare, Humanitarian Crises, and Urban Combat

78

Dealers and Brokers in Proxy Wars: Exploring All Means Available

79

Taking the Long View on Hamas

80

Irregular Warfare at Sea: The Cod Wars and Sea Shepherd

81

Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives

82

The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hostage Diplomacy 101

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Gray Zone: China’s Political Warfare

84

Inside the US-China Tech War

85

Who’s Watching the Watchmen? Congressional Oversight of Irregular Warfare

86

Hindsight and Foresight: A Twenty-Year Retrospective on Irregular Warfare and Counterinsurgency

87

The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance

88

Treating or Feeding the Disease? Elite Capture of the Security Sector

89

Proxy Warfare, Theory and Practice

90

Securing the Cyber Domain: Exploring Cyber Policy in the Department of Defense

91

Operation Inherent Resolve: The Merits—and Pitfalls—of Fighting “By, With, and Through” a Partner Force

92

Gray Zone—The Alliance is the Message

93

The Cyber-SOF-Space Triad and the Future of Army Special Operations

94

The Digital Bear in Ukraine: Russian Cyber Operations Since 2014

95

The Terrorist’s Dilemma: How Nonstate Actors Manage Covert Organizations

96

Deterrence through Asymmetry: Preparing for Conflict in the Taiwan Strait

97

War Transformed: How Emerging Technologies are Changing Human Conflict

98

Connecting the Dots: An Inside Look at the National Defense Strategy

99

Seizing the Digital Initiative: Zero Trust and Persistence in the Cyber Domain

100

The Many Faces of Al-Shabaab