All episodes
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?