This article reflects the views of its author, a Ukrainian Member of Parliament.  Given his unique position and perspective, ...

Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

The citizens of Taiwan do not receive these facts in isolation. An older resident may see the drill through the lens of the 1995–96 Taiwan Strait Crisis. At that time, the PLA fired missiles into ...

As U.S. security guarantees in the Arabian Gulf face unprecedented strain, regional states must confront a resilient or fragmented Iran alone. This analysis outlines the strategic shift toward an ...

Irregular Warfare Initiative Nonresident fellows play a critical role in advancing the initiative’s organizational mission of bridging the gap between scholars and practitioners to support the ...

Not long ago, Iran wielded significant influence across the Middle East, extending its reach from Baghdad to Beirut and Damascus to Sanaa. Through a network of proxies, it encircled its regional ...

In the situation rooms of Washington and the chancelleries of Europe, the future of warfare is often visualized as a contest of high-velocity hardware: the silent glide of a hypersonic vehicle, the ...

“The country must turn to, and not away from, the American way of irregular war.” —Lieutenant General Charles T. Cleveland, The American Way of Irregular War (2020) Editor’s Note: This article is a ...

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 11.14.2025 ...

While the Resistance Operating Concept guides post-occupation survival, states require a practical peacetime framework to deter hybrid aggression. This article proposes an international Total Defense ...

In October 2025, Taiwan published its latest National Defense Report. This document, released every two years by the Ministry of National Defense (MND), periodically informs the people of Taiwan, ...

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 ...