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 competition increasingly occurs below the threshold of armed conflict, the ability to exercise adaptive judgment will remain a decisive advantage for SOF leaders." The modern Special Operations ...

Just before eight o’clock on a September evening in 2021, two men opened a conversation on Telegram about how to kidnap a Russian fugitive. One, Orlin Roussev, was a Bulgarian information technology ...

Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. The following organizations support IWI's mission to advance the study of irregular warfare. Bridging the gap ...

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 ...

“We call on the Pakistani army and security services not to obey Pakistan’s corrupt political and military leadership and urge them to overthrow it,” al-Qaeda declared in an April appeal to Pakistan’s ...

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, ...

Russia and China do not need to defeat the 11th Airborne Division or challenge an icebreaker in open water to shape outcomes in the Arctic. The enabling systems that sustain U.S. forces operate on ...

Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Dr. Colin Jackson and Colonel (Ret.) E.J. Degen join us to discuss initial insights from the Afghanistan War Commission’s ...