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Irregular Warfare: U.S. Army’s IW Doctrine

Army University Press

This short film joins the Army’s ongoing effort to refresh Irregular Warfare doctrine, spotlighting the core principles that still work and proposing smart updates for today’s fight. Even as Great-Power competition dominates strategy, it underscores why mastering irregular tactics remains vital for countering peer nation-state adversaries.

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The Future of Irregular Warfare

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict joins CSIS’s Defense and Security Department President to explore how irregular warfare and the SOF enterprise are evolving. Their discussion spotlights shifting priorities and emerging technologies poised to reshape special-operations missions.

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Chinese Icebreaker Sails To the Arctic

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on Chinese Icebreaker Sails To the Arctic

Gakkel Ridge highlighted on map of main bathymetric features of the Arctic Ocean, taken mainly from Weber 1983 ‘Maps of…

People’s Liberation Army Promoting Battlefield Commander’s Initiative

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on People’s Liberation Army Promoting Battlefield Commander’s Initiative

Diagram outlining PLA Command and Control Network “Mission command advocates fully leveraging the initiative of frontline commanders in a battlefield…

Russia Plans To Add Remote Mining UAV Platoons to Engineer Units

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on Russia Plans To Add Remote Mining UAV Platoons to Engineer Units

A Soviet/Russian made POM-2 [R1] fragmentation anti-personnel mine on display. “The use of UAVs for the remote laying of anti-personnel mines…

Russian North Sea Fleet Deputy Commander Killed in Nagorno-Karabakh

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on Russian North Sea Fleet Deputy Commander Killed in Nagorno-Karabakh

Map of the 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh war showing Azerbaijan day-to-day advances as of 22 September 2023. “This was a man who…

Russia Enlists Partners To Attack U.S. Dollar To Fund War in Ukraine

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on Russia Enlists Partners To Attack U.S. Dollar To Fund War in Ukraine

Bank Saint Petersburg sanctioned by the U.S. and UK on 24 February, one of many Russian banks sanctioned in the…

Iran Promoting Medical Tourism To Generate Hard Currency

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on Iran Promoting Medical Tourism To Generate Hard Currency

View of an Iranian medical examination room in July 2023. “The quality of Iran’s medical education … has led to…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Accuses West of Ukraine War Conspiracy

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on Iran’s Supreme Leader Accuses West of Ukraine War Conspiracy

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, July 19, 2022. “The Ukrainians fight and get…

Presidential Candidate Assassination Shows New Depths of Ecuador’s Insecurity

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on Presidential Candidate Assassination Shows New Depths of Ecuador’s Insecurity

Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio. “He [Fernando Villavicencio] structured his campaign around the fight against mafias and drug trafficking. Days ago,…

As Sahelian Jihadists Expand South, Côte d’Ivoire Stands as Model of Success

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on As Sahelian Jihadists Expand South, Côte d’Ivoire Stands as Model of Success

While much of the rest of the Sahel has become engulfed in jihadist violence, Côte d’Ivoire, highlighted here, has had…

Niger Claims France and Other West African States Planning Military Intervention

By Dianne McIntosh | 11/08/2023 | Comments Off on Niger Claims France and Other West African States Planning Military Intervention

The new military junta of Niger has demanded the departure of French troops stationed in the country. It has also…