Resilience and Resistance Post-Raisi: A Data-Centric Approach to Iran
The sudden death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on May 19, 2024, may provide an opportunity to usher in a new destiny for the Iranian people. Many considered the hard-liner to be the Supreme Leader Khamenei’s enforcer in consolidating the clerics’ power through the executions
A Guide for Measuring Resiliency
A portion of this article was previously published in Small Wars and Insurgencies journal. The question of state resiliency remains essential to the three biggest U.S. foreign policy questions of today. Why did Afghanistan fall so rapidly to the Taliban in 2021? Why, in contrast, has Ukraine stood firm
A Full Spectrum of Conflict Design: How Doctrine Should Embrace Irregular Warfare
China’s gray zone conflict. Russian hybrid warfare. These terms have emerged to describe belligerent activities that standard US military operations struggle to address. Although these adversarial approaches remain central to today’s security environment, they are absent from the current joint doctrinal framework. Even the new joint doctrine note
Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
