Coffee With the Fellows | Lessons from the Post-9/11 Wars
In this debut episode of Coffee With the Fellows, we sit down with IWI Fellows John Pennell and Nicole Winget to work through a single big question: what lessons learned should the U.S. take away from wars of the GWOT/COIN era? Coffee With the Fellows is a conversation
From NATO to the Gulf: Allies, Access, and the Hidden Architecture of American Power
Description Episode 159 examines the relationship between alliances, military access, and U.S. global power projection. Summary This episode explores an often overlooked benefit of alliances: wartime access. Dr. Rachel Metz and Ambassador Douglas Lute explain why public debates about allies often focus narrowly on defense spending, while missing the
Ordinary Crime, Hybrid Threat, or Irregular Warfare?
Adversaries target PEMSII domains through coordinated hybrid campaigns, yet the UK legal system risks fragmenting this conduct into isolated offenses. This analysis shows why coherent framing is a vital strategic capability for national resilience.
250 Years After America’s First Irregular War
America turns 250 today. From 18th century irregular warfare to Alexis de Tocqueville, we pause to acknowledge IWI's roots, mission, and the civic duty that powers it.
Maritime Autonomous Systems Featuring Ukraine's SBU — Center on IW and Armed Groups 2026 Symposium
Co-director of IWI’s Maritime Program, Christopher Booth chaired a panel of guests invited by IWI as part of the Naval War College’s Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups (CIWAG) 2026 Symposium – as supported by the Naval War College Foundation - to discuss autonomous maritime vessels.
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Gulf’s Irregular Tomorrow
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 indigenous, "Arabia-First" framework to counter persistent, below-threshold irregular threats.
IWI’s Summer 2026 Reading List
The Irregular Warfare Initiative (IWI) provides a reading list curated by its leadership and editors. It features a diverse mix of fiction and nonfiction spanning irregular warfare, history, memoirs, and sci-fi, tailored for leisure reading, long travel, or upcoming academic preparation.
Protocol Insurgency: Winning the War of Conditions in the Digital Age
Modern irregular warfare is shifting from physical terrain to digital protocols. This analysis explores how adversaries leverage infrastructure to build systemic dependence, introducing Technical Foreign Internal Defense (Tech-FID) and protocol insurgency to maintain strategic advantage.
IW Weekly - 28 June 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular June 28, 2026 This Week The Iran war's aftermath dominates this week — eight items spanning nuclear deterrence limits, West Point MWI's operational takeaways, IRGC drone swarming against a downed U.S. pilot, post-Khamenei security dynamics, and competing assessments of
Geoeconomics of Irregular Warfare: Iran and the Global Ripple Effects — Part IX
In Part Nine of Irregular Warfare Initiative’s special series on the conflict with Iran, presented by the Economic & Legal Warfare Team, Hamlet Yousef (IWI Economic & Legal Warfare Advisor), Matt Flug (Co-Director, Economic & Legal Warfare Project, IWI), Tom Johansmeyer (Co-Director, Economic & Legal Warfare Project,
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