Chinese Money Laundering Networks: A Key Enabler of Cartel Operations
Chinese Money Laundering Networks are key enablers of cartel operations. Discover how illicit finance reframes modern irregular warfare, shifting the financial domain from a law enforcement focus into strategic military terrain essential for countering non-state adversaries.
Setting Out to Win: Why America Needs to Get Serious About Irregular Warfare
This episode explores why the United States has largely failed at irregular warfare over the past 75 years and what can be done to reverse that trend and win at irregular warfare. LTG (Ret.) Charles Cleveland and Dr. Rob Burrell are the guests.
A Global Security Advisory and Assistance Strategy for Strategic Competition: Winning Before War Through Effective Campaigning
"The true value of security assistance is not measured in weapons delivered or training events completed. It is measured in trust, relationships, access, influence, and capability."
Why Green Berets Can’t Stop Asking Who They Are
"Our concern should not be SF guys questioning who they are. Our concern should be whether anyone at Bragg and MacDill is listening."
The Essence of Irregular, Unconventional, and Political Warfare: Solving Complex Political-Military Problems and Creating Dilemmas for Adversaries
“The essence of irregular, unconventional, and political warfare is not violence. It is strategy."
IW Weekly — 07 June 2026
New look, new site. This week: naval IW, the Sahel's mercenary failures, shadow fleets, and why the drone story is really about doctrine.
Is Cognitive Warfare Dead on Arrival?
Cognitive warfare is everywhere, but it may already be doomed. It is hard to read national security literature and social media posts without coming across the term cognitive warfare. The conflict with Iran. China’s current operations. Russia’s way of war. North Korea’s nuclear strategy. Reports from NATO’
Iran, Ukraine, and the Future of Naval Warfare
Episode 156 examines what the U.S.-Iran War and Russia-Ukraine War reveal about how weaker states and irregular actors contest navies, maritime commerce, and global energy flows. Summary This conversation examines naval irregular warfare in an era of drones, shadow fleets, contested chokepoints, and attacks on commercial shipping.
Join Us at the 2026 CIWAG Maritime Symposium
The maritime domain is entering an era of gathering storms and shifting tides. Join leading practitioners, scholars, and policymakers at the 2026 CIWAG Maritime Symposium, taking place 22–24 June 2026 in Newport, Rhode Island, for discussions on some of the most pressing challenges shaping maritime security today. Topics include
The Enduring Relevance of Irregular War
For three years, I’ve watched with excitement as Dr. Kerry Chavez and Dr. Rick “Newt” Newton built and expanded IWI’s Air and Space Power Initiative into the premier forum driving the discussion of the role for air and space power in irregular warfare. It is a great honor
Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
