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Gray is Here to Stay: Principles from the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance on Competing in the Gray Zone
This Irregular Warfare Initiative article was originally posted through our partner organization, the Modern War Institute at West Point. Earlier this month, the White House released its Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, the foreign policy blueprint that will inform the Biden administration’s national security strategy. Most analysis of the
Introducing the Irregular Warfare Initiative
This Irregular Warfare Initiative article was originally posted through our partner organization, the Modern War Institute at West Point. Can satire predict reality? Sometimes it definitely seems to. On May 18, 2016, the satirical Duffel Blog reported with tongue firmly in cheek that “the Pentagon’s top spokesperson said he
Flunking the New York Times Test: Making Sense of Russian “Covert” Action
This Irregular Warfare Initiative article was originally posted through our partner organization, the Modern War Institute at West Point. On October 8, 2019, the New York Times published a sensational piece on its front page, detailing the decidedly mixed operational history of Unit 29155 of Russia’s military intelligence directorate,
Nobody Puts IW In An Annex: It's Time To Embrace Irregular Warfare As A Strategic Priority
This Irregular Warfare Initiative article was originally posted through our partner organization, the Modern War Institute at West Point. Two years after the release of the National Defense Strategy, the Pentagon has issued a declassified summary of its Irregular Warfare Annex. The seven-page text details how the Department of
What are Small Wars?
This is the inaugural episode of a brand-new podcast the Modern War Institute is launching in collaboration with Princeton University’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project. It’s called the Irregular Warfare Podcast, and in this episode, Kyle Atwell and Nick Lopez discuss the question “What are Small Wars?
Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
