Robert Redding

Pirates or Proxies? The Uskoks of Senj and Their Lessons for Irregular Warfare

The Uskoks were Christian refugees who transformed into maritime raiders operating on behalf of the Habsburg Empire, though often only loosely controlled by it. While they certainly were pirates in the classic sense, they were also strategic actors in an early modern proxy conflict between the Habsburgs and the Ottoman

Art and Irregular Warfare: Aesthetic Resistance, Symbolic Power, and the Battles for Meaning

Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of Small Wars Journal as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on 09.29.2025 and is available here. Standing before Pablo Picasso’s Guernica in Gernika is more than observing

Chip War and the Battle for Technological Sovereignty: A Hybrid Warfare Perspective

Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of Small Wars Journal as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on 04.16.2025 and is available here. Chris Miller’s Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most

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