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IW Weekly - 30 August 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular August 30, 2026 This Week Arctic contestation dominates the week: NATO's "kill web" tests above the GIUK Gap, Russia's fishing-fleet push for Arctic maritime power, the "Ground Station Gap," and renewed warnings on lagging U.
IW Weekly - 23 August 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular August 23, 2026 This Week Arctic competition dominates: China's icebreaker buoy deployments, its "quiet conquest" and Northern Sea Route push, and U.S./Norway/UK counter-surveillance in the High North all point to the pole becoming a contested flank.
IW Weekly - 16 August 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular August 16, 2026 This Week Drone proliferation cuts across every theater this week — CENTCOM's new multinational attack drone task force, gang warfare in Latin America adopting Ukrainian TTPs, and command-and-control gaps flagged at West Point all point to autonomy outpacing
IW Weekly - 09 August 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular August 09, 2026 This Week This week's reporting converges on two fronts: Indo-Pacific posturing and the unsettled lessons of drone warfare. Taiwan's war games, PACOM's reconsideration of Micronesia infrastructure, Beijing's South China Sea maneuvering, and
IW Weekly - 02 August 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular August 02, 2026 This Week China's "Total War on Taipei" cognitive-effects push, Russia's Baltic C2 model, al-Qaeda and ISIS diverging on AI adoption, and Sahel counter-drone/AI teaming all point to the contest moving into
IW Weekly - 26 July 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular July 26, 2026 This Week Gray zone escalation dominates this week: China batons Philippine sailors in disputed waters, Russia's shadow fleet and Wagner rebrand for the maritime and PMC front, and Iran's underground resistance movements test the regime from within.
IW Weekly - 19 July 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular July 19, 2026 This Week Iran dominates the week's irregular-warfare traffic: Reaper losses, kamikaze drone-boat strikes, Houthi threats against the Red Sea, and Hormuz all point to an escalating contest short of full war. China runs a parallel thread — Coast
IW Weekly - 12 July 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular July 12, 2026 This Week Drones and coercion converge this week. Cartels weaponize them for coercion in Ecuador and against Mexican rivals; Russia and Ukraine iterate machine-speed adaptive tactics; SOCOM, the Army, and Hegseth's new autonomy czar chase the same tempo
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
IW Weekly - 21 June 2026
IRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY Keep Warfare Irregular June 21, 2026 This Week Autonomous systems reshaping tactical reality, criminal and militant networks expanding their governance reach, and China's steady accumulation of influence across multiple theaters. Ukraine's battlefield continues to drive the autonomy debate — AI-powered "Terminator"
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