Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. The following organizations support IWI's mission to advance the study of irregular warfare. Bridging the gap ...

Ford Pitts is a senior studying International Politics at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. His academic and professional interests focus on U.S. hostage affairs. This past ...

Bridging the gap between irregular warfare scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

This article is presented in a question-and-answer format, with the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Maritime Program’s ...

Owen West’s brief remark during the 2026 AUSA Project Agincourt autonomous warfare panel deserves attention beyond the room.

Why does providing aircraft to partner forces so often fall short of building an effective air force? Retired Lieutenant General Anthony Rock, Michael Horowitz, and Tobias Switzer join Kyle Atwell to ...

Just before eight o’clock on a September evening in 2021, two men opened a conversation on Telegram about how to kidnap a Russian fugitive. One, Orlin Roussev, was a Bulgarian information technology ...

The speed of Ukrainian counter-messaging and will to fight has rendered Russian psychological operations in Ukraine ineffective. However, throughout the Middle East, Russia has successfully used ...

On May 17, 2026, Iran proposed a “Hormuz Safe” platform for ships seeking to cross the Strait of Hormuz. This Bitcoin-denominated platform would enable cargo owners to purchase ...

Editor's note: The "Short of War" Podcast discussing this article is AI-generated. This episode highlights an important aspect: cyber offenders do not exist in a vacuum; rather, they are constantly ...

The ANSF’s collapse was not a military defeat. It was the final, visible stage of an institutional failure that had been running for two decades. Following the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, ...