Writing book on mil intervention & delegating security tasks to mil partner forces. Chair @IrregWarfare | PhD @PrincetonSPIA | Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil
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The 2027 IWI Nonresident Fellowship is now accepting applications.
Our Fellows are the people doing the work: writing analysis that shapes the debate, recording podcasts, speaking on panels, and talking to the press. Some are scholars, some are practitioners, some have been both. What they share is a serious interest in irregular warfare and a willingness to bring what they know to a wider audience.
We asked two members of the 2026 cohort, Dr. John A. Pennell and Nicole Winget, J.D., what the fellowship has given them. Their answers are below.
If you're an academic, researcher, practitioner, or policymaker working in this space, we'd like to hear from you.
You know you are doing something right when the estimable Brian Petit cites you
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Exceptional insights on why the Afghan war failed
New IWI article: The Afghan Army: What Advisors Couldn’t See and Officers Couldn’t Change
In this article, Yaser Yarghal draws on his experience as a former Afghan Army Major and Special Forces officer to examine how institutional corruption, patronage networks, and systemic failures undermined the Afghan military long before 2021. The article also offers important lessons for future Security Force Assistance efforts and partner force development.
Read the full article here:lnkd.in/eyKKFqpy
#IrregularWarfare #NationalSecurity #SecurityForceAssistance #Afghanistan #MilitaryStrategy #DefensePolicy #CivilMilitaryRelations #IWI
Been wondering if aircraft carriers are too vulnerable in the age of mass drone swarms
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New on the Irregular Warfare Initiative: Gray Zone Contestation Between North and South Korea in the Yellow Sea.
In this article, Michael MacArthur Bosack explores how North Korea could leverage gray zone tactics, maritime ambiguity, and civilian fishing fleets to challenge the status quo in one of the Indo-Pacific's most contested waterways. Rather than focusing on conventional conflict, the article examines how incremental coercion below the threshold of war could reshape regional security and test alliance deterrence.
Read the full article here: irregularwarfare.org/gray-zo…
#IrregularWarfare #GrayZone #IndoPacific #MaritimeSecurity #NorthKorea #SouthKorea #NationalSecurity #Strategy #ForeignPolicy
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Our Strategic Advisor, Lt Gen (Ret.) Scott Howell , participated in the latest @IrregWarfare Podcast.
Together with author Monty Halls, they trace the origins of Britain's WWII commandos and draw a sharp line to the challenges facing special operations today: integrating cyber, space, and UAVs, protecting the mavericks who drive change, and adapting before failure forces it.
The fighting forces that win are the ones that make their own models obsolete before an adversary does.
For those interested in special operations forces, military innovation/transformation, or military history (especially WWII era)
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We are pleased to announce the opening keynote of our upcoming 'Strategic Minerals in Competition' Conference is Maura Burns, former Chief Operating Officer of @CIA.
Day one also features a fireside conversation with Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch, U.S. Ambassador (Ret.), former U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, in conversation with Rick de la Torre (@vrk_rick), Founder and CEO of @TowerStrategyDC
Two days of keynotes, panels, and candid conversation with the people shaping the response.
Register here: lnkd.in/effePn5u
DC area conference July 21-22 focused on economic statecraft and strategic resources in competition. Register below!
Critical minerals and rare earth elements have become a front line in strategic competition. Whoever controls the supply chain shapes the fight.
On July 21-22, @IrregWarfare @SOAAorg are convening leaders from government, industry, academia, and the national security community to work through exactly that, at Carahsoft Headquarters in Reston, Virginia.
Register below:
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It was a pleasure to talk allies and access with @LuteDoug and @AtwellKyle on @IrregWarfare . Full episode available here youtube.com/watch?v=q0liIbBk… and wherever you get your podcasts
Just recorded an episode with Ambassador Doug Lute, former Ambassador to NATO, and Dr. Rachel Metz on the interaction between alliances and military ACCESS. Doug sent this letter signed by 16 former Ambassadors and Supreme Allied Commanders to share
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Loved this conversation
Professor David Logan discusses how nuclear weapons shape wars between major powers on the @IrregWarfare podcast. @AlexCecylia
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Kyle Atwell retweeted
Still on cloud 9 from such an amazing crowd at yesterday’s book launch. Huge thanks to everyone for showing up!
Cc: @SchneidermanDM @RenanahJoyce @AlexCecylia @smallwars @DavidMaxwell161 @AtwellKyle @IrregWarfare @PennWashDC @MichaelEOHanlon @nolanwpeterson @mikenelson586
If you missed yesterday's launch for @alexhnoyes and @RickBennet's book on military assistance, and their conversation with Mara Karlin, you can still watch here: brook.gs/4dQLqa9
Congrats to both the outgoing and incoming leadership of the highly successful and impactful IWI Air and Space Power program
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Love to see when my day-job at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and content out of the Irregular Warfare Initiative overlap.
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You can now register for the critical minerals conference being run by IWI and SOAA
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