✍️ ‘The 🇳🇱 colonial experience offers striking parallels today’s maritime security challenges – now underscored by Houthi interdiction in the Red Sea.’ Read @pieterzhao.bsky.social on lessons from counter-piracy operations in colonial 🇮🇩 #Broadside www.thebroadside.org...

Great discussion with @pieterzhao.bsky.social on this timely topic

⚓ What can the past teach us about today’s irregular threats? In a new piece for the Irregular Warfare Initiative, I look at Dutch counter-piracy operations in colonial Indonesia - and the striking parallels to the dilemmas navies face today. 👉 irregularwarfare.org/articles/irr...

Excited to start the new year as an Irregular Warfare Initiative Fellow 🎉 Looking forward to engaging in discussions with this diverse group of scholars and practitioners and collaborating on research related to irregular warfare, with a specific focus on the maritime domain. shorturl.at/DM6I9