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Turns out weakness enables bad people. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The SFABs are dead. Long live the SFABs. www.army.mil/article/290188

NATO SFA Doctrine has been updated with lessons since the end of Afghanistan. irregularwarfare.org/articles/nat...

Two posts about foreign fighters in 2 weeks -- only IWI irregularwarfare.org/sof-in-compe...

What I am listening to when in the zone www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgad...

Good infographic warontherocks.com/2026/01/at-a...

Thanks to AUSA for running this exceptional army professional writing conference last week. Not sure why they let the nerd on the left in the pic speak on a panel though www.ausa.org/news/isenhow...

Stuck inside during snowpocalypse the next couple days? Grab a comfy blanket, curl up on the couch, and listen to this tale about why some people choose to travel to far away lands to fight on behalf of others. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

This is OG IW Podcast material smallwarsjournal.com/2026/01/07/w...

USA withdrawing from a bunch of international organizations. Interesting not more reporting on this. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Fact based arguments packaged for busy people smallwarsjournal.com/2026/01/07/w...

Proxy war is the main way states attack each other www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...

Ukraine war shows vital supporting role SOF play in warfare ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/N...

The people have voted. Top IWI content announced thru the IWI newsletter Not a subscriber to this FREE resource? Go here: irregularwarfare.org#newsletter

New from the IWI Economic and Legal Warfare Project www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAgZ...

How cool is this? Expect to see a lot more IWI content on YouTube in 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW0L...

The info space is getting scary out there. Luckily the majority of people are well informed and think critically about the information they receive! warontherocks.com/2025/12/anch...

Just riding the latest IW fad www.fpri.org/article/2025...

#ukraine war watchers. Feedback about this conversation has been very positive - check it out irregularwarfare.org/podcasts/is-...

Future of media is direct interaction with very specific audiences. Love this thesis from @jasonhiner.bsky.social heard on This Week in Tech -- IWI does exactly this @leolaporte.me twit.tv/shows/this-w...

The IWI Economic and Legal Warfare Program is looking for written submissions. Check it out and drive the national security dialogue mailchi.mp/irregularwar...

Small Wars Journal and Irregular Warfare Initiative are the leaders in irregular warfare public dialogue and community building smallwarsjournal.com/2025/12/10/t...

Harding Substack has some great shorts on Army history @goldwagnathan.bsky.social @tankarchives.bsky.social @societyarmy.bsky.social www.hardingproject.com/p/why-platin...

I’m pleased to have a new piece out today with the Irregular Warfare Initiative! In it, I give a plain English overview of the Pentagon’s new irregular warfare guidance and discuss what impact it may (or may not) have on the US military. Take a look! 👇 irregularwarfare.org/uncategorize...

Love this definition of intelligence podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...

War has many costs

Military industrial complex? pirg.org/media-center...

Weekly dose of IW goodies mailchi.mp/irregularwar...

In the Indo-Pacific, where gray-zone coercion thrives on limited visibility, commercial and unclassified satellite data are giving frontline partners the ability to see earlier, understand faster, and challenge malign activity on their own terms. irregularwarfare.org/articles/str...

A reminder: with €326 billion in military spending, €416 billion including the United Kingdom, although far from matching the power of the United States (€873 billion), the Europeans have three times more military power than Russia (€130 billion). tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/sirs-do-no...

Good edition of the SOF News newsletter sof.news/update/20251...

This is the best book I have read in years. Hard #'s for what we know but don't develop policy to --> proxy war is the most persistent/prominent form of international conflict. FID/SFA are essential tools of statecraft

Nice to be cited by the estimable Christian Tripodi alongside the great Alex Chinchilla & Martijn Kitzen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The more proficient we are in conventional operations, the more likely our adversaries are going to operate in the irregular environment" smallwarsjournal.com/2025/11/29/c...

Agree big time the general natsec community underestimates the significance of irregular warfare. But the #'s who follow and regularly engage with IWI suggest the community is much larger than 150. smallwarsjournal.com/2025/11/28/i...

The US must focus on building and security access to adequate critical mineral refining capacity www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econog...

Argument is reduced water in Lake Chad Basin is driving up conflict. By Nuzhat Tasnim Rahman Raisa at University of Kent published thru IWI Conflict exists in this region for all recorded history. Drought likely exacerbates, but conflict is part of this place. irregularwarfare.org/uncategorize...

Is this true? -- "The Sahel, which includes Northern Cameroon, is heating 1.5 times faster than the global average." irregularwarfare.org/uncategorize...

Solid from CW3 Greg Urbanski at Special Warfare Journal from SWCS I'd push further --> split teams should be ARSOF's default employment for FID/SFA as well www.swcs.mil/Special-Warf...

ARSOF definitely struggles to sell itself to the CF smallwarsjournal.com/2025/11/24/s...

Warfare will transition toward autonomous robots in all domains over the next decade. While a lot of intellectual focus has been on the air domain, more thinking needs to be done on the ground, water, and space domains. electronics360.globalspec.com/article/2294...

Nice www.armyupress.army.mil/journals/mil...

Fall in! www.hardingproject.com/p/the-friday...

Exceptional piece warontherocks.com/2025/10/will...

"Mosquito Air Force". First I heard that www.lineofdeparture.army.mil/Journals/Air...

Just finished reading. Entrepreneurship by acquisition -- under serious consideration

Great article by the Aviation Branch Harding Fellow www.hardingproject.com/p/throwback-...

The future is bright www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

SOF in LSCO requires changes to how we educated, train, and employ our special operators. www.swcs.mil/Special-Warf...