8+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1101+ words) COL Jerry E. Landrum is a faculty instructor at the United States Army War College." He spent most of his career serving as an information operations officer." Jerry holds a Ph D in Security Studies from Kansas State University where he…...

14+ hour, 30+ min ago  (582+ words) Small Wars Journal Putin's Obsession with Ukraine Putin's behavior in his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began exactly four years ago " on February 24, 2022, seems irrational and resembles an obsession. Having launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine and suffered an initial…...

14+ hour, 30+ min ago  (873+ words) Small Wars Journal Redefining Readiness: Why US Special Operations Forces Must Be Optimized for Irregular Competition United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) are increasingly evaluated through conventional readiness frameworks that degrade the human capital and relational capabilities essential to irregular…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (313+ words) This article examines the impact of U. S. foreign military assistance on influencing the alignment of foreign and national security policies and proposes changes to increase the impact of this type of assistance in directions favorable for the United States. Phrased differently,…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (428+ words) After more than a month of an intense regional war, a ceasefire between Iran and the U. S. has de-escalated the conflict, at least for some time, as international efforts toward a broader agreement continue. Recent commentary talks about the diplomacy that…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1026+ words) CPT James M. Peterson is a Military Intelligence Officer assigned to 1st BDE, 82nd Airborne Division. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in International Relations and International Security from George Mason University. He is a graduate of Military Intelligence Captains Career Course (MICCC) Class…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (296+ words) Small Wars Journal The Resistance Hub: A Free, Open-Source Library for Irregular Warfare and Resistance Studies For those working in the irregular warfare space, The Resistance Hubis worth bookmarking. Built as an independent, non-affiliated resource, it aggregates and distills the…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (219+ words) The strategic signal is clear, but the operational reality is bleak: these documents assume a capability that does not yet exist. They demand effects at the speed of the global information ecosystem, where narratives harden into "reality" in minutes, while…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1149+ words) On the very first day of the Iran War, February 28, 2026, more than 1, 000 Iranian targets were struck by US airstrikes. This is almost double the number of strikes carried out on the first day of the Iraq War, launched in 2003. The…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1085+ words) The "crowdsourced" and "networked" nature of Ukraine's war against Russia has received significant attention, but its most explosive implication has not yet been confronted: it collides with the architecture of international humanitarian law by eroding one of its core principles…...