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Irregular Warfare Podcast

Irregular Warfare Initiative

The Irregular Warfare Podcast explores an important component of war throughout history. Small wars, drone strikes, special operations forces, counterterrorism, proxies—this podcast covers the full range of topics related to irregular war…

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What's Cyber Good For? 2026-10-13 · 49m
The Airpower We Need for Irregular Warfare 2026-09-29 · 47m
War at Arm’s Length: Can Military Assistance Work? 2026-09-15 · 55m
Hidden Costs of Precision 2026-09-01 · 51m
The Future of War Part IV: Special Operations on a Global Battlefield 2026-08-18 · 72m
From Subversion to Resistance: Lessons from Russia’s War in Ukraine 2026-08-11 · 60m
Five Years After the Withdrawal: Insights from the Afghanistan War Commission 2026-07-28 · 62m
Innovation Under Fire: What WWII’s Commandos Teach Us About War and the Future of Special Operations 2026-07-21 · 51m
From NATO to the Gulf: Allies, Access, and the Hidden Architecture of American Power 2026-07-07 · 57m
The Wars Nuclear Weapons Don't Prevent 2026-06-23 · 53m
Setting Out to Win: Why America Needs to Get Serious About Irregular Warfare 2026-06-09 · 56m
Iran, Ukraine, and the Future of Naval Warfare 2026-06-02 · 48m
Hellscape Taiwan: Drones, Deterrence, and the Future of Asymmetric Defense 2026-05-20 · 53m
The Counterinsurgency Dilemma: Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia 2026-05-08 · 50m
Where the Lion Can’t Reach: Unconventional Warfare in Major War 2026-04-24 · 52m
What the Hell is Irregular Warfare Anyway? 2026-04-17 · 61m
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare 2026-04-03 · 58m
From Orbit to Objective: Space and the Future of Conflict 2026-03-20 · 51m
Iran, Revolution, and the Logic of Proxy Warfare 2026-03-13 · 39m
The Strategic Logic of Large Militant Alliance Networks 2026-03-06 · 56m
Preserving the American Edge: Revitalizing the Defense Industrial Base 2026-02-20 · 61m
Competitive Intervention, Proxy War, and Military Assistance: Anderson, Eyre, and Kuhlman 2026-02-06 · 55m
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine and Beyond 2026-01-24 · 43m
The Future of War Part III: Strategic Sabotage in an Era of Great-Power 2026-01-09 · 61m
Ukraine's Hidden Front: The Strategic Impact of Resistance Operations 2025-12-26 · 60m
What Determines Success in Guerrilla Warfare? 2025-12-15 · 44m
Codifying Irregular Warfare—Inside the Pentagon’s new DoD Instruction 3000.07 2025-11-28 · 48m
Is Resistance Working in Ukraine? 2025-11-14 · 52m
South America in Competition Conference: Bonus Episode 2 2025-11-07 · 47m
Unrestricted Innovation: The Supply Chain Battlefield 2025-10-31 · 50m
South America in Competition Conference: Bonus Episode 1 2025-10-24 · 54m
Future of War Part II: On Their Own 2025-10-17 · 61m
Insurgent Armies and State Formation after Victory 2025-10-03 · 55m
Future of War Part I: Raiders at the Edge of Tomorrow 2025-09-19 · 50m
The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan 2025-09-05 · 46m
Winning Without Fighting: Economic Power and Information Warfare (Part 2) 2025-08-22 · 39m
Winning Without Fighting: Strategic Culture and Gray Zone Competition (Part 1) 2025-08-08 · 38m
Winning Without Fighting: Strategic Culture and Gray Zone Competition (Part 1) 2025-08-08 · 38m
Winning Without Fighting: Strategic Culture and Gray Zone Competition (Part 1) 2025-08-08 · 38m
Security Hybridization: U.S., China, and the Future of Global Security Assistance 2025-07-10 · 55m
Operation Spider’s Web and the Future of Asymmetric Warfare 2025-06-25 · 55m
Agile, Adaptable, AFSOC: Building Edge in Contested Skies 2025-06-13 · 44m
Five Years of IWI: From Podcast to Platform 2025-05-30 · 63m
The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War 2025-04-22 · 54m
Plausible Deniability: Proxy Actors and the Hybrid Threat Ecosystem 2025-04-04 · 39m
Ukraine's Hidden Front: The Strategic Impact of Resistance Operations 2025-03-14 · 60m
The Fourth Age: The SOCOM Commander's Vision for the Future 2025-02-13 · 59m
Training for Victory: Lessons for Security Force Assistance 2025-01-28 · 48m
Theory vs. Practice: What is Irregular War? 2025-01-10 · 52m
Below the Threshold: China's Strategy of Armed Coercion 2024-12-27 · 46m
Culture, Access, Influence: The FAO Advantage in Irregular Warfare 2024-12-13 · 56m
Sneaky Wars in the Indo-Pacific 2024-11-29 · 52m
SOF’s Role in Conflict 2024-11-15 · 51m
Adapting to the Unpredictable: Climate’s Impact on Irregular Warfare 2024-10-31 · 52m
SOF and Influence Activities 2024-10-18 · 45m
The Stability Instability Paradox: How Nuclear Weapons Incentivize Irregular Warfare 2024-10-04 · 54m
DIU: Silicon Valley Meets the Modern Battlefield 2024-09-20 · 45m
Afghanistan Three Years Later: Alliances and Rivalries 2024-09-06 · 56m
SOF in Competition - Special Project 2024-08-23 · 52m
Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 2: Arguments Against a Seventh Service 2024-08-09 · 51m
Illicit Financing of Violence in Sudan 2024-07-26 · 44m
Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 1: Arguments for a Seventh Service 2024-07-12 · 44m
Drones are Here to Stay: The Proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Systems Across the Spectrum of War 2024-06-28 · 60m
Paramilitaries Abroad: China’s Use of Nontraditional Security Forces 2024-06-14 · 54m
Drones, Automation, and how ARSOF is Adapting 2024-05-31 · 51m
Lessons from the Eastern Front: Security Force Assistance in Ukraine 2024-05-17 · 54m
Insiders, Outsiders and Enablers: Intelligence Support to Irregular Warfare 2024-05-03 · 59m
Cold War Lessons for a New Era: Connecting IW and Great Power Competition 2024-04-19 · 51m
Strategic Disruption by Special Operations Forces 2024-04-05 · 52m
Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants 2024-03-22 · 56m
Secret Wars: Covert Action and Irregular Warfare 2024-03-08 · 55m
The Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space 2024-02-23 · 53m
Stay Behind Operations 2024-02-09 · 46m
Armed Politics 2024-01-26 · 52m
The Stability-Instability Paradox: How Nuclear Weapons Incentivize Irregular Warfare 2024-01-12 · 54m
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949 2023-12-29 · 51m
The Defense of Europe: The Trans-Atlantic Relationship after Two Years of War 2023-12-15 · 49m
Fighting for Survival: Israel’s Counterterrorism Strategy 2023-12-12 · 29m
IW Lessons from Gaza: Lawfare, Humanitarian Crises, and Urban Combat 2023-12-01 · 53m
Dealers and Brokers in Proxy Wars: Exploring All Means Available 2023-11-17 · 58m
Taking the Long View on Hamas 2023-11-14 · 32m
Irregular Warfare at Sea: The Cod Wars and Sea Shepherd 2023-11-03 · 52m
Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives 2023-10-20 · 55m
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hostage Diplomacy 101 2023-10-05 · 46m
Gray Zone: China’s Political Warfare 2023-09-21 · 51m
Inside the US-China Tech War 2023-09-08 · 41m
Who’s Watching the Watchmen? Congressional Oversight of Irregular Warfare 2023-08-25 · 52m
Hindsight and Foresight: A Twenty-Year Retrospective on Irregular Warfare and Counterinsurgency 2023-08-11 · 54m
The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance 2023-07-28 · 50m
Treating or Feeding the Disease? Elite Capture of the Security Sector 2023-07-14 · 53m
Proxy Warfare, Theory and Practice 2023-06-30 · 52m
Securing the Cyber Domain: Exploring Cyber Policy in the Department of Defense 2023-06-16 · 55m
Operation Inherent Resolve: The Merits—and Pitfalls—of Fighting “By, With, and Through” a Partner Force 2023-06-02 · 43m
Gray Zone—The Alliance is the Message 2023-05-19 · 55m
The Cyber-SOF-Space Triad and the Future of Army Special Operations 2023-05-02 · 54m
The Digital Bear in Ukraine: Russian Cyber Operations Since 2014 2023-04-20 · 55m
The Terrorist’s Dilemma: How Nonstate Actors Manage Covert Organizations 2023-04-07 · 59m
Deterrence through Asymmetry: Preparing for Conflict in the Taiwan Strait 2023-03-24 · 47m
War Transformed: How Emerging Technologies are Changing Human Conflict 2023-03-10 · 46m
Connecting the Dots: An Inside Look at the National Defense Strategy 2023-02-24 · 53m
Seizing the Digital Initiative: Zero Trust and Persistence in the Cyber Domain 2023-02-10 · 49m
The Many Faces of Al-Shabaab 2023-01-27 · 48m
Misguided Citizens: India’s Approach to Counterinsurgency 2023-01-13 · 52m
The Arctic Heats Up: Global Competition in the High North 2022-12-30 · 44m
Aviation Advising: Access and Influence through Airpower 2022-12-16 · 54m
Transmitting Values: Can US Security Force Assistance Export Democratic Norms? 2022-12-02 · 51m
Slow Burn: How US Security Cooperation Shapes Operational Environments 2022-11-18 · 56m
From Street Fights to World Wars: What Gang Violence Can Teach Us about Conflict 2022-11-04 · 58m
The Great Equalizer: Irregular Warfare in the City 2022-10-21 · 48m
After Mali: Learning from the French Experience of Irregular Warfare in the Sahel 2022-10-07 · 56m
Time, Space, and Material: Metrics for Assessing Irregular Warfare 2022-09-24 · 39m
Another Forgotten War: America’s Experience in Afghanistan 2022-09-12 · 60m
Insurgents Rarely Win: Adaptation in the Face of Failure 2022-08-26 · 58m
The Bin Laden Papers: The Inner Workings of Al-Qeada’s Leadership 2022-08-12 · 56m
The Bin Laden Papers: The Inner Workings of Al-Qaeda’s Leadership 2022-08-12 · 56m
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: US Intelligence in a Changing World 2022-07-29 · 59m
Money Talks: How Nonstate Armed Groups Finance their Operations and Organizations 2022-07-15 · 49m
Political Warfare and the Road to Invasion: Irregular Warfare in Ukraine since 2014 2022-07-01 · 24m
From Little Green Men to Tanks Outside Kyiv: Irregular Warfare in Ukraine since 2014 2022-06-17 · 42m
Plan Colombia: Anatomy of a Successful Counterinsurgency Campaign 2022-06-03 · 51m
Digital Irregular Warfare: Cyber at the Tactical Level 2022-05-20 · 44m
Little Blue Men in the South China Sea: Unmasking China’s Maritime Militia 2022-05-06 · 49m
Digital Terrorists: Policy and Practice in the Online Counterterrorism Fight 2022-04-22 · 45m
Dynamite to Drones: The Diffusion of Lethal Technology to Terrorists and Insurgents 2022-04-08 · 48m
COIN and Culture: How Important is Cultural Intelligence in Counterinsurgency? 2022-03-25 · 47m
The Motivations and Methods Behind Russian Hybrid Warfare 2022-03-11 · 49m
Russia, China, and Iran: The Face of Competition in the Middle East 2022-02-25 · 59m
The Kill Chain: Why America Faces the Prospect of Defeat 2022-02-12 · 51m
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Enduring Lessons of Security Force Assistance 2022-01-28 · 55m
Anytime, Anyplace: Air Force Special Operations Command in Future Irregular Warfare 2022-01-14 · 39m
Two Sides of the COIN: Good Governance vs. Compellence 2022-01-01 · 44m
The Future of Coalition Building and Irregular Warfare 2021-12-17 · 56m
Learning from the Past, Anticipating the Future: Organizational Change in Irregular Warfare 2021-12-03 · 41m
Cyberspace as a Battlespace: Irregular Warfare through Bits and Bytes 2021-11-19 · 54m
Special Operations Forces and Great Power Competition 2021-11-05 · 57m
What Have We Learned from Twenty Years of War? 2021-10-22 · 72m
On the Road to Jihad: The Role of Foreign Fighters in Irregular Warfare 2021-10-18 · 51m
Information Operations for the Information Age: IO in Irregular Warfare 2021-09-24 · 47m
Lessons from the Hardest Place: Twenty Years of War in Afghanistan 2021-09-13 · 53m
China’s Strategically Irregular Approach: The Art of the Gray Zone 2021-08-27 · 56m
An Un-American Way of War: Why the United States Fails at Irregular Warfare 2021-08-23 · 55m
Land Forces, Irregular Warfare, and a New Strategic Landscape 2021-07-30 · 42m
Closing the Chapter: Ending Afghanistan for US Army Special Forces 2021-07-16 · 37m
Back to the Future: Resetting Special Operations Forces for Great Power Competition 2021-07-02 · 47m
American Decline: Losing the Campaign for Influence 2021-06-18 · 42m
How a Group of Women Brought the Fight to the Islamic State 2021-06-04 · 40m
Irregular Warfare in the Next World War 2021-05-24 · 44m
The Harsh Lessons of Anbar: Insurgency, the Awakening, and the rise of ISIS 2021-05-07 · 54m
From SAR to GFA: The ABCs of Conflict Prevention and Stabilization 2021-04-23 · 41m
Airpower in Irregular Warfare 2021-04-10 · 51m
Masters of Irregular Warfare—Past, Present, and Future 2021-03-26 · 47m
The View from Washington: Civilian Oversight of SOF 2021-03-12 · 37m
War Entrepreneurs: Economic Drivers of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime 2021-02-26 · 50m
Pacific Gambit: The Role of Irregular Warfare in Australia’s Great Strategic Shift 2021-02-12 · 49m
Institution Building as a Counterinsurgency Tool: The Case of Colombia 2021-01-29 · 41m
Competing for Influence: Operations in the Information Environment 2021-01-16 · 41m
Artificial Intelligence in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency 2021-01-01 · 51m
Breaking the Boom-Bust Cycle of Irregular Warfare 2020-12-18 · 46m
Russia’s Wagner Group and the Rise of Mercenary Warfare 2020-12-04 · 51m
The Practice and Politics of Security Force Assistance 2020-11-20 · 54m
David Petraeus on Irregular Warfare and Countering Violent Extremism 2020-11-06 · 41m
The Costs and Benefits of Unconventional Warfare and Subversion 2020-10-23 · 52m
Counterinsurgency in the Philippines: An Inside Look at Partner Warfare 2020-10-09 · 53m
The Pentagon Bureaucracy and the Human Domain of War 2020-09-25 · 45m
Are Some Militaries Better at Counterinsurgency than Others? 2020-09-14 · 48m
The Future of Irregular Warfare 2020-08-28 · 52m
Proxy Wars, Part 2: Opportunity and Risk in the Middle East 2020-08-14 · 42m
Proxy Wars, Part 1: War Through Local Agents in Africa 2020-07-31 · 55m
Inside Insurgency: Nonstate Armed Groups in Syria and Iraq 2020-07-17 · 37m
Irregular Warfare Oversight in DC 2020-07-03 · 41m
Does Building Partner Military Capacity Work? 2020-06-19 · 41m
Leadership Targeting and Drones: An Effective Counterterrorism Strategy? 2020-06-09 · 40m
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