Irregular Warfare Podcast

107 - Insiders, Outsiders and Enablers: Intelligence Support to Irregular Warfare

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 and features in-depth conversations with guests from the military, academia, and the policy community. The podcast is a collaboration between the Modern War Institute at West Point and Princeton University’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project.

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107 - Insiders, Outsiders and Enablers: Intelligence Support to Irregular Warfare

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103 - Secret Wars: Covert Action and Irregular Warfare

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102 - The Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space

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101 - Stay Behind Operations

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100 - Armed Politics

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94 - IW Lessons from Gaza: Lawfare, Humanitarian Crises, and Urban Combat

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93 - Dealers and Brokers in Proxy Wars: Exploring All Means Available

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92 - Taking the Long View on Hamas

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91 - Irregular Warfare at Sea: The Cod Wars and Sea Shepherd

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90 - Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives

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89 - The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Hostage Diplomacy 101

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88 - Gray Zone: China’s Political Warfare

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87 - Inside the US-China Tech War

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86 - Who’s Watching the Watchmen? Congressional Oversight of Irregular Warfare

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85 - Hindsight and Foresight: A Twenty-Year Retrospective on Irregular Warfare and Counterinsurgency

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84 - The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance

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83 - Treating or Feeding the Disease? Elite Capture of the Security Sector

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82 - Proxy Warfare, Theory and Practice

Fri, 30 Jun 2023
81 - Securing the Cyber Domain: Exploring Cyber Policy in the Department of Defense

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80 - Operation Inherent Resolve: The Merits—and Pitfalls—of Fighting “By, With, and Through” a Partner Force

Fri, 02 Jun 2023
79 - Gray Zone—The Alliance is the Message

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78 - The Cyber-SOF-Space Triad and the Future of Army Special Operations

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77 - The Digital Bear in Ukraine: Russian Cyber Operations Since 2014

Thu, 20 Apr 2023
76 - The Terrorist’s Dilemma: How Nonstate Actors Manage Covert Organizations

Fri, 07 Apr 2023
75 - Deterrence through Asymmetry: Preparing for Conflict in the Taiwan Strait

Fri, 24 Mar 2023
74 - War Transformed: How Emerging Technologies are Changing Human Conflict

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73 - Connecting the Dots: An Inside Look at the National Defense Strategy

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72 - Seizing the Digital Initiative: Zero Trust and Persistence in the Cyber Domain

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71 - The Many Faces of Al-Shabaab

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70 - Misguided Citizens: India’s Approach to Counterinsurgency

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69 - The Arctic Heats Up: Global Competition in the High North

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68 - Aviation Advising: Access and Influence through Airpower

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67 - Transmitting Values: Can US Security Force Assistance Export Democratic Norms?

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66 - Slow Burn: How US Security Cooperation Shapes Operational Environments

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62 - Time, Space, and Material: Metrics for Assessing Irregular Warfare

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58 - Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: US Intelligence in a Changing World

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