Irregular Warfare and Defense News

A new feature at the Irregular Warrior: an irregular warfare and defense news feed! Let us know how you like it, what improvements we can make, which news sources you value most, etc.

  • How Benjamin Netanyahu Pushed Israel Into Chaos
    by Ruth Margalit on September 27, 2023 at 4:20 am

    The nation’s current crisis can be traced back, in ways large and small, to the outsize personality of its longest-serving prime minister.

  • Navigating the Crossroads: ACCMA’s Shift in Civilian Career Management
    by Dave Maxwell on September 26, 2023 at 8:28 pm

    Navigating the Crossroads: ACCMA’s Shift in Civilian Career Management Dave Maxwell Tue, 09/26/2023 – 4:28pm The purpose of this article is to offer for discussion the changing landscape of the Army’s Civilian Career Management. Huge civilian management decisions are currently underway with no inputs from Army senior leadership. These changes, done in a void, lack a clearly defined problem to solve and no in-depth studies have been completed. This will potentially cause serious […]

  • 9/26/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
    by Dave Maxwell on September 26, 2023 at 2:39 pm

    9/26/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 25, 2023 2. U.S. Abrams Tanks Reach Ukraine. Is It a Case of Too Little, Too Late? 3. Russia appears ready to accept Crimea as Ukraine’s—on one condition 4. Opinion | The United States is morally obliged to secure the release of hostages 5. Tensions With China Cross a New Line […]

  • Biting Off What It Can Chew: Ukraine Understands Its Attritional Context
    by Robert Rose on September 26, 2023 at 7:45 am

    Among the vineyards seeded with improvised explosive devices in Zhari, Kandahar, there was no possibility of maneuver. By 2012, the Taliban had place so many improvised explosive devices in the area that any attempt at doing the battle drills taught by the U.S. Army to suppress and maneuver on an enemy were suicide. The Taliban were innovative. They knew that when they ambushed us, we would seek cover and then attempt to maneuver on them. So the Taliban emplaced improvised explosive devices […]

  • 9/25/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
    by Dave Maxwell on September 25, 2023 at 4:30 pm

    9/25/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 24, 2023 2. Special Operations News – September 25, 2023 | SOF News 3. France to Withdraw Troops From Niger After Military Coup 4. Blasting Bullhorns and Water Cannons, Chinese Ships Wall Off the Sea 5. Philippines to remove barrier placed by China in South China Sea – national […]

  • Welcome to Cyber Realism: Parsing the 2023 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy
    by Emerson T. Brooking on September 25, 2023 at 7:45 am

    Released to the public on Sept. 12, the Department of Defense’s 2023 Cyber Strategy differs from its predecessors in its lack of bold new buzzwords. The 2015 strategy reimagined deterrence for the cyber domain, and the 2018 strategy articulated “defend forward” as a new foundational concept. But despite being informed by years of major cyber developments — the significant legal and policy changes that enabled U.S. Cyber Command to engage in more frequent offensive cyber operations, as […]

  • France to Pull Its Troops From Niger After Military Coup
    by Elian Peltier and Aurelien Breeden on September 24, 2023 at 11:04 pm

    President Emmanuel Macron said he had also recalled the country’s ambassador, after weeks of escalating tensions with Niger’s new military leaders.

  • 9/24/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
    by Dave Maxwell on September 24, 2023 at 10:18 pm

    9/24/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 23, 2023 2. Strategy to Counter China in Pacific at Risk in Congress Budget Fight 3. Russia’s Army Learns From Its Mistakes in Ukraine 4. U.S. Economy Could Withstand One Shock, but Four at Once? 5. Listen to stunning 911 tape after F-35 pilot parachuted into backyard: ‘We had […]

  • 9/23/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
    by Dave Maxwell on September 23, 2023 at 11:12 pm

    9/23/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment September 22, 2023 2. China Keeps Trying to Crush Them. Their Movement Keeps Growing. 3. The Art of Partisan Warfare Is Not Dead: How old Russian military theories can give new insight into resistance to occupation in Ukraine 4. Why Our Generals Can’t Think 5. Half of DOD civilians would get […]

  • 9/22/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
    by Dave Maxwell on September 22, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    9/22/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Why America Should Send Military Advisers to Ukraine 2. Wither Political Warfare: The Future of Grey Zone Competition 3. Irregular Warfare Podcast: China’s Political Warfare 4. What is Meaningful Human Control, Anyway? Cracking the Code on Autonomous Weapons and Human Judgment 5. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, […]