Join the Almost Diplomatic crew to discuss geopolitics, national security and nonsense over a couple beers. Episode Five has us discussing the implications and where we are as a country 16 years after the 9/11 attacks. Spoiler: We talk about Afghanistan, a lot.
Almost Diplomatic: EP04 – Extremism from Barcelona to Charlottesville
Join the Almost Diplomatic crew to discuss geopolitics, national security and nonsense over a couple beers. In Episode Four we discuss the recent terrorist attacks and extremist incidents in Barcelona and Charlottesville focusing on the different spheres of extremism.
Almost Diplomatic: EP07 – Astropolitics & Space Junk
Join the Almost Diplomatic crew to discuss geopolitics, national security and nonsense over a couple beers. In Episode Seven we are looking at the final frontier, space, which is terrifying. We talk about Military policy in space and use a lot of movie references.
Almost Diplomatic: EP03 – When Borders Collide
Join the Almost Diplomatic crew to discuss geopolitics, national security and nonsense over a couple beers. In Episode three we are talking about border issues/disputes in a variety of fashions such as porosity, the breaching of sovereignty, and territorial claims.
Almost Diplomatic: Episode 8 – Damn AI, You Scary – Future war, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems
Join the Almost Diplomatic crew to discuss geopolitics, national security and nonsense over a couple beers. From TLAMs to Terminator, Episode Eight has us discussing future war and in particular, autonomous systems... and centaurs?
Audio Almost Diplomatic: Episode 2 – The UN, Sovereignty and Such
Come join the Almost Diplomatic crew to discuss geopolitics, national security and nonsense over a couple beers. Episode 02 has us discussing the United Nations, Internationalism along with issues such as intervention vs. sovereignty.
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Almost Diplomatic: Episode 1 – The South China Sea Covfefe
Come join the Almost Diplomatic crew to discuss geopolitics, national security and nonsense over a couple beers. Episode 01 focuses on a myriad of things including the current affairs of the South China Sea.
New Addition: Irregular Warfare Reference Library
The Irregular Warrior is creating a reference library of public domain studies and doctrine related to irregular warfare. Our first additions to this library are from the Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) project. ARIS consists of research conducted for the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) by the National Security Analysis Department of The Johns Hopkins
Should we ditch unconventional warfare? A Special Forces officer would, and instead focus on support to Political Warfare
Misunderstandings about the nature of unconventional warfare and what it can be expected to accomplish are hindering the effective use of this core mission of US special operations forces. Replacing the term with the more readily understood “support to indigenous resistance” and reconnecting it to the concept of political warfare would solve this problem.
Iran’s “Pipeline” of Advanced Weapons Systems to Houthis
The outgoing commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), Vice Adm. Kevin M. “Kid” Donegan, accused Iran in a recent interview of providing advanced weapon systems to the Houthi Rebels in Yemen. It is not news that Iran is supporting the Houthis in their rebellion against the central government of Yemen as part of