The Department of Defense’s Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) is extremely proud to announce the Center will assume publishing duties and responsibilities of PRISM: The Journal of Complex Operations, effective Sept. 3, 2024. “PRISM is chartered to study, promote, and reinforce emerging thought and best practices as civilian capacity increases in stability, reconstruction, security, counterinsurgency, and irregular warfare operations.” (David Gurney, […]
A country’s economy is core to its national security, driving significant discourse regarding economic warfare. Current strategies, however, are driven more by political expediency than tactical efficacy. These strategies are based on the hope that “narrow” approaches targeting specific industry sectors or “nice” approaches avoiding harm to large population segments will drive impact. Hope, however, is not a strategy.
The IWC recently hosted its first essay competition for the IW Student Working Group (SWG) FAN, which includes outstanding individuals at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. After a rigorous selection process, we are thrilled to announce the winner: Sam Paulson! Congratulations to Sam for his exceptional essay, titled “Technical Means, Strategic Ends: Cyber Deterrence in the Context of Information […]
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The Department of Defense’s Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) is extremely proud to announce the publication of its first book, The Future Faces of Irregular Warfare: Great Power Competition in the 21st Century, published by the Irregular Warfare Center Press, now available on the IWC’s website as an E-book. The book is an edited volume of essays from leading scholars and […]
The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) co-hosted the FBI National Academy Association’s annual Asia-Pacific symposium in Danang, Vietnam, June 24-25, 2024. Dr. Jeff Gardner, IWC’s Chief of Curriculum, provided opening remarks and welcomed more than 190 attendees to the annual event. “The IWC is honored to assist in sponsoring this 24th Asia Pacific Conference to allow continued professional collaboration in dealing […]
The Department of Defense’s Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) and the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s (FPRI) Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare will co-host a two-day conference on September 17 and 18, 2024, to discuss irregular warfare lessons learned since 9/11 at the U.S. Naval Institute Jack C. Taylor Conference Center, Annapolis, Maryland. The conference aims to capture […]
The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) and the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (HCOE) entered into a unique partnership in FY 24 making both institutions stronger and more globally connected. The HCOE was born out of a desire to strengthen NATO-EU cooperation on hybrid threats with the 2016 Joint NATO/EU declaration committing both institutions to counter hybrid threats in a cooperative manner. In this declaration, NATO and the EU voiced the realization that hybrid threats exploited the divisions between civil and military responses. Success in countering these threats requires combining individual strengths and areas of expertise. Finland answered the call in 2017 by creating the HCOE and, to date, 36 NATO Allies and EU Member States have become members of the Center.
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Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and its subsequent transition into a large-scale war, has shown that conventional warfare maintains its relevance in a world of strategic competition. At the same time, however, it has also underscored the inherently hybrid nature of modern warfare, with blurred boundaries between conventional and irregular elements. For Russia and Ukraine, this means that the conflict is occurring at all levels, tactical to strategic, and in multiple domains simultaneously: the front lines, rear areas, areas of occupation, the cyber domain, the information environment, and beyond. In planning for national and territorial defense, countries must account for this element, or risk mismatching resources in ways that degrade their warfighting capability. In this complex threat environment, Special Operations Forces (SOF) have proven invaluable.
On behalf of the Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) and the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s (FPRI) Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare, you are formally invited to attend the Irregular Warfare: Lessons Learned Since 9/11 Conference.
The conference aims to capture lessons learned, including positive and negative examples, in the conduct of irregular warfare operations around the world by U.S., allied, partner nations and non-state actors after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Details:
WHAT: Irregular Warfare: Lessons Learned Since 9/11 Conference
WHERE: U.S. Naval Institute Jack C. Taylor Conference Center in Annapolis, Maryland - 291 Wood Rd, Naval Academy, MD 21402
WHEN: 17-18 September 2024
WHY: To discuss irregular warfare lessons learned since 9/11
RSVP: Due by 09 September 2024
Please find the agenda here.
Please formally RSVP via the link:
https://einvitations.afit.edu/inv/anim.cfm?i=900847&k=0B6142017F50
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