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Added on April 20, 2023 Research Studies

The Conceptualization of Irregular Warfare in Europe

This report is the first in a series of volumes in which the Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) explores the commonalities and differences of the conceptualization of irregular warfare across U.S. allies and partners. This initial volume compares and contrasts this conceptualization among five European academic institutions: the Netherlands Defence Academy, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, the Swedish Defence University, the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, and the Military Academy of Lithuania. Each of these institutions replied to surveys the IWC designed, assessing how these institutions individually conceptualize and teach irregular warfare and related concepts.

Added on March 30, 2023 News

The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) Hosts IW Seminar at Georgetown University

The newly established Irregular Warfare Center hosted its third IW-themed event in less than a month, the Georgetown IW Seminar, March 23, 2023, at Copley Hall on the historic campus of Georgetown University in Washington D.C. In partnership with Georgetown University, the IWC hosted a seminar on the establishment of the Center, explored the definition of IW and examined a […]

Added on March 29, 2023 News

The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) Hosts International Irregular Warfare Week

The newly established Irregular Warfare Center hosted its second IW-themed event, International Irregular Warfare Week, from March 16-17, 2023, in Arlington Va. The IWC’s International Irregular Warfare Week was a follow-up event for the survey and interviews conducted by the IWC Engagements Department with the intent to compare and contrast the conceptualization of IW between different European institutions. “The first […]

Added on March 21, 2023 News

The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) To Host IW Seminar at Georgetown University

The newly established Irregular Warfare Center is scheduled to host its third IW-themed event in less than a month, The Georgetown IW Seminar, March 23, 2023, in Washington D.C. In partnership with Georgetown University, the IWC will host a two-hour seminar on the establishment of the Center, explore the definition of IW and examine a Ukrainian case-study with ROTC Cadets, […]

Added on March 9, 2023 News

The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) Hosts IW Medical Resiliency Workgroup

The newly established Irregular Warfare Center hosted its first IW-themed event, the IW Medical Resiliency Workgroup, from Feb. 22-24, 2023, in Bethesda, Md. This event was the Center’s initial working group for Irregular Warfare Medicine curriculum development. The event brought together U.S. and allied and partner nation surgeons to discuss medical capabilities in contested or non-permissive environments. Opening remarks were […]

Added on February 21, 2023 News

The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) to Host IW Medical Resiliency Workgroup: Inaugural IWC Event

The newly established Irregular Warfare Center is scheduled to host its first IW-themed event, the IW Medical Resiliency Workgroup, from Feb. 22-24, 2023, in Bethesda, Md.
This event is the Center’s initial working group for Irregular Warfare Medicine curriculum development. The event will bring together U.S. and allied and partner nation surgeons to discuss medical capabilities in contested or non-permissive environments.

Added on February 16, 2023 News

IWC Supports the George C. Marshall Center’s Seminar on Irregular Warfare and Hybrid Threats

An IWC team, led by Dr. Kevin Stringer, Chair for Education, Dr. Rick Newton, Chair of Futures, and Kathryn Newton, Chief of Curriculum Design and Development, recently served as visiting faculty and academic support specialists during the George C. Marshall Center’s seminar on Irregular Warfare and Hybrid Threats in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, from Jan. 19 – Feb. 10.

Added on February 2, 2023 Insights , Publications

Blind Sided: A New Playbook for Information Operations

Last summer, a coordinated campaign by users on Facebook and Twitter targeted the Australian company Lynas. In 2021, Lynas—the largest rare earths mining and processing company outside China—finalized a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to build a processing facility for rare earth elements in Texas. A year later, numerous concerned Texas residents began to criticize the deal on social media, claiming that Lynas’s facility would create pollution, lead to toxic waste dumping, and harm the local population’s health. Their posts also denigrated Lynas’s environmental record and called for protests against the construction of this facility and a boycott of the company.