The newly established Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) is scheduled to host our first IW Medical Resiliency Wargame (Aug. 14-16) & IW Logistics Resiliency Working Group (Aug. 16-18) in Bethesda, MD. “As the Center continues to grow and evolve, we want to ensure our partnerships, educational opportunities, resources and overall outreach continues to expand as well,” said Lori Leffler, IWC Deputy […]
The newly established Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) hosted its inaugural IWC Colloquium event, July 27-28, 2023, at the AMA Conference Center in Arlington, VA. “This event stems from our University Day event back in April and the possibility of hosting a research conference, which developed into a smaller colloquium for scholars to highlight the work that they are doing and […]
The newly established Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) is scheduled to host its first IWC Colloquium event, July 27-28, 2023, in Arlington, VA. The event encompasses months of reviewing submissions from a variety of scholars and narrowing down finalists during the selection and nomination process. Submissions from each participant included a 250-word maximum description of the scholars’ research and how it […]
On the morning of 22 May, 2023, an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon surfaced online and spread like wildfire throughout social media. Multiple news sources reported and shared the AI-generated image on their platforms. As a result, markets responded to the reports and image, and the S&P 500 index fell in just minutes after its reporting, causing a $500 billion market cap swing, even though this image was quickly proven as fake.
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The newly established Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) collaborated with the West Virgina National Guard (WVNG) to host Ridge Runner IWX (23-01) Distinguished Visitor Day on June 7, 2023, at Camp Dawson, Kingwood, West Virgina, to provide allies and partners with an opportunity to learn more about the Ridge Runner exercise and the Center’s essential partnership with the WVNG. “Having this […]
Welcome to the monthly newsletter for the IWC. This newsletter is designed to keep our community up-to-date on the latest news and events happening within the organization. Please click here or on the image below to open the newsletter PDF:
The newly established Irregular Warfare Center recently released its IW Medical Resiliency Workgroup Report from the Center’s first hosted event, the IW Medical Resiliency Workgroup Conference, which took place Feb. 22-24, 2023, in Bethesda, Md. The IWC, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, and the Center for Global Health Engagement from the Uniformed Services University of the Health […]
The era of examining transnational organized crime (TOC) separately from geopolitical discussions is over. TOC is a significant destabilizing force for countries and regions across the globe. Additionally, the connection of TOC groups to state officials and political figures demonstrates that TOC is part of a growing interconnected constellation of important issues surrounding war, conflict, and states. Illicit economies conducted by TOC groups have been associated with various regional conflicts that also have global impacts.
The Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) is committed to enhancing irregular warfare (IW) knowledge through academic partnerships to facilitate research on IW and strategic competition and continue to engage with U.S. and international universities. The IWC – a component of the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation University – is pleased to invite nominations for participation in the inaugural Irregular Warfare Colloquium, to […]