Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Trump ousts more Biden-era ambassadors 2. Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984) 3. Understanding Resistance and Mobilization in Mexico: Beyond the 2025 Gen-Z Contestation of Cartel-Led Governance 4. Beyond the U.S.-Israel MOU: The Case for a Strategic Partnership Agreement 5. How Beijing Built Arms Industry to … Read more
The Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa. Edited by Rohana Gunaratna and C. Nna-Okereke. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. ISBN: 978-3031899393. Maps. Sources Cited. Glossary. Notes. Index. $289.00 Pp. i-813. The strength of The Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa is its 25 African-based contributors. These experts live and study extremism, terrorism and insurgency in the African continent. Their local knowledge and … Read more
Abstract How large-scale interstate wars end has profound implications for political order, territorial control, and long-term stability. This article addresses: What pathways of war termination are plausible in the current phase of the Russia — Ukraine war, and what strategic risks or opportunities do they generate for Ukraine and the wider European security architecture? To answer this, the article develops … Read more
Abstract: This article argues that U.S. Special Operations Forces have experienced an atrophy in counteroffensive irregular warfare capacity amid the shift to strategic competition, leaving Western interests vulnerable to adversarial gray-zone strategies. It advances signature reduction—the deliberate management of physical and digital detectability—as a human-centered doctrine capable of restoring freedom of maneuver, renewing Special Operations Forces (SOF) heritage competencies, and … Read more
Introduction On August 13, 2025, the Prime Minister of Pakistan announced the establishment of a new Army Rocket Force Command (ARFC). This directive would possess contemporary technology and the capability to engage the adversary from all directions. There is no revealed public information regarding the ARFC structure, size, or mission. The official statement just discusses that the focus will be … Read more
On 15 November 2025, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Mexico City[1] to protest cartel violence and government corruption, resulting in over 100 injuries, primarily among police officers. Several prominent media outlets attributed[2] these actions to domestic Gen-Z tied to global trends; meanwhile, the Mexican government claimed that right-wing political groups organized the protests, but the evidence contradicts … Read more
STAGES OF SUBVERSION: 1) DEMORALIZATION 2) DESTABILIZATION 3) CRISIS 4) “NORMALIZATION” The above video presents an interview with Yuri Bezmenov, a former USSR operative who defected to the West. He describes methods used to influence and destabilize societies from within. He explains a sequence of systemic shifts designed to erode societal cohesion over time, focusing on information saturation, cultural … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. SOF News: Green Beret now ASD SO/LIC 2. U.S. Seizes Second Oil Tanker Near Venezuela 3. U.S. Oil Blockade of Venezuela Pushes Cuba Toward Collapse 4. Strikes on Islamic State Pound a Foe the U.S. Once Thought Defeated 5. How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA 6. This Is … Read more
Access the full SOF News article HERE: Thanks to Jon Friberg for putting this together. The Honorable Mr. Anderson’s opening statement is here: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/anderson_testimony2.pdf His 30 page response to the Senate’s advanced questions is here: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/anderson_apqs.pdf Although many of the questions and answers are pro forma he does offer a number of important insights into his vision and philosophy. He covers a … Read more
For decades, nuclear deterrence in the Middle East has been discussed terrestrially. It has focused on missile ranges, underground facilities, and escalations in the theatre. However, the international community must both strategically and legislatively understand the transformation of Israel’s nuclear-capable submarine fleet – which creates a power vacuum that Israel has usurped via a maritime deterrent – that Iran (the … Read more
See this article by Joseph Siemandel (Joint Force Headquarters – Washington National Guard) to learn more about the symposium. We are very grateful for all of Dr. Fox’s hard work as Managing Editor at SWJ. When he’s not busy working on SWJ, he spends his time reading, writing, sharing his vast experience and knowledge with others, spending time with family, and … Read more
[McLean, VA] — “At just 16 years old, Owen Chester Singer, son of Arizona State University Master of Global Security Professor Dr. Peter Singer, is taking on breast cancer not with a medical degree, but with a powerful idea born from his own family’s battle. Inspired by his mother’s fight with multiple rounds of breast cancer, Owen has launched … Read more
December 17, 2025- This conversation is published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s “Overheard Podcast” Host: Philip Wasielewski Featuring: Mark Grdovic Col. (Ret.) David Maxwell, Editor-at-Large of Small Wars Journal, provided the following commentary about this podcast: Few know doctrine or how to think about doctrine as well as Mark Grdovic. I would just add my fundamental view (synthesized with … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. American special operations forces get new civilian overseer 2. MI6 chief warns Britain is in new era of ‘information warfare’ 3. China Is Feeling Strong and Senses an American Retreat 4. Space Force Special Operations Command? Congress has questions, too 5. Irregular warfare threats during multi-domain operations in the Indo-Pacific region topic … Read more
Sam Woolston’s InSight Crime analysis, “How Mexico’s Fuel Theft Market Went Transnational,” shows how what began as localized pipeline tapping has evolved into a cross-border illicit energy economy that now reaches deep into the U.S. energy and financial systems. Major criminal groups have shifted from stealing fuel from Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) infrastructure to large-scale smuggling of U.S. fuel into Mexico. … Read more
It was surprising to see the Ukrainian implementation of European Union rules on religious tolerance and protection of linguistic minorities as a piece of the proposed peace deal presented on November 19, 2025. Not only does the Ukrainian Constitution already protect “all indigenous peoples and national minorities”, but Ukraine already adopted the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages about … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Trump Tackles Concerns Over Taiwan Strategy With Massive Weapons Deal 2. Believe it or not, the US doesn’t have an Indo-Pacific warfighting HQ | The Strategist 3. Trump Admin to Radically Reshape Military: Report 4. Today’s Opium Wars: The Unrestricted Warfare Playbook in the U.S. Illicit Drug Market 5. Understanding Irregular Warfare … Read more
Mark Grdovic’s analysis, “Breaking the Glass Ceiling of Irregular Warfare,” argues that irregular warfare keeps cycling through predictable “boom-and-bust” phases inside the U.S. military. The problem isn’t that IW is unimportant. It’s that the Department repeatedly tries to solve a foundational question—what IW is and why it matters—with strongly worded documents, shifting labels, and catch-all activity lists. None of it … Read more
If you are interested in reading about the origin story of America’s irregular warfare ethos, then take a look at “The Indian Scouts that forged the legacy of American Special Forces” by Daniel Tobias Flint, a We Are The Mighty history essay. Long before “special operations” was a formal label, the U.S. Army was already relying on Native American scouts … Read more
The long-awaited Gaza cease-fire represents great hope but has left Hamas armed, rejecting disarmament, and engaging in a low-intensity civil war which it appears to be winning. If Hamas does not agree to disarm and exit Gazan politics – something Hamas has rejected repeatedly – Israel may renew its war to eliminate Hamas. To date, Israel’s military campaign has failed … Read more