764 and similar online extremist groups often use satanic symbols and materials from neo-Nazi movements, such as the Order of Nine Angles (09A). (CBC photo) This CBC news update reports that Canada is the first country to formally list the online extremist network “764” as a terrorist entity, alongside Maniac Murder Cult, Terrorgram Collective, and Islamic State–Mozambique. The Canadian government … Read more
Go to this link to see the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) call for papers. The UNHRC working group on the use of mercenaries is collecting evidence on how today’s “technology stack”—from AI and synthetic media to drones, commercial geospatial services, cloud hosting, data brokerage, and crypto-financing—is reshaping mercenary and private military/security activity. They’re looking for concrete inputs, such as … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Pentagon formalizes conventional forces’ role in irregular warfare, but will it stick? 2. US National Retreat Strategy leaves Asia to manage consequences 3. How a U.S. admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors 4. U.S. Steps Up Campaign Against Maduro in Seizing Tanker Off Venezuela 5. U.S. Flies Bombers in High-Profile … Read more
The Chief of Staff of the Army’s Recommended Articles and the Harding Project are complementary engines driving the Army profession’s intellectual readiness. The CSA Recommended Articles list curates timely, operationally focused writing from across the force—on mission command, land operations in the Indo-Pacific, leadership, and more—giving leaders at every echelon a ready-made reading program to sharpen their warfighting mindset. The … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. The Pentagon Just Issued New Guidance on Irregular Warfare: What Does It Say and Why Should You Care? 2. Scowcroft Strategy Scorecard: Grading Trump’s second National Security Strategy 3. Hegseth Introduces Department to New AI Tool 4. Why Russia Loves the New US National Security Strategy 5. Inside Ukraine’s Daring ‘Operation … Read more
In the age of low-cost, long-range one-way-attack drones (OWA), stealthy cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and hypersonic weapons, the role of defensive operations has changed. As military leaders look to address these challenges, the question becomes: how do we provide effective air and missile defense (AMD)? No service branch can do it alone. The only effective and actionable plan to provide … Read more
The fusion of legitimate state power and organized criminal activity in the maritime domain creates a potent blend of hybrid threat activity and irregular warfare challenges that is as dangerous for those targeted as it is deniable for those who undertake it. In the liminal space between war and peace, these activities challenge the rules-based international system in ways engineered … Read more
Check out this article from the Special Warfare Journal, “Austere Resuscitative and Surgical Care Teams: Supporting Far-Forward Trauma Care on the Future Battlefield.” The authors make a compelling case for Austere Resuscitative and Surgical Care (ARSC) teams—small, mobile surgical elements that bridge gaps in roles of care—that will be indispensable in future large-scale combat operations, especially when evacuation is delayed, … Read more
Strategic depth has traditionally described a state’s ability to trade space for time—to absorb, adapt, and recover before vital centers are threatened. Strategic depth may be defined as the spatial, temporal, and cognitive distance that enables a nation or commander to absorb shocks, mobilize, and adapt before decisive outcomes occur. It represents the freedom to think and act over time, … Read more
Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of the Irregular Warfare Initiative as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on November 10, 2025 and is available here. On September 29, 2025, the Pentagon released a new Department of Defense Instruction (DODI), numbered 3000.07 and titled “Irregular Warfare.”1 Clocking in at 32 pages … Read more
For the past sixty years, international trade bans have been the preferred method to deter exploitation of endangered species. But how effective are these trade bans in protecting species that are worth more than cocaine on the black market? Instead of focusing on limiting the supply of luxury seafood and wildlife items, the international community may fare better focusing on … Read more
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of Dr. Max G. Manwaring who left us at 92 years of age earlier this year. Dr. Manwaring was the past General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and a long time Fellow with Small Wars … Read more
Click here to register for this online only event! The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security invites you to join us on Zoom on December 10th at 7 pm ET as we examine the current tensions between the United States and Latin America. Illegal immigration and large-scale deportations, illicit drug smuggling, lethal US military attacks on alleged drug smuggling boats, … Read more
Find the National Security Strategy of the United States of America here. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction – What Is American Strategy? 1 1. How American “Strategy” Went Astray 1 2. President Trump’s Necessary, Welcome Correction II. What Should the United States Want? 1. What Do We Want Overall? 2. What Do We Want In and From the World? III. … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. (Fact Sheet)THE FY26 NDAA: IMPLEMENTING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH AGENDA 2. Trump’s National-Security Strategy Softens Language on China 3. Opinion | Introducing the ‘Trump Corollary’ 4. Congress Moves to Restrain Trump in Annual Defense Policy Bill 5. Trump Backs Away From Pledge to Release Boat-Strike Video 6. A Data-Centric Analysis of the … Read more
Read Amos Fox’s article at the Military Review, “The Russia-Ukraine War: It Takes a Land Force to Defeat a Land Force”! Fox argues that deep-sensing platforms, drones, and precision fires are valuable enablers but are not redefining the overall character of modern war. Stripped of hype, they amount to recurring “attacks from above,” and Western hopes that such standoff approaches … Read more
Access SOF News HERE. Weekly Drone Update – Dec 9, 2025 December 9, 2025 John Friberg Drones 0 Below the reader will find recent news about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are used in conflicts (Ukraine, Africa, etc.), new developments in drone use, and training by military units for using drones during combat operations. Curated articles on the topics below are provided: Featured … Read more
Take a look at Andrew Loftesnes and Robert Kremzner’s New Lines Institute article, “How Local Criminals Help Russia Fight a Gray Zone War in Europe.” The authors examine how Moscow increasingly outsources arson, bombings, sabotage, and even assassinations to local petty criminals and occasionally hate groups to impose costs while maintaining plausible deniability and staying below the threshold of open … Read more
December 4, 2025 •Press Release Today, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the Select Committee on China introduced a resolution in honor of imprisoned pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai. The resolution will recognize December 8, 2025—his 78th birthday—as Jimmy Lai Day. In addition to this, the resolution affirms the support for Lai in Congress, calls on … Read more
SOFX recently published a three-part series by Erik Kramer on the Ukraine War’s implications for the future of ground combat and what those lessons reveal about U.S. Army readiness. The series argues that Ukraine is less a one-off anomaly and more a high-fidelity preview of the conditions U.S. forces could face against a near-peer—dense drone surveillance, layered obstacles, relentless fires, … Read more