Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. The Real Lesson of the Iran War: When ...

David Maxwell of Small Wars Journal discussed U.S.–North Korea negotiations with Voice of America–Korea on October 8, 2026.

Lawrence E. Cline, PhD, is a part-time faculty member with Colorado State University Global and is the book review editor for Small Wars & Insurgencies. He is a retired US Army military intelligence ...

Nysret Buzhala is a defense and security professional with extensive experience in Special Operations, strategic and operational planning, irregular warfare, international military cooperation, and ...

Matt Armstrong earned a Ph.D. from King’s College London in Defence Studies. His thesis examined the U.S. response to Soviet political warfare in the early Cold War. A former Governor of the ...

Submit to the InterAgency Journal Fall 2026 call for papers on the Iran conflict, ethical leadership, and interagency cooperation.

This paper focuses on how the Iran war consequences combine with those of El Niño, triggering a “hypersiege” situation that engulfs societies all around the world. This climate-geopolitics nexus ...

In the time it takes Washington to schedule an interagency meeting, an adversary can frame an incident for half the world. That is the central problem of cognitive warfare. Meaning now hardens into ...

Carl von Clausewitz outpaces every contemporary from Napoleon and Jomini to Scharnhorst and Wellington as the premier military theorist of the modern age. His masterwork, On War, published ...

Cognitive warfare is frequently referred to as a derivative of influence, information, or emerging technologies. This essay, instead, posits that one of its most destabilizing aspects, often an ...

The world has gone digital. When wearable Strava fitness trackers exposed the location of previously undisclosed U.S. special operations forces operating locations in Syria in 2018, policies were ...

The U.S. Sea Services – comprising the Navy, Coast Guard, and Military Sealift Command – face a mounting crisis born of decades of deferred maintenance, shrinking fleet size, and aging infrastructure.