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Australia is engaged in strategic competition with autocratic regimes, yet its defense policy remains disproportionately oriented toward conventional conflict. This paper argues that proxy...
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Network engagement—whether targeting adversaries or strengthening partners—is central to military operations. Assessing whether networks can endure disruption or collapse under pressure is vital for...
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The U.S. Department of War’s Joint Planning Process (JPP), optimized for tame, geographically bounded, and domain-specific problems, repeatedly falters against today’s wicked security challenges....
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This paper posits that norm entrepreneurship is a critical component of building partner capacity in fragile states because, without the adoption of U.S. military...
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Special air operations trace their origins to the special-duties units of the First World War—an often overlooked aspect of the Great War. At the...
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This article introduces the concept of proxy battlespaces to explain Ukraine’s deployment of Special Operations Forces (SOF) in Sudan, Syria, and Mali. At a...
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This article examines how irregular warfare in the maritime domain (IW-M) can strengthen national defense strategies for smaller states confronting more powerful naval adversaries....
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The character of warfare is ever-changing, while terrain remains static. Nowhere is this more evident than in the unforgiving mountains of Yemen’s highlands. The...
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This paper examines the evolving dynamics of cross-strait relations through the lens of securitization theory, focusing on China’s strategic deployment of what it calls...
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This article evaluates Israel’s counterterrorism campaign in Gaza through strategic, ethical, and normative lenses. While the military has achieved tactical successes—such as dismantling Hamas...