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

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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 ...

States of Exception: Criminal Armed Groups and the Evolution of South American Policing Small Wars Journal–El Centro scholars ...

High Powered Microwaves (HPM) have emerged as the primary EMP weapon nations are pursuing to counter drones due to their effectiveness and practically infinite magazine capacity. Once these systems ...

JSOU AY27 Call for Special Operations Papers on modern warfare: targeting, stand-in forces, recruiting & autonomy. Winners at ...

Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine demonstrated how a relatively simple campaign of deception and ambiguity could exploit the deliberate decision-making process of liberal democracies, ...

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 ...

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

(Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of essays coordinated with the National Center for Narrative Intelligence (NCNI). (https ...

In my professional career, I have spent years studying how leverage, brinksmanship, and coercive pressure shape high-stakes business acquisition transactions. One of the more aggressive tactics ...

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 ...