129 Episodes

  1. Five Years of IWI: From Podcast to Platform

    Published: 5/30/2025
  2. The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War

    Published: 4/22/2025
  3. Plausible Deniability: Proxy Actors and the Hybrid Threat Ecosystem

    Published: 4/4/2025
  4. Ukraine's Hidden Front: The Strategic Impact of Resistance Operations

    Published: 3/14/2025
  5. The Fourth Age: The SOCOM Commander's Vision for the Future

    Published: 2/13/2025
  6. Training for Victory: Lessons for Security Force Assistance

    Published: 1/28/2025
  7. Theory vs. Practice: What is Irregular War?

    Published: 1/10/2025
  8. Below the Threshold: China's Strategy of Armed Coercion

    Published: 12/27/2024
  9. Culture, Access, Influence: The FAO Advantage in Irregular Warfare

    Published: 12/13/2024
  10. Sneaky Wars in the Indo-Pacific

    Published: 11/29/2024
  11. SOF’s Role in Conflict

    Published: 11/15/2024
  12. Adapting to the Unpredictable: Climate’s Impact on Irregular Warfare

    Published: 10/31/2024
  13. SOF and Influence Activities

    Published: 10/18/2024
  14. The Stability Instability Paradox: How Nuclear Weapons Incentivize Irregular Warfare

    Published: 10/4/2024
  15. DIU: Silicon Valley Meets the Modern Battlefield

    Published: 9/20/2024
  16. Afghanistan Three Years Later: Alliances and Rivalries

    Published: 9/6/2024
  17. SOF in Competition - Special Project

    Published: 8/23/2024
  18. Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 2: Arguments Against a Seventh Service

    Published: 8/9/2024
  19. Illicit Financing of Violence in Sudan

    Published: 7/26/2024
  20. Do we need a Cyber Force? Part 1: Arguments for a Seventh Service

    Published: 7/12/2024

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The Irregular Warfare Podcast explores an important component of war throughout history. Small wars, drone strikes, special operations forces, counterterrorism, proxies—this podcast covers the full range of topics related to irregular war and features in-depth conversations with guests from the military, academia, and the policy community. The podcast is a collaboration between the Modern War Institute at West Point and Princeton University’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project.