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

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 ...

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

Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy: ...

This article examines how the rapid spread of aerial, surface, and subsurface uncrewed systems across the Pacific is creating new risks of miscalculation, particularly around Taiwan. It argues that ...

Pakistan now sits first on the Global Terrorism Index while global terrorism falls. That divergence is the work of two provinces rather than stronger militants: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...

Why did the United Arab Emirates, despite coming under sustained Iranian missile and drone attacks, refrain from becoming an overt belligerent in the recent Iran war? This article argues that the ...

Three observations should be the focal point for thinking about how the United States will fight future conflicts beyond 2030: Military operations will be entirely controlled by artificial ...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is hell-bent on annexing Taiwan and asserting control over the sovereign territory of its neighbors throughout the First Island Chain. To do this, China is engaged ...

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 ...

The cognitive warfare tools demonstrated in Ukraine and Iran are not exclusively a high-intensity conflict problem. They are reshaping the gray zone as well, and the adversaries employing them below ...