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Beyond Cuba
Contributor MOE GYO Moe Gyo is a writer and consultant working with ethnic organizations in Myanmar. Writing from the Thai–Myanmar borderlands, he draws on years of direct engagement with communities shaped by conflict and disrupted health systems. His work captures firsthand how resilience and informal support networks develop under prolonged irregular warfare. His writing has…
Revolutionary Warfare in Three Visions
Contributor MOE GYO Moe Gyo is a writer and consultant working with ethnic organizations in Myanmar. Writing from the Thai–Myanmar borderlands, he draws on years of direct engagement with communities shaped by conflict and informal governance under prolonged irregular warfare. His writing has appeared in the Small Wars Journal and the Journal of Special Operations…
Case Study: Guatemala
The Guatemalan decade of 1944 to 1954 sits in the small category of cases that the irregular warfare literature returns to over and over: a popular revolution, a reformist civilian government, an agrarian reform law, a foreign-owned corporation as the political fulcrum, and a covert action that ended the experiment. The ARIS case study Guatemala…
The Information Sphere Domain: Increasing Understanding and Cooperation
Contributor COL (Ret.) Patrick D. Allen, Ph.D. COL (Ret.) Patrick D. Allen, Ph.D. is Associate Editor of the Cyber Defense Review, the U.S. Army’s peer-reviewed journal on cyberspace operations. He is the primary author of Chapter 4, “Resistance Security in the Cyber Domain,” in the USASOC publication Resistance and the Cyber Domain, part of the…
Effective Counter Unconventional Warfare
The 2019 ARIS study Fostering Effective Counter Unconventional Warfare/Occupation set out to answer a question that the war in Ukraine, the 2014 annexation of Crimea, and the cyber assault on Estonia in 2007 had already made urgent: how can a state on Russia’s strategic periphery prepare to resist aggression that arrives below the threshold of…
Cuba Contingency Operation: Resistance Potential and Irregular Warfare Risk
The U.S. posture toward Cuba has shifted decisively in 2026. Executive Order 14404 of May 1 layered additional sanctions on entities tied to repression, building on Executive Order 14380 of January 29 that declared a national emergency and authorized tariffs against any state supplying oil to the island. The Department of State designated the military…
Africa’s Expanding Gray Zone
In January 2026, fighters affiliated with the Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP) struck the international airport in Niamey, Niger’s capital, marking the group’s first major attack on a hardened target near a Sahelian seat of government. Weeks later, Russia’s Defense Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov arrived in Niamey to discuss expanding Africa Corps operations, the latest chapter…
Easter Rising
On Easter Sunday 2026, thousands gathered outside Dublin’s General Post Office (GPO) as President Catherine Connolly laid a wreath marking the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. Captain Eva Houlihan read the 1916 Proclamation from the same steps where Pádraig Pearse first declared an Irish republic, and military aircraft traced overhead paths that symbolize a…