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Operation Valkyrie
Eighty-two years ago, in July 1944, a decorated colonel walked into Adolf Hitler’s most secure headquarters carrying a briefcase, set it down a few feet from the man he intended to kill, and left the room. The charge detonated at 12:42 on 20 July 1944, the signal that was meant to launch Operation Valkyrie. Hitler…
Case Study: The Revolutionary War
In July 1776 the Continental Congress declared the independence of thirteen British colonies. The anniversary invites commemoration, but for students of irregular warfare the Revolutionary War insurgency invites something more useful: analysis. The ARIS case study The Patriot Insurgency (1763–1789), written by Robert R. Leonhard and a Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory team for US…
Võ Nguyên Giáp: The Architect of Operational People’s War
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…
Cyber Security Differences Between States and Resistance Movements
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…
What Is Non-Violent Resistance?
Nonviolent resistance, also called civil resistance, nonviolent action, or nonviolent struggle, is a method of waging conflict in which unarmed civilians use coordinated tactics to challenge power, resist oppression, and achieve political or social change without resorting to physical violence. These tactics range from symbolic protests and boycotts to mass non-cooperation, civil disobedience, and the…
State-Insurgent Strategic Competition for Governance
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…
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
More Than Morality: The Nonviolent Resistance Strategy The American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s remains the canonical study in nonviolent resistance strategy, showing how organized, disciplined contention can reshape political outcomes within a constitutional system. Under Martin Luther King Jr. and a broader coalition of organizers, the movement fused moral authority with…
Civilian Health Defense: A Strategic Framework for Resistance in Irregular Warfare
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…