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Editorial Team | The Resistance Hub

The Resistance Hub publishes doctrine, analysis and field references on irregular warfare, resistance movements, sabotage and resilience. This page states who produces that work, what each person brings to it, and how bylines are assigned. It is the record we expect readers, editors and researchers to check before citing us.

Editorial Leadership

Timothy Robert Brown

Lead Editor
RoleLead Editor, The Resistance Hub. In-house author and the editor accountable for material published under the staff byline.
ExpertiseIrregular warfare, resistance movements, and the security of critical infrastructure.
CredentialsTwo decades of professional experience in military special operations, including direct involvement in supporting and countering resistance movements in both peacetime and war. Editor at Distillery Press, where he has overseen multiple studies and books that distill security concepts for wider audiences. Publications are listed on his Amazon author store. He writes under a pen name for professional security and privacy.
Selected work on this siteThe Knight’s Dilemma: Evolution of Elite Warfare
UAS Are Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary, for U.S. Warfare
Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Contributors

Contributors write in their own name and their own voice. Their pieces are published under the staff account for operational reasons, and each one carries a contributor card naming the author at the head of the article.

COL (Ret.) Patrick D. Allen, Ph.D.

Contributor
ExpertiseCyberspace operations, the information environment as a warfighting domain, and cyber security for resistance networks.
CredentialsAssociate Editor of the Cyber Defense Review, the U.S. Army’s peer-reviewed journal on cyberspace operations. Primary author of Chapter 4, Resistance Security in the Cyber Domain, in the USASOC publication Resistance and the Cyber Domain, part of the Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) series. That chapter was subsequently used as course material at the National Defense University.
Work on this siteCyber Security Differences Between States and Resistance Movements
The Information Sphere Domain: Increasing Understanding and Cooperation
ARIS: Resistance and the Cyber Domain

Moe Gyo

Contributor
ExpertiseMyanmar conflict dynamics, insurgent governance, and civil-military affairs in the Thai-Myanmar borderlands.
CredentialsA writer and consultant working with ethnic organizations in Myanmar, writing from the Thai-Myanmar borderlands and drawing on years of direct engagement with communities shaped by conflict and disrupted health systems. His writing has appeared in Small Wars Journal and the Journal of Special Operations Medicine, among others.
Selected work on this siteKaren National Union: A Case Study
Insurgent Governance and Civil Affairs: The Karen National Union
State and Insurgent Strategic Competition for Governance
Civilian Health Defense: A Strategic Framework for Resistance
Vo Nguyen Giap

Iliana Drakonis

Contributor
ExpertisePsychological resilience, the psychology of survival, and the social cost of endurance in small nations under sustained pressure.
CredentialsA child of war and later a participant in it. She writes from direct experience of conflict, under a pen name, to give voice to the Slavic communities that grew up amid war and to those still living with its echoes.
Work on this sitePsychological Resilience of Small Nations
The Quiet Weapon of Survival

Bylines and Attribution

Three byline forms appear on this site, and each one means something specific.

A named contributor byline means the person named wrote the piece. Their contributor card sits at the head of the article. Responsibility for the argument is theirs, and responsibility for publishing it is ours.

A pen name, such as Timothy Robert Brown or Iliana Drakonis, identifies a consistent single author writing under a protected identity. Pen names are used for professional security and privacy, a common and accepted practice in publishing. The person behind a pen name does not change between articles.

The Resistance Hub Staff is used on longform or collaborative pieces where contributions extend beyond a single author, and on work where AI provided substantial drafting support. That support is directed by human editors through structured prompts and anchored in a defined thesis and structure. Because initial drafting was assisted by AI, no single human author takes personal credit, but the thesis, structure, validation and editing were done by a human editor. Final responsibility for accuracy, framing and publication always rests with the editorial team.

For the full policy on AI use, source material and public-domain archives, see the editorial policy.

Editorial Standards

Transparency

Sources are cited directly in the text or in a references section. We show our work.

Accountability

All content undergoes editorial review before publication. No piece goes live without it.

Neutrality

We do not promote governments, parties, or movements. Our role is limited to analysis.

Corrections are made on the page itself and dated. Where a correction changes the argument of a piece rather than a detail, the change is stated in an update note at the top of the article.

Contact the Editorial Team

Questions about content, sourcing, corrections or editorial standards go to contact@theresistancehub.com. Pitches from practitioners and researchers are welcome at the same address.

Email the editors

Further reading: About The Resistance Hub, the editorial policy, and the irregular warfare and resistance glossary.