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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 Partisans and Digital Sabotage
In January 2022, a small group of anonymous Belarusian hackers infiltrated the computer systems of Belarusian Railways and forced the network to revert to paper-based operations. The target was not the railway itself but the Russian military equipment flowing through Belarus toward Ukraine’s northern border in preparation for what Moscow was still calling joint military…
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…
State—Insurgent Strategic Competition for Governance: PART II: The Market Forces of 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…
Lithuania Uncovers GRU-Linked Sabotage Cell
VILNIUS. In a striking public attribution on 16 January 2026, Lithuanian authorities said they have charged six foreign nationals in connection with a Russian military intelligence-linked sabotage campaign targeting infrastructure connected to European security and Ukraine support. This case, and related incidents from Poland to the Baltic Sea, illustrates a pattern of hybrid sabotage that…
Guinea-Bissau: Anatomy of a Successful Coup
// Updated August 2026 This article originally reported the Guinea-Bissau coup of 26 November 2025 as a failed attempt. That was wrong, and the sections below have been rewritten. The coup succeeded. President Umaro Sissoco Embaló was detained at his office, flown to Senegal on 27 November and later relocated to the Republic of the…
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…
The Power of Symbols: Why Iconography Matters in Resistance Movements
In every uprising, protest, or revolution, some moments transcend words. A lone figure with a raised fist. A sea of masked faces under glowing streetlights. A canopy of umbrellas repelling tear gas. These images don’t document. They define. They are the language of resistance, and like any language, they are strategic, deliberate, and powerful. For…