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The Perfect Storm: El Niño, Food Insecurity, and the Risk of Political Instability: Getting Left of the Crisis Through Food-Security Early Warning

By Nicholas Cassell
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10.14.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: agriculture, Civil Affairs, Climate security, displacement, El Niño, Famine, food insecurity, humanitarian aid, Security Studies

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Counter-Drone Weapons Have Arrived

By Daniel Weiss
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10.14.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: autonomous systems, counter uas, directed energy weapons, drone warfare, drones, FPV drones

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From Transformation to Containment: The Iran War’s Lesson for Campaign Design

By Lance Gordon
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10.13.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: campaign design, containment strategy, Economic Warfare, Iran, IRGC, Strait of Hormuz, US military strategy

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Doors of Perception: The Synergy Between Cognitive Warfare and Human Security

By Toby Fenton
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10.13.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Civil-Military Operations, Cognitive Warfare, Disinformation, Human Security, Hybrid Threats, information warfare, national security, NATO doctrine, Psychological Warfare, Societal Resilience, threat perception

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Does the End of the SDF End Turkey’s Syria Problem?

By Efecan Özdem
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10.12.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Kurds, PKK, Syrian Civil War, Syrian Democratic Forces, Turkey

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Beyond Relative Superiority: Updating McRaven’s Principles of Special Operations for the Age of Drones, AI, and Persistent Surveillance

By Sandor Fabian
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10.09.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Irregular Warfare; IW, McRaven, NATO, Special Operations Forces, Strategic Adaptation

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10/14/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

By David Maxwell

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10.14.2026 at 07:00pm

The Perfect Storm: El Niño, Food Insecurity, and the Risk of Political Instability: Getting Left of the Crisis Through Food-Security Early Warning

By Nicholas Cassell

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10.14.2026 at 06:00am

Soldiers work atop an M-LIDS-equipped armored vehicle mounted with a counter-drone sensor and weapon turret in a desert training exercise, with a second equipped vehicle in the background

Counter-Drone Weapons Have Arrived

By Daniel Weiss

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10.14.2026 at 06:00am

Operation High Eagle: Combatting Cartel Drones at the Mexico-U.S. border

By SWJ Staff

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10.13.2026 at 08:23pm

10/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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