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Defeating Dialectic and Alchemic Warfare in Cognitive Operations: Reclaiming Rational Doctrine for Western Resilience

by Jonas Vesterberg
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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Cognitive Warfare, dialectic warfare, disintegration operations, information operations, NATO doctrine, political alchemy

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Beyond Lawrence: Respect, Legitimacy, and the Enduring Paradox of Indigenous Warfare

by David Maxwell
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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: assistance paradox, indigenous warfare, irregular warfare, Legitimacy, local ownership, military advising, Security Force Assistance, T.E. Lawrence

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Assessing Special Operations Forces (SOF) 2040 (Part 3): The Technology Layer – Cyber, Space, and Human-Machine Teaming in 2040

by Dr. David Dorsey, by David S. Maxwell, by Michael Ingerick, by Mick Crnkovich
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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Adaptability, Adaptive Performance, Assessment–Selection–and Qualification, Cognitive Warfare, Human Domain Advantage, Human-Machine Teaming, Hyper Enabled Operator, Indigenous Partnering, irregular warfare, Political Judgment, political warfare, SOF 2040, Special Operations Forces, Special Warfare, Technology Enablement, Unconventional Warfare

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Destruction is Not Strategy: Schelling and the Coercive Failures of the Iran War

by Yilma Makonnen
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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: 2026 Iran Conflict, coercive bargaining, compellence, Deterrence, Game theory, Hormuz, Straight of Hormuz, Thomas Schelling

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Is China a Peaked Power? And So What If It Is?

by Russell D. Howard
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07.24.2026 at 10:03am

Tags: Active Infiltration, Civilian Interventions, Coercive Signaling, Compound Security Threat (CST), Denial of Prosperity Operations, Gray Zone Warfare, multi-domain, narrative warfare, Peak China, Proxy and Surrogate Disruption, Thucydides Trap

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One Operator Cannot Resist the Surveillance Economy: UTS and the Human Domain in Irregular Warfare

by Christopher Moede
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07.24.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: digital technology, force protection, irregular warfare, operator, Signature Reduction

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Dialectic and Alchemic Warfare in Historic Cognitive Operations.

Defeating Dialectic and Alchemic Warfare in Cognitive Operations: Reclaiming Rational Doctrine for Western Resilience

by Jonas Vesterberg

|

07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Beyond Lawrence: Respect, Legitimacy, and the Enduring Paradox of Indigenous Warfare

by David Maxwell

|

07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Assessing Special Operations Forces (SOF) 2040 (Part 3): The Technology Layer – Cyber, Space, and Human-Machine Teaming in 2040

by Dr. David Dorsey, by David S. Maxwell, by Michael Ingerick, by Mick Crnkovich

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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Destruction is Not Strategy: Schelling and the Coercive Failures of the Iran War

by Yilma Makonnen

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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Is China a Peaked Power? And So What If It Is?

by Russell D. Howard

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07.24.2026 at 10:03am

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