Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University

Last week, the war in Ukraine officially surpassed the first World War in duration. 1,569 days. Constant Méheut, writing with The New York Times, plays with the parallel between the two wars.

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Ukrainian drones hit Moscow earlier today, closing the capital’s airports, ring road, and damaging an oil refinery in the city’s outskirts. Paul Sonne and Nataliya Vasilyeva of the New York Times report that the att...

Read the full story here: Army Creates New Air and Missile Defense MOS – AUSA

The Association of the United States Army, speaking with Army spokesman Maj. Travis Shaw, reports that the Army will combine the

This article examines the evolution of Lebanese Hezbollah’s financial activities in Latin America, with particular focus on an elaborate sanctions-evasion scheme involving the exchange of Iranian oil for Venezuelan gold. Drawing on recent United States Department of the Treasury designations and press reporting, it argues th...

This article examines how maritime swarm tactics enable weak actors to transform global energy chokepoints into strategic battlefields. By leveraging numbers, speed, and dispersion, asymmetric forces—most notably the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN)—can overwhelm conventional naval defenses and target vulnerabl...