Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University

Introduction

This article was originally published with the Information Professionals Association’s blog in June 2026. It is the first in a series of articles on how populations can be decisive enablers for milita...

Abstract

The United States (US) military presence in East Africa is well positioned to help defend the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but its basing arrangements and host-country restrictions were designed primarily for counterterrorism rather than a maritime confrontation with Yemen’s Iran-backed political-military movement Ansar Allah, better...

The study of cognitive warfare has entered a period of remarkable conceptual productivity. New frameworks, new taxonomies, and new categories continue to emerge, each seeking to capture a previously overlooked dimension of conflict.

Increasingly, however, the field also appears willing to entertain concepts that are highly speculative, only loosely connected to observa...

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Mateship Under Pressure 10 September 2026 By Paul Gillikin The USMC, Australia, and the Demands of Strategic Denial

Current wars in Europe and the Middle East matter, but the central pac...

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