🎯 The Irregular Warfare Initiative (IWI) Editorial Team is proud to launch a new series featuring leading thinkers in the irregular warfare community critically engaging with recent IW-related publications. 📚 Curated by IWI editors Barbara Elias and Lewis Fraser, this series goes beyond traditional book reviews. Contributors have been encouraged to challenge ideas, draw connections to their own expertise, and explore how the works shape broader debates in the field. ♟️We are excited to kick off the series with a piece by Jake Shapiro, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and co-founder of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project. He also authored Small Wars, Big Data. A distinguished scholar and veteran, Shapiro brings deep field experience and academic rigor to his analysis of Winning Without Fighting: Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition in the 21st Century by Rebecca Patterson, Susan Bryant, Ken Gleiman, and Mark Troutman. 🔗 Read the full article here: https://irregularwarfare.org/articles/winning-without-fighting-resilience-as-national-security-imperative/ #NationalSecurity | #IrregularWarfare | #Resilience | #StrategicCompetition (fb)

🐉 Hiding inside the PRC’s panda suit is a dragon seeking to prey on the Central Region as a core political and economic axis for its neocolonial aspirations. In the Middle East & Central Asia, #irregularwarfare is how to push back. https://t.co/n6QzZRpWBs @smallwars (tw)