Army University Press and the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School seek articles on irregular warfare from academia and the field for a collaborative special edition of Military Review. We invite you to write on one of the research questions below, current and historical case studies, or other irregular warfare-relevant topics to expand understanding of irregular warfare as a phenomenon or tool of action.
“Irregular Warfare (IW) is a form of warfare where states and non-state actors campaign to assure or coerce state or other groups through indirect, non-attributable, or asymmetric activities, either as the primary approach or in concert with conventional warfare.”
—Joint Publication 1, Joint Warfighting, vol. 1 (2023)
Irregular Warfare (IW) is the “overt, clandestine, and covert employment of military and non-military capabilities across multiple domains by state and non-state actors through methods other than military domination of an adversary, either as the primary approach or in concert with conventional warfare.”
—Field Manual 3-0, Operations (2022)
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Examine the role of policy, doctrine, training, and education in understanding and operationalizing irregular warfare
- Explore case studies of recent irregular warfare challenges to gain insights into contemporary issues and strategies
- Consider future trends and the effects of the digital age on the irregular warfare landscape
- Space and cyber in irregular warfare
- Civil-military relations and irregular warfare
- Special operations, conventional, and interagency convergence in irregular warfare
- Military information support operations: opportunities and obstacles in irregular warfare employment
- Identifying gaps and what is needed for the future irregular warfare fight and competition
- Ethical and legal considerations in irregular warfare: rules, norms, and human rights
- Information advantage in irregular warfare
- Translating human advantage to the physical dimension
- Stability operations: the challenge of keeping the peace in an irregular warfare context
- Proxy warfare: how state and nonstate actors use proxies in irregular warfare
- The logistics of irregular warfare: resourcing and sustaining
- Austere medicine: keeping the force in the fight in irregular warfare settings
Please send submissions to usasoc.milreview.submissions.shdmbx@socom.mil.
Articles should be prepared in accordance with the Military Review submission guide at https://www.armyupress. army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/MR-Article-Submission-Guide/.