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22 days ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: The emerging armamentarium of cognitive warfare with Dr. James Giordano (Video) | Cognitive Security Institute Talks #19 In this clip from #SWJTheDiscourse, Dr. James Giordano (Institute for National Strategic Studies (@INSSatNDU), National Defense University) explores how advances in #neuroscience, #biotechnology, and converging technologies are reshaping the character of conflict. 🧠 Dr. Giordano asserts that emerging capabilities enable more precise, scalable, and integrated effects on human performance and decision-making. This clip highlights: 🧪 🦠 The evolution from conventional chemical and biological agents toward increasingly sophisticated neurobiological and cognitive effects. 🧬 🤖 The convergence of neuroscience, biotechnology, #ArtificialIntelligence, and information systems as a new force multiplier. 👁️ 🤝 The growing importance of the #HumanDomain, where #perception, #judgment, #trust, and decision-making become operational objectives. 🪖 💭 Why military and national security professionals must think beyond kinetic effects to understand how adversaries may seek to influence cognition before, during, and after conflict. These themes resonate across today's strategic environment. Whether examining Russian information confrontation, Chinese cognitive warfare concepts, #InfluenceOperations by state and non-state actors, or the broader competition for narrative advantage, the cognitive dimension is a central component of both irregular and conventional warfare. Success increasingly depends on shaping how individuals and societies perceive reality, assess risk, and make decisions. As we continue to integrate cyber, information, electromagnetic, and biological capabilities, understanding #cognition as an operational domain is becoming essential for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars alike. 📺 Watch the full lecture and view the presentation slides in #SWJTheDiscourse: https://t.co/4vOpGLgrXg 📖 Read "Cognitive Warfare at the Crossroads: Defining and Developing Capabilities" by Dr. Robert Schmidle and Dr. James Giordano: https://t.co/jlk1BqQCKd #SmallWarsJournal #CognitiveSecurity #CognitiveWarfare #IrregularWarfare #InformationWarfare #IWar #NationalSecurity #Biodeterrence #Deterrence #Bioeconomy #EmergingTechnology #GrayZone #StrategicCompetition #Cybernetics #Neuroweapons #SynBio @Future_of_War @ASU @SecWar @DeptofWar

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4 months ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: Target Intelligence: #PSYOP with Shawn Ryan Ep. 2: The Smoke Filled Room | @ThisIsIRONCLAD & The @ShawnRyanShow (@ShawnRyan762) "Traditional PSYOPs try to affect what people think. But, a new kind of warfare – #CognitiveWarfare – aims to change how people think. In this chapter, experts like Bill Gertz explain how #China is using apps like #TikTok to slowly damage users’ cognition and create an environment where truth and fiction become indistinguishable. And Chase Hughes breaks down the psychological experiment that makes it possible." 📖 Browse the growing SWJ Cognitive Warfare Archives: https://t.co/f8XE2uYuwV ✍ Send us your cognitive warfare analyses: https://t.co/uutAv6M6v8 📺 Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/auS7EhENez #UnrestrictedWarfare #PsychologicalWarfare #CogWar #Cybernetics #IWar #InformationWarfare #WeaponizedNarratives #InfluenceOperations #PsychologicalOperations #PsyWar #SilentWeaponsForQuietWars #DirectedEnergyWeapons #Neuroweapons

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5 months ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: Rio’s bloodiest day: the untold story of Brazil’s most deadly police raid Rio’s Bloodiest Day is an impressively detailed report by The Guardian that reconstructs a 17-hour police operation in Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo da Penha that left 122 people dead, including five officers, raising questions about the legality and proportionality of lethal force against Rio’s gangs. Through interviews with dozens of residents, police commanders, lawyers, and bereaved families, the report traces how a warrant-based operation targeting the Red Command gang escalated into a sprawling urban battle across favela streets. https://t.co/AXY6c4AwWs #SWJElCentro #RiodeJaneiro #RedCommandGang #RedCommand

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📖Read "Cognitive Warfare to Dominate and Redefine Adversary Realities: Implications for U.S. Special Operations Forces" by Dr. Jeremiah “Lumpy” Lumbaca, PhD (@LumpyAsia) for Joint Special Operations University (@THINKJSOU) Press! https://t.co/Zl757CJGYH #SWJTheDiscourse

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5 months ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: HEARING: Lies, Lawfare, and Leverage: The CCP’s Gaslighting and Manipulation to Marginalize Taiwan (2/11/26) | Select Committee on China (@ChinaSelect) This clip exhibits Mr. Julian Ku's testimony on #China's coercion of #Taiwan. SWJ has produced great scholarship on Beijing's steady changing of the status quo in Taiwan and on the international stage. Be sure to browse the growing Chinese #Lawfare archive to better understand this crisis: https://t.co/gTky0lhCKx 📺 Watch the full 1 hour hearing here: https://t.co/xt66prLdGp Mr. Julian Ku is the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra University

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5 months ago

@theghostme @ASU Thank you very much for sharing! We will have to share this on #SWJTheDiscourse. Important stuff.

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5 months ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: Dr. James Giordano on Why the Brain is the Battlefield of the Future (and the Future is Now) 🧠 This clip from a lecture held by the Modern War Institute at West Point (2018) (@WarInstitute) underscores a growing reality in modern conflict: adversaries are no longer focused solely on shaping what people think, but how they think (literally). Attention, trust, emotion, and decision-making are back to the forefront of contested terrain. This matters deeply for #IrregularWarfare, where influence, legitimacy, power, and perception often matter more than firepower. Cognitive effects, achieved through narratives, platforms, and behavioral manipulation, can weaken cohesion and resolve without crossing kinetic thresholds. 🤔 💭 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯❓ Let's discuss!🗣️ 🔗 Watch the full lecture here: https://t.co/nRx28PDcuq ➡️Send us your #CognitiveWarfare essays and perspective pieces: https://t.co/uutAv6MEkG 🔎Explore the #CogWar archives here: https://t.co/f8XE2uZ2mt 🤝 With a $10/year donation, become a member to support us and comment directly on any piece for all to learn from your ideas: https://t.co/Cyr6Aexkt3

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6 months ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: EMP Weapons Expose #PRC Military Vulnerability ㅤㅤ 👤 By: Guermantes Lailari, Yu-cheng Chen, and Tin Pak for The Jamestown Foundation (@JamestownTweets) ㅤㅤ In a recent analysis published by The Jamestown Foundation titled “EMP Weapons Expose PRC Military Vulnerability,” the authors assess how electromagnetic pulse weapons expose critical vulnerabilities in the People’s Liberation Army’s increasingly informatized force structure. ㅤㅤ The authors argue that #EMP capabilities have moved “from theory to reality” and now provide a speed-of-light, non-kinetic “electronics-kill” option capable of disabling drone swarms, missiles, and command networks at scale. ㅤㅤ Chinese military and state-affiliated scientists openly acknowledge doubts about the ability to fully harden systems against multi-vector EMP threats, even as the PLA deepens its dependence on integrated digital “kill webs.” ㅤㅤ In a #Taiwan contingency, the authors conclude that EMP weapons could disrupt early PLA attack phases while also threatening civilian infrastructure that underwrites Chinese military power. ㅤㅤ 🔗 Find this article and more in The Discourse: https://t.co/x91RHckixi #China #PeoplesLiberationArmy #XiJinping #ElectromagneticPulse

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6 months ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: An Ambassador’s Journal By David Scheffer of Arizona State University An Ambassador’s Journal is a new bi-weekly publication on Substack from David Scheffer. By subscribing to his substack, you will get to know Professor Scheffer and dive deep into historical topics in world affairs. In his first essay he states, “Given my personal history with international justice, I aim to share my experiences, insights, and stories about the individuals who masterminded atrocity crimes (#genocide, #CrimesAgainstHumanity, #WarCrimes, #aggression) that some of you may not know much if anything about, but they occurred in our time and on our watch.” 👤 About Ambassador Scheffer: "Professor Scheffer was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001). He negotiated the creation of five war crimes tribunals and chaired the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group (1998-2001). He served on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council and as Senior Adviser and Counsel to Dr. Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, from 1993-1996. 📚 His books include “All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals” (Princeton 2012), “The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace” (Oxford 2019), and “The UN Charter: Five Pillars for Humankind” (Springer 2025, co-author Mark S. Ellis)." 🔗 Read his first essay and subscribe to his Substack here: https://t.co/eOygIGFKZr

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6 months ago

What is the most contested battlespace of the 21st century? It's the human mind! 🧠 (Apologize to your "conspiracy theorist" friends!) In this clip from #SWJTheDiscourse, Dr. James Giordano, PhD., MPhil. of @Georgetown University examines how #neuroscience, #CognitiveWarfare, and emerging #neurotechnologies are reshaping the character of conflict. 🧬🧠🦠 In this lecture at the Modern War Institute at West Point (@WarInstitute), Dr. Giordano covers everything from #InfluenceOperations and #HumanPerformance enhancement to the ethical and legal challenges of tinkering with how people tick and tock. 🕰️ His discussion underscores the critical reality that today's battlespace will increasingly target how humans think, decide, and perceive the themselves and the world around them. As #StrategicCompetition intensifies, understanding the brain as a contested battlespace is no longer optional for defense professionals, policymakers, and scholars. Everyone is a target...think about what you're thinking about and how you're thinking about it. 📺 Watch the full lecture here: https://t.co/nRx28PCEES #Cybernetics #Neuroweapons #BiologicalWarfare #SynBio #SilentWeaponsforQuietWars #NarrativeWarfare #WeaponizedNarratives #DirectedEnergyWeapons #HavanaSyndrome #PSYOP #DEW #MindControl 👤 About Dr. Giordano: Dr. James Giordano, PhD, MPhil, is Chief of the #Neuroethics Studies Program, Scholar-in-Residence, leads the Sub-Program in Military Medical Ethics, and Co-director of the O'Neill-Pellegrino Program in Brain Science and #GlobalHealth Law and Policy in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical #Bioethics.

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6 months ago

🪡🧵#SWJTheDiscourse: Predatory Pricing: How the Chinese Communist Party Manipulates Global Mineral Prices To Maintain Its Dominance 👤By: Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party #CCP (@ChinaSelect)

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#SWJTheDiscourse: Dr. Frank Hoffman Discusses His Recent #SWJEssay, Assessing Cognitive Warfare 📡 🌀🧠 🌀 🦠 👥 By: The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast - Pell Center at Salve Regina University (@PellCenter) "The terminology we use to describe new phenomena matters. On this week’s podcast, defense intellectual Frank Hoffman reviews Chinese, Russian, European, and–to the extent there is any–American writings about ‘#CognitiveWarfare.’ For the uninitiated–this runs the gamut from traditional tools of influence to novel technologies, including chemical and #DirectedEnergy weapons that can “alter peoples’ brains and thought processes. . . .” Co-hosts Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson also discuss the latest news about CopyCop/Storm1516 and the latest recruiting ad for the 4th PsyOp Group." 📻 Listen to the Podcast Episode here: https://t.co/8iEZNBSAEh 📺 Watch our #SWJAuthorFeature Episode #2 with Dr. Hoffman here: https://t.co/lUrUPyKVTm #Cybernetics #MindControl #Influence #SWJEssay #HavanaSyndrome #HybridWarfare #UnrestrictedWarare #IrregularWarfare #PoliticalWarfare #NarrativeWarfare

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6 months ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: The Rising Tide of Dissent in China 👤 By: SWJ Staff "The People’s Republic of China (#PRC) has long maintained a facade of unyielding stability under the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP), but beneath this veneer lies a simmering undercurrent of public discontent. Data from the #ChinaDissentMonitor (CDM), a project by @freedomhouse, reveals a marked escalation in dissent events during 2025, particularly in the third quarter (July-September). This surge, driven predominantly by economic grievances, underscores vulnerabilities in the CCP’s governance model and raises questions about potential flashpoints for broader unrest. This analysis explores how everyday protests could evolve into more organized challenges to authority." 🤔 💭 Some basic questions about #SocialUnrest and #Resistance, from our Editor-at-Large, Col. (Ret.) David Maxwell (@DavidMaxwell161): 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱❓ 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘵❓ 𝘐𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦 “𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺” 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩, 𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨❓ https://t.co/gHbRMiNNoz #Resilience #HumanRights #Freedom #FreedomofSpeech #Life #Liberty #PursuitofHappiness

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6 months ago

@realjonroscoe @NATO THE Col. OODA Loop?! Thanks for sharing, this is great content for #SWJTheDiscourse. Col. Boyd...What a legend. It's oh so important that everyone understand this.

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#SWJTheDiscourse: @NATO Chief Scientist Report on Cognitive Warfare #CognitiveWarfare has been recognized as a strategic research challenge and the NATO Science & Technology Organization is playing a pivotal role in enhancing operational readiness through science-based knowledge. This Chief Scientist Research Report addresses the growing importance of the cognitive environment for modern warfare by examining how #CogWar shapes human behavior through cognitive effects that are enabled by technology and other means. 🔗 : https://t.co/ISaYGWWcnB #SynBio #SyntheticBiology #Cybernetics #NarrativeWarfare #WeaponizedNarratives What is #WeaponizedNarrative? An attack that seeks to undermine an opponent's civilization, identity, and will. By generating confusion, complexity, and political and social schisms, it confounds response on the part of the defender. A weaponized narrative is an attack on the orientation of the target's decision making process!

smallwars's tweet photo. #SWJTheDiscourse: @NATO Chief Scientist Report on Cognitive Warfare

#CognitiveWarfare has been recognized as a strategic research challenge and the NATO Science & Technology Organization is playing a pivotal role in enhancing operational readiness through science-based knowledge. This Chief Scientist Research Report addresses the growing importance of the cognitive environment for modern warfare by examining how #CogWar shapes human behavior through cognitive effects that are enabled by technology and other means.

🔗 : https://t.co/ISaYGWWcnB

#SynBio #SyntheticBiology #Cybernetics #NarrativeWarfare #WeaponizedNarratives

What is #WeaponizedNarrative?
An attack that seeks to undermine an opponent's civilization, identity, and will. By generating confusion, complexity, and political and social schisms, it confounds response on the part of the defender.

A weaponized narrative is an attack on the orientation of the target's decision making process!

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7 months ago

#SWJTheDiscourse: Recent Wargame By The PRC Reveals Extensive Dual-Use Infrastructure Throughout Latin America Robert Evan Ellis’s article at The Diplomat, “China’s Military Is Planning for Combat in Latin America,” provides an analysis of a recent #PLA wargame that offers rare visibility into how #Beijing envisions #LatinAmerica as an active theater in a future conflict with the United States. The exercise, broadcast by Chinese state media, simulated PLA operations around Cuba, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico, confirming that China’s extensive dual-use infrastructure across Latin America is not merely commercial opportunism but part of deliberate contingency planning. Ellis highlights how facilities such as #Argentina’s PLA-operated space radar, COSCO’s control of #Peru’s Chancay port, #Chinese electronic intelligence sites in #Cuba, and commercial shipping networks could enable intelligence collection, naval resupply, and potentially even #SpecialOperations within striking distance of U.S. territory during an Indo-Pacific conflict. https://t.co/uCe4yDGSKg #Maduro #Venezuela #GreatPowerCompetition

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#SWJTheDiscourse: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion This video shows how long-term #InfluenceOperations work by reshaping how a society understands truth, legitimacy, and itself. Subversion is not about persuasion in the short term. It is about conditioning...gradually altering norms, incentives, and institutions so that a population begins to act against its own interests without external force. The key point that this video makes is that subversion operates across four domains: 🧠 Ideas and values (what a society believes is right or wrong) 🏛️ Institutions (media, education, governance) 🤝 Social cohesion (trust between groups) 👓 Decision-making (how leaders and citizens interpret reality) What makes this extremely relevant today is the recognition that modern information environments-algorithmic media, fragmented audiences, and declining institutional trust- make societies more vulnerable to these dynamics, not less. The lesson is not paranoia. It is awareness. 👁️ Subversion works best when you don't notice it...so keep noticing. If organizations, governments, and professionals focus only on tactical responses like fact-checking, content moderation, or messaging, then they miss the deeper issue. #Subversion succeeds when strategic intent goes unexamined and when societies lose the ability to distinguish between disagreement and manipulation. This video reframes influence as a strategic and cultural problem, which are the hardest to reverse once ignored. Understanding this is the first step toward #resilience. 💪 🧠 📺 Find the full interview here: https://t.co/6auK8gzLfR

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#SWJTheDiscourse: Former #KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984) “Yuri Bezmenov (alias Tomas Schuman), a Soviet KGB defector, explains in detail his scheme for the KGB process of subversion and takeover of target societies at a lecture in Los Angeles, 1983." 🔗 Find the full lecture and an interview with Yuri here: https://t.co/6auK8gzLfR #SWJVideo #ActiveMeasures #Subversion #IrregularWarfare #PoliticalWarfare #USSR #SovietUnion #KGB #NarrativeWarfare #WeaponizedNarratives #CognitiveWarfare #IWar #InformationWarfare #IW

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#SWJTheDiscourse: Leaked Top Secret PLA Court-Martial: Gen. Xu Qinxian Tried for Refusing Tiananmen Crackdown, translated by Jennifer Zeng of Inconvenient Truths - Jennifer Zeng Reports In an incredible act of humanity and defiance, General Xu Qinxian refused to march his troops into Tiananmen Square on April 15, 1989. This 6 hour leaked trial is oh so important, please take the time to watch, learn, and share. 📺 This preview video exhibits General Xu Qinxian's alleged crimes. Thank you, Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferzeng97) for your tireless reporting and for taking the time to translate this. 🔗 Find Parts 1-3 of Ms. Zeng's translations here: https://t.co/YEyFlzL8rR When Ms. Zeng publishes the other parts, we will be sure to update the above article post. #Humanity #Defiance #Solidarity #Compassion #China #XuQinxian #PLA #PeoplesLiberationArmy

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#SWJTheDiscourse: Codifying Irregular Warfare—Inside the Pentagon’s new DoD Instruction 3000.07 | @IrregWarfare Initiative “Episode 142 of the Irregular Warfare Podcast features Dr. Jonathan Schroden, Mick Crnkovich, and David Maxwell (@DavidMaxwell161, #SWJ Editor-at-Large) for a deep dive into the Pentagon’s new irregular warfare policy instruction—DoD Instruction 3000.07—and what it signals about how the U.S. military understands, organizes for, and competes in irregular conflict. The discussion opens with why the United States Department of War updated its irregular warfare guidance after two decades of counterterrorism operations and amid renewed strategic competition with state adversaries. The guests explain how the new instruction reflects a shift away from a terrorism-centric framework toward recognizing irregular warfare as a persistent and central feature of #GreatPowerCompetition." In this 5 minute preview, listeners will gain: ✅A clear explanation of what the new IW policy is—and what it is not. ✅Insight into why IW must be embraced by the entire Joint Force—not only #SpecialOperationsForces. ✅Context on the shift from counterinsurgency-era assumptions to today’s strategic competition environment. ✅A candid discussion on doctrine, definitions, and why “quibbling” is part of healthy intellectual development. ✅A whole-of-government perspective on political warfare and DoW’s role within it. This preview is a concise but substantive primer on why #IrregularWarfare remains central to modern competition and why the United States cannot afford to overlook it. 🎙️ Listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/SG2tvzcbYh @IrregularWarCtr @Future_of_War @ASU @DOWResponse @DeptofWar @SecWar #IrregularWarfarePodcast #SmallWarsJournal #IrregularWarfareInitiative #IrregularWarfareCenter #WholeofGovernment #WholeofSociety #HybridWarfare #UnrestrictedWarfare #UnconventionalWarfare

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