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Three Weeks to Win: Why Xi’s Taiwan Invasion Was Always a Race Against the Clock

by Lumpy Lumbaca
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07.28.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: China-Taiwan Relations, Chinese Navy (PLAN), clandestine operations, Great Firewall, occupation, sanctions, Taiwan resistence

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The Negative and the Print: How the Intelligence Failure of 1973 Produced the Intelligence Failure of 2026

by Konstantinos Nizamis
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07.28.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Cognitive Bias, Intelligence failures, Iran, Israel, Strategic Surprise

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Cognitive Warfare Below the Threshold: AI, Decision Speed, and the Future of Competition

by Yi Se Gwon
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07.28.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), artificial intelligence strategy, Cognitive Warfare, competition, competitive strategy, Gray Zone, Gray Zone Warfare, Gray-Zone Competition

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Defeating Dialectic and Alchemic Warfare in Cognitive Operations: Reclaiming Rational Doctrine for Western Resilience

by Jonas Vesterberg
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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Cognitive Warfare, dialectic warfare, disintegration operations, information operations, NATO doctrine, political alchemy

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Beyond Lawrence: Respect, Legitimacy, and the Enduring Paradox of Indigenous Warfare

by David Maxwell
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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: assistance paradox, indigenous warfare, irregular warfare, Legitimacy, local ownership, military advising, Security Force Assistance, T.E. Lawrence

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Assessing Special Operations Forces (SOF) 2040 (Part 3): The Technology Layer – Cyber, Space, and Human-Machine Teaming in 2040

by Dr. David Dorsey, by David S. Maxwell, by Michael Ingerick, by Mick Crnkovich
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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

Tags: Adaptability, Adaptive Performance, Assessment–Selection–and Qualification, Cognitive Warfare, Human Domain Advantage, Human-Machine Teaming, Hyper Enabled Operator, Indigenous Partnering, irregular warfare, Political Judgment, political warfare, SOF 2040, Special Operations Forces, Special Warfare, Technology Enablement, Unconventional Warfare

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Three Weeks to Win: Why Xi’s Taiwan Invasion Was Always a Race Against the Clock

by Lumpy Lumbaca

|

07.28.2026 at 06:00am

The Negative and the Print: How the Intelligence Failure of 1973 Produced the Intelligence Failure of 2026

by Konstantinos Nizamis

|

07.28.2026 at 06:00am

Cognitive Warfare Below the Threshold: AI, Decision Speed, and the Future of Competition

by Yi Se Gwon

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07.28.2026 at 06:00am

It’s Time to Try the Kleiman Strategy in Mexico

by Michael L. Burgoyne

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07.28.2026 at 12:15am

Dialectic and Alchemic Warfare in Historic Cognitive Operations.

Defeating Dialectic and Alchemic Warfare in Cognitive Operations: Reclaiming Rational Doctrine for Western Resilience

by Jonas Vesterberg

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07.27.2026 at 06:00am

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