Adam Wunische
@adamwunische.bsky.social
Author Unwinnable Wars |
Instructor @ElliottSchoolGW |
PhD @BostonCollege |
Analyzing political violence in all its forms |
Follow the data |
Former CIA and US Army
Instructor @ElliottSchoolGW |
PhD @BostonCollege |
Analyzing political violence in all its forms |
Follow the data |
Former CIA and US Army
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For recently graduated undergrads and enrolled graduate students, the CNA internship program is open for summer 2026! Come join us and work on exciting research, analysis, and #wargaming for the Navy & Marine Corps! Open until Dec 1st.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
For recently graduated undergrads and enrolled graduate students, the CNA internship program is open for summer 2026! Come join us and work on exciting research, analysis, and #wargaming for the Navy & Marine Corps! Open until Dec 1st.
🔗 www.cna.org/careers/inte...
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The Counterinsurgency Dilemma...
Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia
-very interesting looking book coming out soon by
@triciabacon.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia
-very interesting looking book coming out soon by
@triciabacon.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
The Counterinsurgency Dilemma
In the wake of the Taliban's military defeat in 2001, foreign fighters played a critical role in assisting the Taliban to launch an insurgency against Coalition Forces. Ten years later, by al-Qaida's ...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The Counterinsurgency Dilemma...
Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia
-very interesting looking book coming out soon by
@triciabacon.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Foreign Fighter Influence on Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Somalia
-very interesting looking book coming out soon by
@triciabacon.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
👇 the number of products being unironically sold that were literally plot lines of Black Mirror... Wild
"The tech industry is delivering on futuristic notions of science fiction," writes Casey Michael Henry. "Yet it seems unaware, at times, that many of those notions were meant to be dystopian or satirical — visions of where our worst and dumbest habits could lead us." nyti.ms/4oOdfmc
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
👇 the number of products being unironically sold that were literally plot lines of Black Mirror... Wild
It's pretty insufferable
Self-promotion is everywhere on LinkedIn. Our management columnist highlights some of the most appalling cases of horn-tooting
econ.st/43FvBh3
Illustration: Paul Blow
econ.st/43FvBh3
Illustration: Paul Blow
November 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's pretty insufferable
This! 👇 Stop asking whether AI should be used and start working to understand what it means now that it is being used.
"The question is no longer whether AI will infuse targeting — it already has — but whether democracies can harness it without hollowing out the ethical core of the laws of war or the strategic insight that comes from real understanding."
warontherocks.com/2025/10/will...
warontherocks.com/2025/10/will...
Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West?
Israel’s recent campaign in Gaza marks a turning point in modern warfare: the fusion of counter-insurgency and artificial intelligence. Will Western
warontherocks.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This! 👇 Stop asking whether AI should be used and start working to understand what it means now that it is being used.
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Great analysis!
Conflict over Taiwan would promote escalation in ways U.S.-Soviet tensions in Europe never did, write Henrik Stålhane Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø in the Foreign Policy Essay. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Geography of a U.S.-China War
Conflict over Taiwan would promote escalation in ways U.S.-Soviet tensions in Europe never did.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Great analysis!
Just because a military is changing its tech, doesn't mean it's changing for the better. 👇
High-altitude balloons are surprisingly useful in modern conflicts
Armed forces are turning to an 18th-century technology to snoop on enemies
High-altitude balloons are surprisingly useful in modern conflicts
econ.st
September 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Just because a military is changing its tech, doesn't mean it's changing for the better. 👇
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September 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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In which I join host Robert Kremzner and John Nagl to discuss lessons from the US withdrawal from #Afghanistan
newlinesinstitute.org/state-resili...
newlinesinstitute.org/state-resili...
Why Did the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan Fail? - New Lines Institute
In this episode of the Contours Podcast, host Robert Kremzner sits down with John Nagl and Jonathan Schroden, experts in irregular warfare and the American experience in Afghanistan. Together, they go...
newlinesinstitute.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In which I join host Robert Kremzner and John Nagl to discuss lessons from the US withdrawal from #Afghanistan
newlinesinstitute.org/state-resili...
newlinesinstitute.org/state-resili...
From 2021 to 2024, the Islamic State in Khorasan Province declined precipitously. They also struggled to break out of hiding in the mountainous east.
September 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
From 2021 to 2024, the Islamic State in Khorasan Province declined precipitously. They also struggled to break out of hiding in the mountainous east.
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Now we're at 19. 19 new groups added to the US Foreign Terrorist Organization list this year.
13 of them are drug cartels or gangs.
13 of them are drug cartels or gangs.
You probably missed it - the US govt just added FOUR new groups to the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list.
For decades, there have been about 2 new FTOs per year. This year, the Trump admin has added 18 (EIGHTEEN) new FTOs.
Can CT practitioners really pursue so many groups? Is this only talk?
For decades, there have been about 2 new FTOs per year. This year, the Trump admin has added 18 (EIGHTEEN) new FTOs.
Can CT practitioners really pursue so many groups? Is this only talk?
September 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Now we're at 19. 19 new groups added to the US Foreign Terrorist Organization list this year.
13 of them are drug cartels or gangs.
13 of them are drug cartels or gangs.
Key mining facilities in Myanmar are within rebel controlled areas and areas experiencing high levels of violence. The added value to the rebels increase the likelihood of a longterm stalemate between them and government forces.
September 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Key mining facilities in Myanmar are within rebel controlled areas and areas experiencing high levels of violence. The added value to the rebels increase the likelihood of a longterm stalemate between them and government forces.
Wild
David Petraeus greeting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Concordia Summit in NYC. When Petraeus was a 3-star in Iraq in 2004-6, Sharaa was fighting the US as a member of the al-Qaida branch there; when Petraeus was a 4-star, Sharaa was teaching fellow Camp Bucca detainees classical Arabic
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Wild
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The National Security Archive is looking for a Social Media and Communications Intern!
Follow this link for more information: nsarchive.gwu.edu/archive-look...
Follow this link for more information: nsarchive.gwu.edu/archive-look...
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The National Security Archive is looking for a Social Media and Communications Intern!
Follow this link for more information: nsarchive.gwu.edu/archive-look...
Follow this link for more information: nsarchive.gwu.edu/archive-look...
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don't make me tap the sign
September 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Re-upping this article I wrote with Alex Powell in @warontherocks.bsky.social about working with the #Taliban, since it’s apparently relevant again
warontherocks.com/2021/09/work...
warontherocks.com/2021/09/work...
September 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Re-upping this article I wrote with Alex Powell in @warontherocks.bsky.social about working with the #Taliban, since it’s apparently relevant again
warontherocks.com/2021/09/work...
warontherocks.com/2021/09/work...
You go to war with the army you have... What could go wrong?
“Xi may well deem it necessary to fight even if the PLA is not completely prepared,” writes @fravel.bsky.social. “Since the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949, China has usually gone to war when conditions appeared to be unfavorable.”
Is China’s Military Ready for War?
What Xi’s purges do—and don’t—mean for Beijing’s ambitions.
fam.ag
September 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
You go to war with the army you have... What could go wrong?
The dynamic works similarly with terrorist movements. Even those that don't participate in violence yet are sympathetic to the violence, enable it.
Fewer than one in ten Americans say they support political violence, with little difference between left and right. That leaves potentially millions willing to condone violence—and some proportion of them willing to commit it—in a country awash with guns
Is “radical-left” violence really on the rise in America?
The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence. This is what the data show
econ.st
September 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The dynamic works similarly with terrorist movements. Even those that don't participate in violence yet are sympathetic to the violence, enable it.
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This is roughly equivalent to World War I conditions, with an extension of a few kilometers here or there. Supplies had to be brought up at night or by foot, MPs got good at noting artillery patterns to help move traffic along, and logistics governed the pace of everything
“the so-called kill zone now extends 12 to 14 kilometres behind the front – the range at which a $500 drone, flying at up to 60mph, can strike. It means, Afer adds, that “all the logistics [food, ammunition and medical supplies] we are doing is either on foot or with the help of ground drones”.
‘It is a war of drones now’: the ever-evolving tech dominating the frontline in Ukraine
Models for reconnaissance, rescue, interception and attack are changing the way both sides operate
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is roughly equivalent to World War I conditions, with an extension of a few kilometers here or there. Supplies had to be brought up at night or by foot, MPs got good at noting artillery patterns to help move traffic along, and logistics governed the pace of everything
In economics as in war, logistics ruthlessly sets your upward limits!
Available power and transmission capacity is a near-universal concern, according to a recent survey. We explain why this could cause trouble for the chipmaker
How a power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia’s rise
Too many chips, too little juice
econ.st
September 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In economics as in war, logistics ruthlessly sets your upward limits!
Tis the season for University welcome emails from 3 deans, 5 assistant deans, 2 provosts, 1 president, and a partridge in a pear tree.
August 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Tis the season for University welcome emails from 3 deans, 5 assistant deans, 2 provosts, 1 president, and a partridge in a pear tree.
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The Taliban feel so secure that they are slashing their bloated security apparatus to save money. Things could still be destabilised—but the group has endured worse
The world is learning to live with the Taliban
Four years after the fall of Kabul, governments are quietly recognising the insurgents
econ.st
August 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The Taliban feel so secure that they are slashing their bloated security apparatus to save money. Things could still be destabilised—but the group has endured worse