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The MWI Ukraine Papers, 2022–2025

Editor’s note: Since 2022, the Modern War Institute (MWI) has published almost a hundred articles...

The Domestic Fentanyl Crisis in Strategic Context, Part III: Responding to China’s Drug Warfare

Editor’s note: This report is the third in a three-part series that examines the role of the...

Narratives and Political Values in the Arctic

Troy J. Bouffard, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Adam Lajeunesse, Elizabeth Buchanan, Marc Lanteigne and Sergey Sukhankin | 03.09.25

Editor’s note: MWI research fellow Troy Bouffard and colleagues from across various...

The Domestic Fentanyl Crisis in Strategic Context, Part II: China and the Fentanyl Supply Chain

Nicholas Dockery | 01.08.25

Editor’s note: This report is the second in a three-part series that examines the role of...

The Domestic Fentanyl Crisis in Strategic Context, Part I: From Prescription to National Security Epidemic

Nicholas Dockery | 12.13.24

Editor’s note: This report is the first in a three-part series that examines the role of the...

Penetrate, Disintegrate, and Exploit: The Israeli Counteroffensive at the Suez Canal, 1973

Nathan Jennings | 10.31.24

With the adoption of multidomain operations (MDO) as its central operational concept, the US Army...

I’m From the Government, and I’m Here to Help: Public Perceptions of Coercive State Power

Jessica Blankshain | 09.16.24

Editor’s Note: Dr. Jessica Blankshain, MWI Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the...

Drafting Restraint: Are Military Recruitment Policies Associated with Interstate Conflict Initiation?

Max Margulies | 09.05.24

Editor’s Note: MWI’s Chief Research Officer, Dr. Max Margulies, published an article...

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