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Deceit and Disguise: Perfidy in Political Violence
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As he prepared to embark on a killing spree aimed at Minnesota’s Democratic political leadership, Vance Boelter donned a silicone mask and police uniform and stepped into an SUV decked with “law-enforcement style emergency li...
Exclusive: Frontline Interview with Myanmar's Anti-Junta Cobra Column
The following interview was conducted by Militant Wire researchers, Tom Lord (The WannabeWonk), Harold Chambers, and Uday, with a member of the elite guerrilla unit, the Cobra Column, fighting alongside the Karen National Liberation Army (K...
Another Exclusive Interview with West Papua National Liberation Army Spokesman, Sebby Sambom
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What follows is our researcher’s latest July 2026 interview with TPNPB spokesman Sebby Sambom, conducted by Uday. The low-intensity insurgency between indigenous members of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) and the Indonesian gov...
Inside ISWAP's Online Propaganda Machine: How Al-Buhaira Outlet is Waging a War of Words Across the Lake Chad Basin
When the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) split from its predecessor organization, Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram in 2016, it began developing a more systematic media strategy.
When the Islamic State West Africa Province...
Open-Weight AI Models and Terrorist Exploitation: A Preliminary Assessment
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The moment an artificial intelligence (AI) lab publishes an open-weight model, it relinquishes the ability to recall it.1 The following is a preliminary assessment of what open-weight models mean for terrorist misuse. However...
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\ud83d\udd0eIndependent Weapons researcher.\ud83c\udfa5Documenting weapons in circulation and activites of Non-State Armed Groups from. \ud83d\udce5Contact: [email protected]
I research militant groups and political violence. Co-Founder and Editor of @MilitantWire. Personal Twitter: @PotempkinBrain Newsletter: thewannabewonk.substack.com
London-based journalist and risk analyst
Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Militant Wire, Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Tech Against Terrorism, and Senior Research Fellow at the Soufan Center
Intelligence Analyst, Security Consultant: Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Insurgency, Cognitive Warfare.
My favorite sambal is sambal rica rica, from Manado in Indonesia. And sticky rice is rice living its best life. Anyway, this will mostly be about security and politics in Southeast Asia. But random thoughts and aesthetics from time to time too.
COO at DFA Systems, an attritable robotics company. Lawyer and researcher focused on global decentralization, special jurisdictions, non-state sovereigns, and private military companies.
Defense analyst focused on technology and modern warfare. Currently, Non-Resident Fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Associate analyst, Tochnyi
Research Analyst at The Soufan Center | Fellow, Tech Against Terrorism and ICCT
Freelance journalist and analyst covering extremism, terrorism, and other security threats. Twitter: @chambersharold8
Researcher specializing in conflict dynamics, violent extremist governance, and information operations in West and North Africa, focused on militant networks, resource extraction, and armed group financing. @BorakKiria
Jacob Ware is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and DeSales University. He is the co-author of God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America, published in 2024 by Columbia University Press.
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