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CIWAG Symposium: Complexity and Innovation

U.S. Naval War College Provost Lewis Duncan chairs a discussion during a symposium hosted by the Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups (CIWAG) at the school in Newport, Rhode Island.
U.S. Naval War College Provost Lewis Duncan chairs a discussion during a symposium hosted by the Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups (CIWAG) at the school in Newport, Rhode Island. The symposium, “Rising Tides,” explored the spectrum of challenges that scholars, operators, and practitioners will deal with in the future and included sessions titled Hard Science and Dark Futures; ISIS: Ideology and Propaganda; Grey Zone Strategies: South China Sea, Economic Warfare and Capital Markets; Food Security—a Non-traditional Threat to Security and Stability; Assessing Irregular Environments; Nigerian Chameleon: The Many Faces of Boko Haram; and Gibridnaya: Russian New Generation Warfare on Land and Sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Daniel L. Kuester/Released)

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Tuesday, June 28-29, 2016
U.S. Naval War College, 686 Cushing Road, Newport, RI 02841

CIWAG Program Manager

(401) 856-5495

This event is not open to the general public

This event is invite only.
Center on Irregular Warfare & Armed Groups, Save the Date 2016

The Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups (CIWAG) at the US Naval War College presented its 7th annual symposium, “Complexity and Innovation,” on 28-29 June 2016.

Key Discussions include:

  • Innovation and Technology
  • The Economic Instrument of Power
  • Cyber Militias and Buzzards: The Digital Threat Actors Around the Syrian Civil War
  • The Confluence of Drugs and Terror: Hezbollah’s Involvement in the Global Cocaine Trade
  • C21st China: Asymmetric Approaches to Expanding Power
  • CRACK99: The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software Pirate
  • Turkey’s Strategy Towards the Kurds and IS
  • Grey-Zone Conflicts
  • Jihadist Propaganda
  • Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
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