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New Pentagon Document Details Push To Expand Use Of Irregular Warfare Tools

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

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New Pentagon Document Details Push To Expand Use Of Irregular Warfare Tools

The Pentagon on Friday released a document detailing the department’s push to expand its use of irregular warfare (IW) operations beyond just special operations forces, including an emphasis in artificial intelligence investments to bolster IW tactics across the joint force. The newly declassified 12-page Irregular Warfare Annex was originally put together as an amendment to the National Defense Strategy in 2019, and discusses a need to embrace “proactive, dynamic, and unorthodox approaches” that will be required to compete with countries…

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