The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) (Sepaheh Pasdaraneh Enghelabeh Eslami) was originally constituted to protect the values and goals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran.[1] In 1979, it was a body answerable only to the new religious leadership of the fledgling Islamic Republic. The IRGC now defines its mission beyond the state of Iran...
After many years of U.S. hegemony following the Cold War, Russia has gained—and is exercising—the capabilities to threaten the United States and its interests abroad. Russia invests in military capabilities to confront the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other neighboring states. Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea demonstrated its use of hybrid warfare to accomplish...
Competition—specifically that between so-called great powers—is an inescapable concept in present-day Washington. Recent versions of the U.S. National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and National Military Strategy all declared the era of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency dead in favor of America’s new focus on defeating China and Russia in great power competition. The Trump administration’s 2017...
