The Irregular Warfare Podcast is a collaboration between the Modern War Institute and Princeton University’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project. You can listen to the full episode below, and you can find it and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, TuneIn, or your favorite podcast app. And be sure to follow the podcast on Twitter!

Are the U.S. Marines better at counterinsurgency (COIN) than the U.S. Army? How about the British Army? If so, why, and if not then what else…

In Episode 8 of the Irregular Warfare Podcast, hosts Nick Lopez and Shawna Sinnott have a conversation with best-selling authors August…

As the world awaits a scientifically proven treatment for COVID-19 alternative and evidence-free remedies such as …

We study how easy it is to distinguish influence operations from organic social media activity by assessing the performance of a platform-agnostic…

Want protection against the coronavirus? Here’s a tip: As you leaf through the pages of a Bible, you will most likely find a single hair. Put this…

As fears rise over disinformation and influence operations, stakeholders from industry to policymakers need to better understand the effects of…

The Irregular Warfare Podcast is a joint venture between ESOC and the Modern War Institute.

This episode of the Irregular…

The Irregular Warfare Podcast is a joint venture between ESOC and the Modern War Institute.

The second episode of the …

The Irregular Warfare Podcast is a joint venture between ESOC and the Modern War Institute.

This is the inaugural episode of a…

What can we learn about all the misinformation about Covid-19? Are they mostly incorrect but uncorrelated health tips, or are there specific…

Scholars of political violence from across the country gathered (virtually) at the Empirical Studies of Conflict 2020 annual meeting May 28-29.…

The United States is in the midst of the greatest mass mobilization of public health resources in nearly a century...

Fake news and false information on COVID-19 can spread just as quickly as the virus itself...

The spread of COVID-19 is being mirrored online by widely-circulated disinformation about the virus...

Last month, Jacob N. Shapiro, co-director of Princeton University’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC), asked ESOC research specialist Jan Oledan to look at misinformation narratives concerning the coronavirus.

This article introduces a dataset on the covert use of social media to influence politics by promoting propaganda, advocating controversial…

Because the trifecta of big data, the “Internet of Things,” and machine learning creates tremendous potential for quantifying human behavior. From…

Social media has proved an essential tool for catalyzing political activism and social change around the world...

A large game-theoretic literature has developed to study terrorism. This literature has made significant contributions to the understanding of…