Part I: why Iran built its doctrine on asymmetric warfare and mosaic defense, and how it is being tested by the 2026 decapitation of its Supreme Leader.
Part IV: Russia’s monthly gains fell from 725 sq km in Nov 2025 to a net loss by April 2026, as drone kill zones rewrote the Ukraine war’s tactics.
Keeping positive identification and munitions proportionality intact during a total communications blackout.
Automated targeting pipelines, automation bias and adversarial data poisoning, assessed under the Law of Armed Conflict.
The series conclusions: command liability, the limits of algorithmic legality, and degraded-state rules under LOAC.
Decentralized drone swarms and edge-computed strike allocation under the constraints of international humanitarian law.
PLA restructuring: the dissolution of the SSF, the new Information Support Force (ISF), and System Destruction Warfare.
Six dossiers on how Iran defends itself without conventional parity: proxy depth, shadow supply chains, two-front integration, information war, EW and strike-back.
Defa-e Mozaik (Mosaic Defense): the IRGC doctrine for integrating unconventional, multi-axis capabilities against superior foes.
The IRGC’s command hierarchy and institutional architecture, and how it bypasses the Iranian state to run regional strategy.
