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With Concord sitting at the top of the Division I softball standings, four schools (Coe-Brown, John Stark, Bow, Merrimack Valley) fighting for a title in D-II and Hopkinton and Pittsfield among the best in D-III and D-IV, 2023 has been another...

The lessons-learned doctrine from the war in Ukraine is yet to be written, but the conflict has clearly demonstrated how paramilitary forces, such as Russia’s Wagner Private Military Company (better known simply as the Wagner Group) can reinforce state militaries. Of course, proxies and non-state partnerships have influenced the contours of conflicts in the Middle East for many years. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has led the curve via its relationships with Shia militia gr...

The use of self-sustaining fighting groups appeals to certain states, because they allow them to impose greater losses and costs on their enemies and alter global order.