Learning & Research
New Self-Study Course: IWC Future Threats
IWC Future Threats (FT) Certificate: The Future of Conflict, IW, and Homeland Defense is an eight-course certificate pathway that includes instruction on how developments in these areas may affect future conflict, IW, and homeland defense.
The introductory module, IW-120, covers current trends in artificial intelligence, cyber, space, and cognitive warfare, unmanned systems, and the use of proxy forces. After IW-120 introduces the principal threat areas detailed throughout the certificate, subsequent courses project future developments (5–10 years) in each of the focus areas and discuss the potential impact on U.S. political and military strategy.
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Outstanding thesis research
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SElf-study courses
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This course examines how decentralized finance reshapes the boundaries of national power, the regulatory frameworks struggling to keep pace, and the hard tradeoffs between financial innovation and security.
In the two decades since the 9/11 attacks, broad and deep changes have been made to the ways that authorities secure transportation networks and infrastructure. This is an update to the original Transportation Security course.
Irregular Warfare 301: IW Campaign Planning
IW 301 is built to educate practitioners on the form, functions, and features of IW campaigning with a focus on the development of a regionally based, integrated interagency IW campaign plan.
APEX & Alumni presentations
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RESOURCES BY TOPIC
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Initiating Change at Agencies
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HSDL In-Focus
Find resources on more than 100 topics from the Homeland Security & Defense Library (HSDL) .
Recommended reads
Books CHDS faculty are assigning in the classroom.
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HOMELAND SECURITY Timeline
Timeline of significant homeland defense and security events from 1920-present.
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The Homeland Security & Defense Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of resources related to policy, strategy, and organizational management for homeland defense and homeland security.
Homeland Security Affairs is the peer-reviewed online journal of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS).