Irregular Warfare Club

It's good to be back! IWC started off the semester with a refresher course on PLT movement and ORPs. Stay tuned for our first training exercise later this month!

A farewell to our outgoing firsties. Go kill it in BOLC and stay irregular!

More pictures of one of our favorite OICs from Day 3 of the Best Ranger Competition!

Be sure to watch for one of IWC's OICs, MAJ Snyder, and MAJ Fuller in the Best Ranger Competition today! Good luck, Gentlemen!

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The Irregulars put their small unit tactic skills to the test by conducting squad level ambushes during last weekend's training event. OPFOR, look out!

Executed some fantastic MOUT training this past weekend. Also, congrats to the 4CL Irregulars on making it to Plebe Parent Weekend!

Some highlights from this weekend's Squad Level Tactics training event. See you Tuesday!

Congratulations to all our new members for completing the Mid Semester Tryout this past weekend! Be on the look out for more info regarding this weekend's training event.

We are back! Come say hi down at Ike Hall Tuesday night!

Trying to get away from Monday like.....

We had a great time meeting everyone tonight at club night! Follow us on facebook or email [email protected] to get updates on all of our meetings and events for this semester!

On the cold, rainy morning of April 1, cadets from West Point’s Irregular Warfare Group (IWG) crossed the Hudson River to infiltrate into denied enemy territory as part of the IWG’s 2017 Unconventional Warfare Exercise. Their mission was to enable indigenous resistance movements to disrupt military and political activities in the breakaway self-proclaimed “People’s Republic of Pineland” in order to facilitate the forcible entry of a conventional task force to liberate occupied eastern “Pineland.”

While this mission was part of a fictional scenario without any actual shots fired or lives lost, the very nature of Unconventional Warfare was on display.

This multi-day training event in Esopus and Hyde Park, New York, involved over 60 USMA and Preparatory School cadets along with faculty from the Departments of Social Sciences, Chemistry and Life Science, Military Instruction, and the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic, and external support from the Scenic Hudson environmental and conservation group, the Poughkeepsie Yacht Club, the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office and former senior leadership from the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne).

By working alongside indigenous resistance movements, Unconventional Warfare has proven essential in setting conditions to facilitate conventional combined arms maneuver.

Training emphasized task organization, mission analysis and planning, property accountability, negotiation skills, emotional intelligence, small unit tactics proficiency, advisor skills, navigating moral dilemmas, and creative problem-solving at both the tactical and strategic levels.

Events included a planning and team building phase, waterborne infiltration, link-up with resistance auxiliary, reacting to enemy checkpoints, meeting with and building rapport with resistance force commanders, assessing resistance capabilities, advising both guerrilla forces and nonviolent civil resistance groups, and coordinating multiple indigenous and U.S. interagency efforts.

This event was an opportunity to expose cadets to the practical application of Unconventional Warfare and military advisory, augmenting the IWG’s academic program which is grounded in weekly discussions and guest speaker engagements that reinforce both the Defense and Strategic Studies and Social Sciences curriculums and overall West Point Leader Development System goals.

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