{"slug": "iw-weekly-02-august-2026", "title": "IW Weekly - 02 August 2026", "summary": "China's 'Total War on Taipei' cognitive-effects push, Russia's Baltic C2 model, al-Qaeda and ISIS diverging on AI adoption, and Sahel counter-drone/AI teaming all point to the contest moving, according to the Irregular Warfare Weekly report for August 02, 2026.", "body_md": "|\nIRREGULAR WARFARE WEEKLY\nKeep Warfare Irregular\nAugust 02, 2026\n|\n|\nThis Week\nChina's \"Total War on Taipei\" cognitive-effects push, Russia's Baltic C2 model, al-Qaeda and ISIS diverging on AI adoption, and Sahel counter-drone/AI teaming all point to the contest moving |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iw-weekly-02-august-2026", "canonical_source": "https://www.irregularwarfare.org/iw-weekly-02-august-2026/", "published_at": "2026-08-02 15:45:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-16 16:10:33.154725+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["China", "Taipei", "Russia", "al-Qaeda", "ISIS", "Sahel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iw-weekly-02-august-2026", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iw-weekly-02-august-2026.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iw-weekly-02-august-2026.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iw-weekly-02-august-2026.jsonld"}}