Gray-zone tactics have been around since ancient times. They're incidents perpetrated by one nation against another but they can’t be defined as purely peaceful or militaristic.
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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 09/28/2014 - 7:05am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/27/2014 - 12:42pm | 0 comments
The 2014 National Intelligence Strategy - the blueprint that will drive the priorities for the nation’s 17 intelligence community components over the next four years.
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/27/2014 - 5:56am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/26/2014 - 4:12pm | 0 comments
As a fierce battle rages between Kurds and the Islamic State, the fight has another front, aimed at U.S. Central Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/26/2014 - 2:36pm | 0 comments
Months after staving off a trip to the boneyard, the embattled A-10 Thunderbolt II is headed to the Middle East.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/26/2014 - 7:08am | 0 comments
Leave it to reddit to open our minds on the stark differences of our eating habits around the world.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/26/2014 - 6:09am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/25/2014 - 6:51pm | 0 comments
The 1st Infantry Division headquarters will deploy to Iraq soon as the U.S. military steps up its campaign against Islamic State militants.
by Gary Anderson | Thu, 09/25/2014 - 11:54am | 3 comments
Ebola is such a terrible disease that it has turned the norms of humanitarian relief operations upside down.
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/25/2014 - 1:07am | 0 comments
"Containment will not destroy ISIS; that is a task that only the people of the region can accomplish. But containment will buy time..."
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/25/2014 - 12:47am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/24/2014 - 11:31pm | 1 comment
The Islamic State presents a problem to be managed, not a war to be won.
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/24/2014 - 9:29pm | 5 comments
For well over a year now, the Arab Spring has struggled on life support, doomed to die with barely a whimper. Instead, it ended definitively with the bang of U.S. airstrikes in Syria.
by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 09/24/2014 - 3:13pm | 0 comments
A civilian’s perspective on our COIN efforts in Eastern Afghanistan. A just released book written for field grade military and civilian equivalents.
by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 09/24/2014 - 2:37pm | 3 comments
The number of American cities that have the presence of at least one of the seven major Mexican Drug Cartels have more than tripled since 2010...
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/24/2014 - 12:18am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/23/2014 - 11:50pm | 0 comments
As the U.S. expands its war against the Islamic State, the Army is preparing to deploy a division headquarters to Iraq.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/23/2014 - 10:45pm | 0 comments
Traditionalists have long held amphibious warfare to be the defining characteristic of Marines while simultaneously displaying a strong aversion to Corps participation in irregular warfare.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/23/2014 - 9:38am | 4 comments
"Underestimating an adversary’s will to win can be a costly mistake in war, as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper noted in an interview last week."
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/23/2014 - 12:12am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/22/2014 - 6:05pm | 0 comments
Continue on for the latest online issue of the U.S. Army War College Quarterly Parameters.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/22/2014 - 1:43pm | 3 comments
"While looking at the effectiveness of a doctrine like COIN in past conflicts is instructive, it can’t be the only factor that determines how the U.S. prepares its troops for combat."
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/22/2014 - 6:57am | 0 comments
ISIS, Air Power, Land Power and Clausewitz at The Bridge.