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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/13/2014 - 12:23am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/12/2014 - 12:21pm | 15 comments
“Although the Army has dominated the battlefield technologically in the recent past, that's no guarantee against an increasingly agile, adaptive foe.”
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/12/2014 - 11:34am | 0 comments
A new documentary offers a cautionary tale about putting too much faith in technology and forgetting hard-fought lessons from the past.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/12/2014 - 11:14am | 0 comments
What lessons can we learn from the 3rd Platoon’s experience in Afghanistan? A NR interview with Bing West.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/12/2014 - 3:13am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/11/2014 - 11:50pm | 8 comments
“We are deluding ourselves if we do not recognize the unique ways and means of American warfare...”
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/05/2014 - 2:33am | 21 comments
Russia’s utilization of troops without uniforms and perhaps “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have seen” were part of the first Russian push in Ukraine.
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/04/2014 - 1:47pm | 0 comments
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by Gary Anderson | Thu, 09/04/2014 - 3:01am | 4 comments
The tepid response of the western powers is not just a failure of leadership; it is a failure of imagination. There are other options available to make Putin pay a price.
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/03/2014 - 9:49am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/03/2014 - 12:19am | 0 comments
After eight years working to educate soldiers on counterinsurgency, one of the Army Irregular Warfare Center’s last actions was similar to its first: Updating the field’s bedrock document.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:11am | 3 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/02/2014 - 1:03am | 3 comments
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has called ISIS “as sophisticated and well funded as any group that we have seen ... beyond anything we have seen.”
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:12am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 08/31/2014 - 9:00pm | 15 comments
Department of Defense Directive 3000.07 - Irregular Warfare (IW) Dated August 28, 2014
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 08/31/2014 - 1:57pm | 0 comments
"Some guidelines for journalists reporting from extremist content on social media…"
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 08/31/2014 - 1:27pm | 0 comments
"… All but one of the commanders were killed. And thus, perhaps, was born the Israeli ethos of commanders leading from the front..."
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 08/31/2014 - 12:56am | 0 comments
The problem from a military strategists’ point of view, however, is that no army has ever fought it out in a city of this size…
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 08/31/2014 - 12:14am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 08/30/2014 - 11:08pm | 0 comments
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said China will spur military innovation and called on the army to create a new strategy for "information warfare"...
by Joe Byerly | Sat, 08/30/2014 - 6:09am | 0 comments
Choosing “exit” or “voice” has relevance for those of us who are passionate about being a member of the profession of arms.
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 08/30/2014 - 12:19am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 08/29/2014 - 7:58pm | 2 comments
It’s "a time when our unique talents as special operators are in the greatest demand. A time when the nation recognizes the strategic value of our services..."
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 08/29/2014 - 5:29pm | 1 comment
"The United States does not have good or quick options in dealing with the Islamic State..."