What Gives Boko Haram its Strength by David Jacobson, Atta Barkindo and Derek Harvey, CNN
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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 05/12/2014 - 7:05am | 0 comments
Continue on for a link to the WOTR interview with yours truly - Dave D.
by Butch Bracknell and Adam Tharp | Mon, 05/12/2014 - 5:14am | 9 comments
David Francis must have been working against deadline when he wrote “Why Afghanistan Might Be the Marines’ Last Fight” (The Fiscal Times, May 6, 2013).
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 05/12/2014 - 12:10am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 05/11/2014 - 12:10am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 05/10/2014 - 12:09am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 05/09/2014 - 6:31pm | 0 comments
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is not a happy camper.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 05/09/2014 - 5:08am | 4 comments
Interview Transcript: Former Head of the NSA and Commander of the US Cyber Command, General Keith Alexander
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 05/09/2014 - 4:56am | 0 comments
Continue on for information on the Center for a New American Security's Eighth Annual National Security Conference.
by John P. Sullivan | Fri, 05/09/2014 - 4:50am | 1 comment
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has released a new, comprehensive report, titled Mexico’s Police: Many Reforms, Little Progress.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 05/09/2014 - 12:11am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Thu, 05/08/2014 - 5:00pm | 1 comment
"The US Army will not be very successful in the coming operating environment unless it develops a sense of strategic understanding..."
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 05/08/2014 - 8:49am | 1 comment
"No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan" - Book review by Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Michigan War Studies Review
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 05/08/2014 - 7:56am | 0 comments
“If our mission is to set the stage for Afghanistan’s success… it would be a mistake to help deprive Afghanistan of its most important resource: human capital.”
by John P. Sullivan | Thu, 05/08/2014 - 7:27am | 0 comments
Mexico Is Not Colombia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations - RAND Corporation
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 05/08/2014 - 12:12am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 7:54pm | 0 comments
2014 Salute to Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans - Video of Speech by General James N. Mattis, USMC (Ret.)
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 5:13pm | 0 comments
Explaining Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency - New York Times
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 2:20pm | 0 comments
Paging Dr. Abrams: Why This Soldier Thinks We Need a Commission on the Structure of the Army by Adam Maisel, Defense in Depth
by Bing West | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 2:03pm | 2 comments
"The Joint Pub doubles down on the proposition that war is an exercise in civics rather than in destruction."
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 10:50am | 0 comments
U.S. Military Learns COIN Lessons, but They Might Not Be Enough by Steven Metz, World Politics Review
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 3:10am | 0 comments
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by Robert Bunker | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 3:34pm | 0 comments
"Three enforcers hired by Mexico’s biggest drug cartel flew from Los Angeles to Minnesota last month, kidnapped two local teenagers, and then tortured them for hours."
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 10:08am | 1 comment
"Companies such as IRD were left to manage hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of taxpayer-funded programs with little meaningful oversight from USAID."
by Scott Forster | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 9:34am | 0 comments
Continue on for the latest Landpower update.