As counterinsurgency operations come to a close the military today looks to regain its past prominence as a conventional fighting force.
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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 04/16/2014 - 12:36am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 04/15/2014 - 3:51pm | 0 comments
Today, SIGAR released an audit of the $198-million effort to develop Afghan customs revenue capacity.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 04/15/2014 - 7:00am | 12 comments
"Whether you are interested in an unusual love story or in how the United States fights protracted wars, Ann Scott Tyson’s American Spartan is an important book."
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 04/15/2014 - 6:06am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 04/14/2014 - 7:50pm | 9 comments
"There’s no doubt the Russian military has the means to invade mainland Ukraine. But whether it can hold conquered territory is another question."
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 04/14/2014 - 4:43pm | 3 comments
In New Officers’ Careers, Peace Is No Dividend by Helene Cooper and Thom Shanker, New York Times
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 04/14/2014 - 1:22pm | 0 comments
The Emergence of Feral and Criminal Cities: U.S. Military Implications in a Time of Austerity by Robert J. Bunker, The Land Warfare Papers
by Scott Forster | Mon, 04/14/2014 - 11:43am | 0 comments
Hopefully, rational decisions can be made to maintain the balance among DoD’s military services and appropriations.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 04/14/2014 - 5:19am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 04/13/2014 - 9:51am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 04/12/2014 - 6:07pm | 10 comments
The US and its military partners are reaching for new tools to counter an unconventional ''3 warfares'' strategy that China is using to advance aggressive territorial claims.
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 04/12/2014 - 11:59am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 04/12/2014 - 11:31am | 3 comments
"The world’s best military establishment didn’t win in Iraq, and it won’t win in Afghanistan. Why is that?"
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 04/11/2014 - 1:38pm | 5 comments
"The Marine Corps' top enlisted leader believes the Marine Corps' quality of life is so good right now that if the service cuts back, it would actually raise morale."
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 04/11/2014 - 9:55am | 8 comments
"With the war in Afghanistan ending, FBI officials have become more willing to discuss a little-known alliance between the bureau and JSOC."
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 04/11/2014 - 9:35am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 04/11/2014 - 7:54am | 0 comments
"Supporters of the A-10 have launched an aggressive campaign to save an aircraft they say is unlike any other in the history of American aviation."
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 04/10/2014 - 11:29am | 1 comment
"We will continue to oppose the Air Force’s proposed premature divestment of the A-10 until an equally effective replacement reaches full operational capability."
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 04/10/2014 - 6:01am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 04/09/2014 - 9:03pm | 0 comments
The Smith Richardson Foundation is pleased to announce its annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers.
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 04/09/2014 - 1:43pm | 2 comments
The decision to retire a plane built specifically to support ground forces has ignited a firestorm of criticism from the airmen whose job is to embed with ground forces and spot enemy targets.
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 04/09/2014 - 8:20am | 0 comments
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