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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/17/2014 - 9:33pm | 1 comment

Drones and Apaches Are the Army’s New Aerial Scouts - And Not Everyone Is Thrilled by David Axe, War is Boring

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/17/2014 - 7:17pm | 0 comments

Continue on for an AFPS overview of Obama’s address on NSA data-collection program reform and links to related news articles and resources.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/17/2014 - 6:21pm | 0 comments

Continue on for Parameters, Winter 2013-14

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/17/2014 - 2:15pm | 0 comments

Video Podcast: Counterinsurgency in Crisis at War on the Rocks.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/17/2014 - 10:19am | 0 comments

The U.S. military is slated to shed 150,000 soldiers. Can it still go to war with so few?

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/17/2014 - 12:06am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/16/2014 - 3:55pm | 1 comment

British defense cuts mean the country can no longer be a full military partner of the United States, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/16/2014 - 12:00am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/15/2014 - 12:14am | 4 comments

Studying War and Warfare by Major General H.R. McMaster, War Council

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/15/2014 - 12:12am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/14/2014 - 3:22pm | 12 comments

Mexican security forces sent to quell unrest in the western state of Michoacan have started disarming local vigilante groups, state officials say.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/14/2014 - 3:00pm | 0 comments

US Special Operations in PACOM, Special Warfare Magazine

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/14/2014 - 8:53am | 0 comments

Hong Kong Triads Work with Mexican Drug Lords on Methamphetamine by Brian Harris, South China Morning Post.

by Scott Forster | Tue, 01/14/2014 - 7:35am | 1 comment

After experiencing some technical difficulties changing over to our new website, everything now appears to be working smoothly...

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/14/2014 - 7:32am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/13/2014 - 5:41am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 01/12/2014 - 1:58am | 5 comments

Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen, reviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs.

by SWJ Editors | Sat, 01/11/2014 - 10:39pm | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/10/2014 - 10:30pm | 7 comments

I'm a free born man of the USA.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/10/2014 - 9:54pm | 3 comments

Iraq’s High-Stakes Struggle - Council on Foreign Relations Interview With Jane Arraf, Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor and Al Jazeera, Baghdad. Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/10/2014 - 9:06pm | 1 comment

Voice The Decay of the Profession of Arms by Major Matthew Cavanaugh, Foreign Policy’s Best Defense.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/10/2014 - 9:38am | 0 comments

Stop the presses: Robert Gates has a revealing memoir that provides penetrating new insights into how Washington works.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/10/2014 - 8:50am | 27 comments

"Robert Gates’s tenure running the Pentagon might go down as the greatest performance in acting history."

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/10/2014 - 8:33am | 0 comments

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by Robert Bunker | Thu, 01/09/2014 - 4:02pm | 0 comments

The authors urge the U.S. to revisit the concept of hemispheric defense and develop and execute a new military strategy that will help maintain stability and prosperity in Latin America.