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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 09/15/2013 - 9:10am | 1 comment
"Recently, U.S. Army Best Ranger Jeff Struecker returned to Somalia twenty years after he fought in the battle that inspired the book and movie Black Hawk Down."
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 09/15/2013 - 1:07am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/14/2013 - 9:58pm | 0 comments
Continue on for the Institute of Land Warfare's 2013 publications.
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/14/2013 - 4:00pm | 0 comments
The Antiterror Spy Left Out in the Cold - Wall Street Journal's ‘The Weekend Interview’ With Robert Seldon Lady, by Matthew Kaminski.
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/14/2013 - 7:45am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/13/2013 - 11:37pm | 3 comments
“Marty and I both would say that the nation needs to keep the capacity to defeat another nation on the ground...we don’t see... a long fight. We can’t afford it.”
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/13/2013 - 5:37pm | 0 comments
"The civilian policy makers and generals who led Mr. Obama toward a troop escalation in Afghanistan during his first year in office have been replaced by a handpicked leadership."
by Crispin Burke | Fri, 09/13/2013 - 4:51pm | 1 comment
During the Cold War misguided elites were referred to as “useful idiots“. Now some service members have fallen directly into that trap.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/13/2013 - 4:42pm | 0 comments
Dr. Michael Noonan's USN&WR Op-Ed in Response to MG Robert Scales' WP Op-Ed.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/13/2013 - 6:30am | 0 comments
By Major Ben Zweibelson, Lieutenant Colonel Grant Martin, and Dr. Christopher Paparone, all frequent contributors to Small Wars Journal and established design theory proponents.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/13/2013 - 6:16am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/12/2013 - 11:23pm | 2 comments
"The families of the fallen are entitled to war-weariness. So are those wounded in body or spirit, and their loved ones."
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/12/2013 - 9:21pm | 1 comment
LTG David Barno's WP Op-Ed in Response to MG Robert Scales' WP Op-Ed.
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/12/2013 - 7:34pm | 0 comments
Dr. Michael O'Hanlon's WP Op-Ed in Response to MG Robert Scales' WP Op-Ed.
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/12/2013 - 1:51pm | 0 comments
"He put this proposal forward and he’s now invested in it."
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/12/2013 - 1:19pm | 0 comments
Counterinsurgency in Crisis: Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare by David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell, Columbia University Press (Available October 2013).
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/12/2013 - 2:00am | 1 comment
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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/11/2013 - 5:10pm | 9 comments
Continue on for a disturbing video featuring CUNY 'students' (of what I'd like to know) confronting an American hero on the streets.
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/11/2013 - 5:52am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/11/2013 - 4:45am | 0 comments
Via DEF: Major General H.R. McMaster's thoughts on how we might improve our understanding of war and warfare.
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/11/2013 - 3:00am | 0 comments
Continue on for a full transcript of remarks by President Obama on Syria as delivered last night.
by Kevin Benson | Tue, 09/10/2013 - 11:34am | 0 comments
If I were a part of the planning team I would ask what the assumptions are that underpin the policy making and planning.