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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/10/2013 - 10:56am | 4 comments

"Positive results are exceedingly rare with the most challenging and troubled partners—the very situations for which officials desperately hope SC to work miracles."

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/10/2013 - 8:25am | 0 comments

Via Stand To: "The seminar wargame consists of two working groups generating ideas that will drive concepts development and explore potential capabilities".

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/10/2013 - 5:57am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/10/2013 - 5:22am | 0 comments

"An audacious band of citizen militias battles a brutal drug cartel in the hills of central Mexico."

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/09/2013 - 10:09am | 9 comments

Learning to Eat Cheerios with a Fork

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/09/2013 - 12:37am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 09/08/2013 - 1:00am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/07/2013 - 5:42am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/06/2013 - 7:13am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/05/2013 - 11:43pm | 5 comments

"They are embarrassed to be associated with the amateurism of the Obama administration’s attempts to craft a plan that makes strategic sense."

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/05/2013 - 8:17pm | 0 comments

BLUF: "The reality is that war has not changed, but instead has merely gone back to the future."

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/05/2013 - 4:11pm | 0 comments

"Kerry clarified, sort of: 'We don’t want to go to war. We don’t believe we are going to war in the classic sense of taking American troops and America to war.'"

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/05/2013 - 2:59pm | 1 comment

VOA video and overview of General Dempsey's briefing on Capitol Hill.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/05/2013 - 8:04am | 0 comments

“If you don’t have a strategy, you don’t know what comes next.”

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/05/2013 - 6:27am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/04/2013 - 8:53pm | 1 comment

"Despite spending billions to catalyze rule-of-law improvements, international actors have a poor record of success."

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/04/2013 - 1:29pm | 2 comments

This Rand report considers the goals an intervention relying on airpower alone might pursue and examines the requirements, military potential, and risks of five principal missions.

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/04/2013 - 7:06am | 3 comments

Fostering Military Entrepreneurs: The ‘Disruptive Thinkers’ Plan a Conference at Armed Forces Journal.

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/04/2013 - 6:37am | 0 comments

Continue on for the September-October 2013 Edition of Military Review.

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/04/2013 - 5:32am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/03/2013 - 1:00pm | 0 comments

Small Wars Journal El Centro Senior Fellows John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker new book: Studies in Gangs and Cartels.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/03/2013 - 12:40pm | 0 comments

Continue on for the Summer 2013 Issue of Parameters.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/03/2013 - 7:26am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/02/2013 - 2:54pm | 6 comments

SWJ's former Editor Peter Munson at War on the Rocks: "For over a decade, America has bullied and bruised its way through crisis after crisis..."

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/02/2013 - 1:37pm | 1 comment

Documentary Sample Reel for 'Above and Beyond: The Birth of the Israeli Air Force'