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SWJ Blog is a multi-author blog publishing news and commentary on the various goings on across the broad community of practice.  We gladly accept guest posts from serious voices in the community.

by Dave Dilegge | Sun, 09/16/2012 - 5:57am | 0 comments

Continue on for today's SWJ news and opinion roundup and links to the USNI Daily and Real Clear World.

by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 09/15/2012 - 2:51pm | 1 comment

I've been remiss this year in posting the latest from one of best military professional journals and maybe arguably the best. So here is the latest edition.

by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 09/15/2012 - 8:35am | 2 comments

Why U.S. Consulates Are More Dangerous Than War Zones by Phillip Carter at Foreign Policy. Comprehensive care and support should be provided to the civilians we send into harm's way.

by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 09/15/2012 - 7:20am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 09/14/2012 - 10:57pm | 0 comments

Are You Safer Now Than You Were Four Years Ago? Washington Post Op-Ed by Eliot Cohen. "Has President Obama been a competent steward of U.S. national security?"

by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 09/14/2012 - 10:31pm | 8 comments

Why is the Muslim World So Easily Offended? Washington Post Op-Ed by Fouad Ajami. "Modernity requires the willingness to be offended."

by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 09/14/2012 - 10:41am | 0 comments

WikiCOIN by Michael Peck at Foreign Policy. "Uncle Sam wants you -- to design its new "stability ops" video game".

by Stephen Tucker | Fri, 09/14/2012 - 7:30am | 2 comments

Following the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, ten Homeland Response Forces were directed for creation within the National Guard Bureau for a Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear response.

by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 09/14/2012 - 12:05am | 3 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 09/12/2012 - 9:32pm | 0 comments

Continue on for an early edition of the SWJ roundup. Includes coverage of events in Egypt and Libya as well as national and international reaction and commentary.

by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 09/12/2012 - 9:14pm | 0 comments

Strategic Horizons: Debating the Shape of Tomorrow's U.S. Military by Steven Metz at World Politics Review.

by Peter J. Munson | Wed, 09/12/2012 - 6:48pm | 0 comments

Spencer Ackerman provides a good first summation of an extended, coordinated attack that killed the US Ambassador to Libya at the Danger Room blog.

by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 09/12/2012 - 6:01am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 09/12/2012 - 5:17am | 1 comment

Mapping Military Needs, Aided by a Big Projection by Thom Shanker of the New York Times.

by Dave Dilegge | Tue, 09/11/2012 - 6:24am | 2 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Mon, 09/10/2012 - 3:11pm | 2 comments

Effectively reducing the likelihood and intensity of attacks by the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the perpetrators of the November 2008 assault on Mumbai, requires a cocktail of actions.

by Robert Haddick | Mon, 09/10/2012 - 2:59pm | 3 comments

With a heavy heart, I must report the end of my weekly column, This Week at War.

by Robert Bunker | Mon, 09/10/2012 - 12:59pm | 5 comments

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #13: Man Crucified in Michoacán, Mexico.

by Dave Dilegge | Mon, 09/10/2012 - 5:07am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Sun, 09/09/2012 - 9:52am | 0 comments

The End of Strategic Happy Talk?  Thoughts on Robert Kaplan's "Revenge of Geography", by Mackubin T. Owens, Foreign Policy Research Institute.

by Dave Dilegge | Sun, 09/09/2012 - 5:07am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 09/08/2012 - 3:15pm | 15 comments

Geography strikes back, a Wall Street Journal 'Saturday Essay' on global conflict by Robert Kaplan.

by Peter J. Munson | Sat, 09/08/2012 - 8:30am | 5 comments

SWJ friends Dave Maxwell, Fernando Lujan, Sean Naylor, and Ryan Evans talk special ops and foreign policy.

by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 09/08/2012 - 8:14am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 09/07/2012 - 6:33pm | 1 comment

The DoD welcomes the decision by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to designate the Haqqani network a terrorist organization.