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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 | Sat, 07/28/2012 - 8:18am | 0 comments

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

by Gabriel Lajeunesse | Fri, 07/27/2012 - 5:57am | 3 comments

Without smart choices and course corrections in the near term, the much debated decline of America could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

by Dave Dilegge | Thu, 07/26/2012 - 7:37pm | 0 comments

A one-day break, have a big event on Friday concerning my 'day job'.

by Dave Dilegge | Thu, 07/26/2012 - 8:35am | 0 comments

Continue on for the U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues.

by Dave Dilegge | Thu, 07/26/2012 - 8:17am | 0 comments

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by Daniel R. DePetris | Thu, 07/26/2012 - 6:01am | 1 comment

The Free Syrian Army has taken the fight into Bashar al-Assad’s seat of power, invalidating the regime’s narrative of total control.

by Peter J. Munson | Wed, 07/25/2012 - 9:46pm | 0 comments

Pointer to an interview by frequent SWJ contributor Bob Tollast.

by Peter J. Munson | Wed, 07/25/2012 - 7:14pm | 0 comments

A new RAND occasional paper from Ben Connable.

by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 07/25/2012 - 5:46am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Tue, 07/24/2012 - 1:08pm | 0 comments

West Point's Combating Terrorism Center has released the July 2012 Issue of the CTC Sentinel. The new issue can be downloaded here.

by Dave Dilegge | Tue, 07/24/2012 - 6:16am | 0 comments

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by Robert Bunker | Mon, 07/23/2012 - 4:21pm | 0 comments

Continue on for a recent article and report by SWJ El Centro Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown.

by Jeffrey Payne and Chris Chapman | Mon, 07/23/2012 - 5:07am | 7 comments

If the international community will not directly intercede in the conflict, then it must support the opposition.

by Dave Dilegge | Mon, 07/23/2012 - 12:07am | 1 comment

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by Dave Dilegge | Sun, 07/22/2012 - 4:44am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 07/21/2012 - 5:38am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 07/20/2012 - 5:14pm | 1 comment

Counterinsurgency Center: Dynamics of Insurgency: Join the COIN Center for a Webcast (26 July) featuring LTC Mark Ulrich who will discuss the eight dynamics of an insurgency.

by Robert Haddick | Fri, 07/20/2012 - 2:55pm | 5 comments

Iran is tripping up the "Pacific Pivot." Contrary to its plans, the Pacific is now the Pentagon's "economy of force" theater of operations.

by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 07/20/2012 - 6:26am | 0 comments

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by Don Gomez | Fri, 07/20/2012 - 5:51am | 3 comments

Don Gomez of Carrying the Gun weighs in.

by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 07/20/2012 - 3:48am | 5 comments

U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan: Five Lessons We Should Have Learned by Joshua Foust, American Security Project.

by Dave Dilegge | Thu, 07/19/2012 - 5:28am | 0 comments

Syrian forces and rebels have clashed in several neighborhoods of Damascus, and helicopters are reported to have fired on targets from the air, after at least three top government officials died in a bomb attack Wednesday.

by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 07/18/2012 - 5:53am | 1 comment

Continue on for today's SWJ news and opinion roundup and links to the USNI Daily and Real Clear World. Note: No Roundup 19-20 July.

by Dave Dilegge | Tue, 07/17/2012 - 12:15am | 0 comments

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

by Paul Rexton Kan | Mon, 07/16/2012 - 6:34pm | 0 comments

The apparent election of Enrique Pena-Nieto as President of Mexico is a development that is full of irony and contradictions