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by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/13/2012 - 1:01pm | 3 comments

An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010 by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/13/2012 - 8:10am | 6 comments

Statement from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James F. Amos, on the Afghanistan video incident.

by Martin Dempsey | Fri, 01/13/2012 - 7:43am | 4 comments

Speaking at Duke University 12 Jan 2012

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/13/2012 - 7:19am | 36 comments

Pop-COIN and ‘The Death of American Strategy’ by A.E. Stahl Defenceiq

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/13/2012 - 4:44am | 0 comments

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

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/13/2012 - 3:53am | 0 comments

My Mesopotamian Getaway by Emma Sky Foreign Policy

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/12/2012 - 3:21pm | 1 comment

Are nuclear scientists lawful combatants subject for targeting in modern war?

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/12/2012 - 8:08am | 1 comment

A New Kind of NATO by Sean Kay Foreign Policy

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/12/2012 - 5:52am | 0 comments

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

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/12/2012 - 5:04am | 4 comments

Marine Corps Manual Offers Blunt, Revealing Portrait of Afghan War at the Washington Post and Afghanistan, Operational Culture for Deploying Personnel at Public Intelligence.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/12/2012 - 3:27am | 2 comments

Al Jazeera asks what do possible peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban mean for Afghanistan's future?

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 8:52pm | 1 comment
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 6:43pm | 1 comment

A remnant of a decades-old party perks system, the luxe wheels are a conspicuous target of growing public outrage over the privileges of the elite

by Adam Elkus | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 5:46pm | 4 comments

A Review of The Sovereignty Solution

by William Anderson | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 9:59am | 3 comments

The Moro War, How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 8:40am | 0 comments

How Do Presidents Make Decisions During War?

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 8:12am | 0 comments

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

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 8:00am | 1 comment

A Balanced Review of "The Operators" by Ann Marlowe

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 5:22am | 0 comments

SWJ quote of 2012 (H/T French Defence Analysis Stéphane Taillat)

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/11/2012 - 1:55am | 1 comment

AirSea Battle: A Prisoner's Dilemma or A Game of Chicken?

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/10/2012 - 7:31pm | 0 comments

A Chinese Policy for Central Asia? by Joshua Foust Registan.net

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/10/2012 - 6:32pm | 0 comments

Arab Spring: The Fight for the Old Silk Road (Economic Trade Routes/Power Center)

by Robert Haddick | Tue, 01/10/2012 - 6:06pm | 0 comments

CRS has an update out on China's navy. Analysts need to do more reporting on China's missiles and the PLA's "kill chain."

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/10/2012 - 4:06pm | 0 comments

Revolutions Are Violent by Eric Cummings On Violence

by Mike Few | Tue, 01/10/2012 - 10:47am | 1 comment

How Do Societies Mend After Civil War?