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by Ali Hayat | Tue, 01/10/2012 - 5:05am | 2 comments
Instead of focusing on COIN versus CT, we need to view Afghanistan through the civil war lens
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/10/2012 - 4:29am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 5:35pm | 5 comments
CNAS John Nagl Stepping Down by Chris Frates National Journal
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 4:18pm | 2 comments
和平崛起 . Amitai Etzioni says its time to rethink our relationships. We do not have to have a Cold War with China.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 3:37pm | 3 comments
The Biggest Problem with American Foreign Policy by Michael Cummings On Violence
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 11:22am | 2 comments
Iraq, the unravelling (Part LXVII) by Tom Ricks, The Best Defense
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 6:55am | 3 comments
The SECDEF is looking at how to cut $480 billion from the Pentagon's bottom line
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 5:55am | 17 comments
Seeking active participation from all small wars stakeholders
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 5:48am | 0 comments
The switch to counterinsurgency, which involves more restraint by the military, was billed as a change that would save the U.S. mission, not primarily as a strategy to reduce civilian deaths.
by Dave Dilegge | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 5:40am | 0 comments
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by Mike Few | Sun, 01/08/2012 - 5:07am | 7 comments
Paddy Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before.
by Dave Dilegge | Sun, 01/08/2012 - 4:42am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 01/07/2012 - 4:43pm | 2 comments
An Afghan investigative commission accused the American military Saturday of abuse at its main prison in the country, repeating President Hamid Karzai's demand that the U.S. turn over all detainees to Afghan custody and saying anyone held without evidence should be freed.
by Bing West | Sat, 01/07/2012 - 3:33pm | 5 comments
Abandoning COIN would doom the U.S. military to irrelevance and impotence, write Christopher Sims and Fernando Luján. Not so, says Bing West; the U.S. will be much less ambitious in future wars.
by Sven Ortmann | Sat, 01/07/2012 - 7:25am | 4 comments
Soldiers are like firefighters; they should be equipped, competent and be sent when a house burns in the neighbourhood.
by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 01/07/2012 - 6:23am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 01/07/2012 - 5:32am | 0 comments
China calls on U.S. to move past Cold War mentality
by Adam Elkus | Sat, 01/07/2012 - 4:58am | 3 comments
Why you would you fight a war if you didn’t want to win?
by Robert Haddick | Fri, 01/06/2012 - 7:22pm | 0 comments
In my Foreign Policy column, I ponder Iran's calculations over the Strait of Hormuz. I also examine the risks inside Obama's new defense strategy.
by Dave Duffy | Fri, 01/06/2012 - 2:05pm | 0 comments
After reading the Strategic Guidance released yesterday by the President and SECDEF, I was encouraged by it for the most part. While this is not to be confused with a strategy, there is guidance, so that is a good thing.
by Robert Haddick | Fri, 01/06/2012 - 1:41pm | 0 comments
In an essay for Time, Captain Bingham Jamison, USMCR, himself an Iraq war veteran, remembers Spc David Emanuel Hickman, the last American to die in the Iraq war.
by Robert Haddick | Fri, 01/06/2012 - 1:21pm | 1 comment
The U.S. Fifth Fleet just released a statement that described the rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen and their vessel, which pirates had held for at least 40 days.