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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 SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/06/2012 - 9:33am | 0 comments

Last October, US Intel report reveiled that foreign economic espionage worth billions of dollars is being driven by China and Russia

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 01/06/2012 - 8:18am | 1 comment

The Pentagon does not have a resource problem

by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 01/06/2012 - 7:00am | 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, 01/06/2012 - 4:03am | 1 comment

Policy Debate: Responsibility to Protect (R2P) versus Self-Containment.  Who has the responsibility to protect the people of this world?

by Adam Elkus | Thu, 01/05/2012 - 5:10pm | 1 comment

Character as a Core National Security Interest

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/05/2012 - 10:20am | 2 comments

Iran’s growing state of desperation by Fareed Zakaria The Washington Post

by Michael Martinez | Thu, 01/05/2012 - 5:16am | 0 comments

There is no substitute for leadership by example and people skills. All soldiers are "boss watchers" who take their cues from the action or inaction of their leader

by Dave Dilegge | Thu, 01/05/2012 - 5:09am | 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, 01/04/2012 - 3:33am | 2 comments

Do we have any more coherent a policy today for dealing with anti-American violence than we did ten years ago?

by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 01/04/2012 - 12:20am | 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 | Tue, 01/03/2012 - 5:30pm | 10 comments

In the Post-Colonial, Post Cold War Age, does it make sense to talk in terms of conventional and unconventional war?

by Robert Bunker | Tue, 01/03/2012 - 4:37pm | 2 comments

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note # 8: Teen Tortured, Dismembered, Beheaded by Trafficking Gang in Bethany, Oklahoma.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/03/2012 - 5:59am | 3 comments

Iraqi civilian deaths climb in 2011- Reuters

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/03/2012 - 5:26am | 9 comments

Don't Listen to the Kagans by Carl Prine, Line of Departure

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/03/2012 - 4:16am | 10 comments
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/03/2012 - 4:08am | 0 comments

3 Jan SWJ News Roundup

by Bob Weimann | Mon, 01/02/2012 - 7:08am | 0 comments

The prosecution of SSgt Wuterich proceeds despite the collapse of the associated courts martial and a dead congressman’s failed strategic legalism bid for prestige and power.

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/02/2012 - 5:37am | 1 comment

An Interview With Retired Colonel Ted Spain

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/02/2012 - 4:54am | 1 comment

The question was disturbing: Why do you live here?

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/02/2012 - 4:49am | 0 comments

Leading Sunni official in Iraq hit by roadside bomb

by Dan Morse and Aziz Alwan

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 01/01/2012 - 7:05am | 6 comments

Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) announces top five lessons learned from Iraq

by Michael Murray | Sun, 01/01/2012 - 6:52am | 15 comments

The Counterinsurgency Training Center–Afghanistan (CTC-A) has established a COIN Training continuum for both the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP)

by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 12/31/2011 - 3:05pm | 3 comments

Changed by Iraq, Military Asks What Will Stick by Julian Barnes, Wall Street Journal.

by Dave Dilegge | Fri, 12/30/2011 - 7:24pm | 1 comment

I’m suspending the daily SWJ News and Opinion Roundup for the time being. Moving 1k miles south this week to Tampa, Florida, and will have limited Internet access as well as time to provide this SWJ feature.

by Robert Tollast | Fri, 12/30/2011 - 6:33pm | 0 comments

Six dangers Iraq may face in 2012 and beyond