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by Robert Haddick | Thu, 12/29/2011 - 5:13pm | 2 comments
Here's three for 2012: prioritize ground force missions, focus shipbuilding on three proven designs, and prepare for the cultural implications of long-range strike.
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 12/29/2011 - 7:42am | 14 comments
The book traces Petraeus' career from West Point cadet to his command of two wars deemed unwinnable: Iraq and Afghanistan.
by Dave Dilegge | Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:30am | 0 comments
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by Dave Dilegge | Thu, 12/29/2011 - 1:10am | 6 comments
Iraq Surge’s Advocates Fear Gains Will Be Lost by Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times.
by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 12/28/2011 - 10:57pm | 0 comments
Release of Pakistan/Afghanistan Cross-Border Fire Investigation Repor.
by Robert Bunker | Wed, 12/28/2011 - 4:01pm | 0 comments
Mexico’s Vietnam War? Soldier-to-Criminal Exchange Rates and Narco Battlefield Deaths in Context.
by Youssef Aboul-Enein | Wed, 12/28/2011 - 4:44am | 1 comment
Predicting future conflicts between states are contingent upon an appreciation of a host of complex factors such as tribal, social, economic, environmental, cultural and even basic survival.
by Dave Dilegge | Wed, 12/28/2011 - 12:52am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Tue, 12/27/2011 - 6:30am | 3 comments
Will the next iteration of the Arab Spring take root in Baghdad?
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 12/27/2011 - 5:30am | 12 comments
The Military Irrelevance Of Hearts And Minds
by Dave Dilegge | Mon, 12/26/2011 - 11:18pm | 0 comments
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by Dave Dilegge | Mon, 12/26/2011 - 6:59pm | 3 comments
How Iraq, Afghanistan Have Changed The Military - NPR’s Talk of the Nation with guests John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post.
by Robert Haddick | Mon, 12/26/2011 - 9:53am | 2 comments
My Foreign Policy article discusses why South Korea should change its defense focus. I also discuss why the U.S. Air Force has already lost the Battle for Taiwan.
by Dave Dilegge | Mon, 12/26/2011 - 4:04am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 12/25/2011 - 11:19am | 1 comment
Governor flees Province, 2000 march in protest, Sunnis and Kurds demand autonomous zones, violence erupts, Chritians cancel Christmas
by Gian Gentile | Sun, 12/25/2011 - 9:56am | 15 comments
A stake needs to be driven through the heart of the notion that counterinsurgency represents effective strategy.
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 12/25/2011 - 5:09am | 5 comments
Enemy (even just foreign) perspective and the phenomenon of counter-state efficacy is indeed overlooked
by Dave Dilegge | Sun, 12/25/2011 - 4:58am | 0 comments
Peace on earth and goodwill to all men. Continue on for today's SWJ news and opinion roundup and links to the USNI Daily and Real Clear World.
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 12/24/2011 - 9:04am | 3 comments
Is the word “peace’’ disappearing from our national conversation?
by Donald "Ray" Greene | Sat, 12/24/2011 - 6:05am | 1 comment
Of course we must maintain a strong military option as a final alternative when diplomacy doesn’t work, but all too often the military option has been the first and only option when dealing with international problems.
by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 12/24/2011 - 5:41am | 0 comments
Peace on earth and goodwill to all men. Continue on for today's SWJ news and opinion roundup and links to the USNI Daily and Real Clear World.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 12/23/2011 - 2:03pm | 10 comments
Over the past 40 years, the one consistent face of war with which we have been confronted is irregular warfare.