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by Robert Haddick | Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:00am | 1 comment

Did the Chinese military interfere with two NASA satellites in 2007 and 2008? And was this a rehearsal for a broader anti-satellite strategy?

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:35am | 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, 10/26/2011 - 8:50pm | 0 comments

LTC John Paganini, Director of the US Army COIN Center, will discuss the way-ahead for the revision process of FM 3-24 and how the "new" manual will fit within the Army Doctrine 2015 construct.

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:34am | 0 comments

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by Dave Dilegge | Tue, 10/25/2011 - 8:27pm | 0 comments

Why Are 13 US Navy Commandos In Libyan Mass Graves? Bring Them Home, Now!

by Dave Dilegge | Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:17pm | 1 comment

Well since Spence at DR had to bring up “Air Force’s ‘Not Science Fiction’ Commercial Totally Is” here is an oldie but goodie rebuttal from Sweden.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 10/25/2011 - 5:59pm | 0 comments

The Center for Complex Operations is pleased to invite you to the 7th International Lessons Learned Conference: For Practitioners and Policy Makers: Sharing Lessons on the Conduct and Design of Stability Operations.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 10/25/2011 - 5:55pm | 4 comments

Hopefully the realities of the fiscal environment will force leaders to rethink existing programs and missions in order to optimize capabilities across the services

by Robert Bunker | Tue, 10/25/2011 - 3:24pm | 0 comments

Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 6: 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment: 40% Increase in Active Gang Members from 2009 to 1.4 Million.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 10/25/2011 - 6:05am | 0 comments

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by Michael Yon | Mon, 10/24/2011 - 6:51pm | 1 comment

Golden Seconds: Open Letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and President Barack Obama.

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 10/24/2011 - 6:20pm | 1 comment

Beyond The Battlefield: Lack Of Long-Term Care Can Lead To Tragic Ends For Wounded Veterans - a 10 part series by David Wood at Huffington Post.

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 10/24/2011 - 5:23pm | 0 comments

An Assessment of Mexican Security Based on Existing RAND Research on Urban Unrest, Insurgency, and Defense-Sector Reform by Christopher Paul, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, and Colin P. Clarke.

by Robert Bunker | Mon, 10/24/2011 - 2:11pm | 0 comments

Indications & Warning (I&W): VBIED Anti-Vehicular/Anti-Personnel Ambush Capability for Los Zetas [Assumed].

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 10/24/2011 - 4:02am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 10/24/2011 - 3:39am | 0 comments

Key General Calls Iraq Pullout Plan a ‘Disaster’ by Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times.

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 10/23/2011 - 6:27pm | 0 comments

Short-Lived 1987 Sitcom "Second Chance" Foreshadowed Gaddafi's 2011 Death, Continue on for the Video.

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 10/23/2011 - 8:02am | 9 comments

The most profound legacy of the American intervention in Iraq may be the way it changed the U.S. military’s understanding of war.

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 10/23/2011 - 4:59am | 0 comments

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by Barry M. Stentiford | Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:44am | 17 comments

Is the ethnically-based nation-state the modern Tower of Babel?

by SWJ Editors | Sat, 10/22/2011 - 12:16am | 0 comments

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by Robert Haddick | Fri, 10/21/2011 - 8:49pm | 1 comment

In my Foreign Policy column, I discuss why the Pentagon is having so much trouble coming up with a doctrine for cyber warfare. I also discuss why everyone, especially other dictators, is studying Qaddafi's downfall.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 10/21/2011 - 9:26am | 1 comment

Don't Rush to Gut Ground Forces by Nathan Freier, AOL Defense.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 10/21/2011 - 4:30am | 0 comments

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

by Philip Ulrich | Thu, 10/20/2011 - 6:20pm | 2 comments

Qaddafi is dead.  So what?