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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 | Sun, 09/18/2011 - 4:37am | 1 comment

Continue on for today's SWJ news and opinion roundup and a link to the USNI Daily.

by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/17/2011 - 5:39am | 0 comments

Continue on for today's SWJ news and opinion roundup and a link to the USNI Daily.

 

by Robert Haddick | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:29pm | 5 comments

My Foreign Policy column discusses a new deployment plan for the southwest Pacific. Also, does the Army need to be ready for another Afghan-sized training mission?

by Matthew Partridge | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:38am | 1 comment

Inside Account of the Afghan Campaign

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/16/2011 - 5:59am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:30pm | 3 comments

Today President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Marine Dakota Meyer for actions in Afghanistan. Continue on for the AFPS report and a beer mug full of news links.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:59am | 0 comments

The fourth issue of Infinity Journal has recently been published.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:24am | 0 comments

The Perfect Officer: Military Brass Throughout History by Henrik Bering, Hoover Institution.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:32am | 0 comments

Dr. Robert J. Bunker testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/15/2011 - 5:51am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/14/2011 - 6:28pm | 0 comments

AADPP 3 Operations: Unified Land Operations (Abridged), 14 September 2011.

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/14/2011 - 5:19pm | 0 comments

The Department of Defense has issued a change to the Unified Command Plan (UCP).

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:09am | 0 comments

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by Mike Few | Tue, 09/13/2011 - 4:57pm | 2 comments

What are you going to do now?

by Robert Haddick | Tue, 09/13/2011 - 2:03pm | 0 comments

The Army's tactics in Sadr City seemed much smarter than Fallujah in 2004. But is Sadr City really a model for future urban operations?

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/13/2011 - 11:11am | 1 comment

A must read; Captain McCain, the floor is yours; at cdr salamder about a must read Remarks by Senator John McCain at the Tailhook Symposium Honoring the Centennial of Naval Aviation.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 09/13/2011 - 7:57am | 0 comments

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by Mike Few | Mon, 09/12/2011 - 8:33am | 1 comment
What do we do now?

 

 

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 09/12/2011 - 6:54am | 0 comments

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by SWJ Editors | Sun, 09/11/2011 - 8:42am | 0 comments

We could pull every last soldier out of Iraq and Afghanistan tomorrow, but the costs of caring for them will keep climbing until at least 2040.

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 09/11/2011 - 8:27am | 0 comments

CPOST asks prominent policy makers and professors to reflect on the tenth anniversary after September 11, 2001.

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 09/11/2011 - 6:35am | 1 comment

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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/10/2011 - 8:28pm | 14 comments

Beyond Cairo, Israel Sensing a Wider Siege by Ethan Bronner, New York Times.

by SWJ Editors | Sat, 09/10/2011 - 5:50am | 1 comment

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by Robert Haddick | Fri, 09/09/2011 - 7:20pm | 5 comments

My column at Foreign Policy discusses where the U.S. military finds itself after a decade at war. The War on Terror is quickly becoming a backwater. But a golden age for grand strategists is about to arrive.