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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 | Thu, 09/01/2011 - 4:05pm | 0 comments

Beyond the Tenth Year: The Afghan National Security Force, a Foreign Policy Research Institute Webcast/Teleconference.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/01/2011 - 3:55pm | 2 comments

“Counterinsurgency: History, Theory, and Practice,” a day-long symposium on the military doctrine that has officially guided the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2007.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 09/01/2011 - 5:45am | 0 comments

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

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 08/31/2011 - 5:55pm | 3 comments

Continue on for American Forces Press Service coverage and additional news and commentary links regarding today's military retirement of General David H. Petraeus.

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 08/31/2011 - 7:20am | 0 comments

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

by Mike Few | Tue, 08/30/2011 - 9:45pm | 0 comments

"Captain Tickles"  checks in to GSGF

by Benjamin “BJ” Armstrong | Tue, 08/30/2011 - 4:41pm | 0 comments

A SWJ / USNI Blog Crosspost: The M/V Caravos Horizon - Rotorheads and the Royal Navy in Maritime Security Operations.

by John A. Nagl | Tue, 08/30/2011 - 10:29am | 0 comments

Via e-mail from Guy Filippelli, Veterans Transition Program Chairman, National Italian American Foundation.

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 08/30/2011 - 5:40am | 0 comments

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

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 08/29/2011 - 9:05pm | 1 comment

A National Strategic Learning Disability? By Lieutenant General James M. Dubik (USA Ret.), Army Magazine. "America's performance at the national strategic level has been lacking."

by Robert Bunker | Mon, 08/29/2011 - 12:39pm | 0 comments

The deployment of narco armored cars and improvised armored fighting vehicles in Mexico as a byproduct of the criminal insurgencies taking place.

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 08/29/2011 - 8:43am | 20 comments

Chris Rawley at Information Dissemination: Libya Lessons: Supremacy of the SOF-Airpower Team… Or, Why Do We Still Need a Huge Army?

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 08/29/2011 - 4:58am | 0 comments

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

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 08/29/2011 - 4:20am | 4 comments

US Tactics in Libya May Be a Model for Other Efforts by Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Meyers, New York Times.

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 08/28/2011 - 5:16am | 0 comments

SWJ Daily Roundup for 28 August - Part II. New items and carryover of top news from the early edition.

by Dave Dilegge | Sat, 08/27/2011 - 7:49pm | 0 comments

Irene is closing in on my undisclosed location and while I have the generator primed and ready there is a slight chance I will not be able to post in the wee hours tomorrow.  So here is an early edition of the SWJ News and Opinion Roundup.  Don’t forget to check out the USNI Daily - good stuff.

by Erich Simmers | Sat, 08/27/2011 - 8:22am | 9 comments

 A Response to “Teaching COIN to a (Mostly) Non-Practitioner Audience"

by SWJ Editors | Sat, 08/27/2011 - 7:05am | 0 comments

West Point's Combating Terrorism Center has released the August 2011 Issue of the CTC Sentinel.

by SWJ Editors | Sat, 08/27/2011 - 6:16am | 0 comments

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

by Robert Haddick | Fri, 08/26/2011 - 4:11pm | 0 comments

My column this week at Foreign Policy explains why the Obama administration's "Libya Model" for intervention is far from proven.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:23pm | 4 comments

The Army's Reading List: A Look Into the New Joint Chiefs Chairman by Nate Rawlings at Time Magazine’s Battleland Blog.

by Michael Murray | Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:28am | 1 comment

Teaching lessons from the field

by Robert Farley | Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:15am | 1 comment

AAR on one small wars class

by Youssef Aboul-Enein | Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:07am | 17 comments

Better understanding Pakistan

by Patrick McKinney | Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:25am | 0 comments

Time to intervene in Somalia