Dave Dilegge

Dave Dilegge is Editor-in-Chief of Small Wars Journal and serves as a Director at Small Wars Foundation. He is a retired USMCR Intelligence and Counterintelligence/HUMINT officer, and former USMC civilian intelligence analyst, as well as a defense consultant in the private sector.

Contact Dave at dave@smallwarsjournal.com.

Disjointed Ways, Disunified Means: Learning from America's Struggle to Build an Afghan Nation by Colonel Lewis G. Irwin, U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute.

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The United States is reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan serving as a safe haven for terrorists attacking American forces in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said here...

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The Age of Unsatisfying Wars - New York Times opinion piece by John Nagl.

The End of Counterinsurgency by George Friedman of Stratfor, via Real Clear World.