The authors listed below have published posts in the SWJ Blog. See also this separate list of authors published in the SWJ Blog.  We greatly appreciate these authors choosing to share their work to the community through us, and thank them for advancing the dialogue on the complex problems of small wars.

Speaking of complexity, this long list is in alphabetical order by first character of the byline, because that's how we've got the data.  If you're searching for a last name, try your browser's Find On Page search feature or our site search. 

Until our pre-Aug 2011 items areupdated, they will show SWJ Editors as the author due to the limitations of our prior system. You can see the real byline when you open the article.

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We also offer a few regular contributors an outlet for their work as SWJ Bloggers. They are free to post what and when they want, without editorial direction or interference. Through their years of professional achievement, they've shown us they merit our trust and this vehicle for their thoughts. By pooling together, we achieve enough volume to keep things fresh for our readers, and we gain other synergies from the huge mountain of talent. But individual contributors are, in essence, writing their own blogs.

The current SWJ Bloggers, in alphabetical order are:  Crispin Burke, Robert Bunker, Robert Haddick, Dave Kilcullen, Malcolm Nance, John Sullivan.

 

Authors List

Stan Coerr (1)
Douglas Macgregor (1)
GEN Robert W. Cone (1)
Michael Christman (1)
Anonymous Fighter Pilot (1)
Gary K. Busch (1)
Charles A. Flynn (1)
Chris Davis (1)
David Wise (1)
Alice Sweitzer (1)
Pascale Combelles Siegel (1)
Dan Cox (1)
Paul Smyth (1)
Michael L. Burgoyne (1)
Peter J. Munson (65)
William Anderson (1)
Ali Hayat (1)
Sven Ortmann (1)
Dave Duffy (1)
Michael Martinez (1)
Bob Weimann (1)
Robert Tollast (1)
Donald "Ray" Greene (1)
Ryan T. Kranc (1)
Robert C. Jones (2)
Adam Elkus (5)
Tristan Hoffmann (1)
Jason Howk (1)
Philipp Reichert (1)
James Moran (1)
Daniel R. DePetris (1)
Sid Heal (1)
Paul Olsen (2)
Doctrine Man (1)
Gene C. Kamena (1)
Roy F. Houchin II (1)
Barry M. Stentiford (1)
Philip Ulrich (1)
David Kuhn (3)
Brandt Smith (1)
Ed Judd (1)
David Abel (1)
Peter Van Buren (1)
Matthew Irvine (1)
Alejandro M. Sueldo (3)
Matthew Partridge (1)
Don Gomez (1)
Teun van Dongen (2)
Nic Jenzen-Jones (2)
Benjamin “BJ” Armstrong (1)
Erich Simmers (1)
Michael Murray (2)
Robert Farley (1)
Patrick McKinney (1)
Avinash Paliwal (1)
Morgan Smiley (1)
Garrett Wood (3)
Brock Dahl (1)
Nathan Springer (1)
Ryan Kennedy (1)
Andrew Shaver (2)
JR Hand (1)
EJ Hogendoorn (1)
Diane Maye (1)
Michael Yon (4)
Dave Maxwell (10)
Gian Gentile (5)
Robert Bunker (29)
Bill Caldwell (9)
Gary Anderson (5)
Youssef Aboul-Enein (21)
Crispin Burke (21)
Dr. Jack (5)
Mike Few (63)
SWJ Editors (3248)
Robert Haddick (325)
Bing West (22)
Robert Bateman (13)
Bill Nagle (4)
Octavian Manea (2)
Jonathan Morgenstein (1)
Niel Smith (9)
Marc Tyrrell (7)
Martin Dempsey (9)
Dave Kilcullen (15)
Janine Davidson (4)
John Nagl (17)
Ken White (2)
Frank Hoffman (15)
Paul Yingling (5)
TX Hammes (1)
Eric Walters (3)
Bob Killebrew (2)
Huba Wass de Czege (2)
John Sullivan (4)
Rob Thornton (2)
Jim Guirard (10)
Malcolm Nance (7)
Pete Mansoor (1)
William McCallister (8)
Dave Dilegge (528)
Josh Manchester (3)
Ken White (1)
Bruce Gudmundsson (2)

Author Bios

Stan Coerr

Stan Coerr is a Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve and works in the federal civil service.   He holds degrees from Duke, Harvard and the Naval War College, has been a fellow at MIT and Stanford, and was recently accepted to begin work on a doctorate at Oxford.  He is finishing a book on his time in Iraq, and his next book will be on the life and work of Dr. Bernard Fall.  Stan lives with his wife and three sons in Mclean, Virginia.  

Douglas Macgregor

Colonel (ret) Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, an author of four books and a PhD. Macgregor was commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1976 after one year at the Virginia Military Institute and four years at West Point. Macgregor’s concepts from his groundbreaking books on transformation, Breaking the Phalanx (Praeger 1997) and Transformation under Fire(Praeger 2003) have profoundly influenced thinking about transformation inside America’s ground forces, NATO the Israeli Defense Force and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. His books are available in Chinese and Hebrew. Macgregor is widely recognized as an expert on organizational design and grand strategy. He is also a frequent radio and television commentator on national security affairs.

GEN Robert W. Cone

General Robert Cone is a senior Army leader with substantial experience at all levels from platoon through corps.  He has held numerous Joint and Multinational positions throughout his career, most recently serving as III Corps Commander and as Deputy Commanding General - Operations for U.S. Forces – Iraq.  Prior to that, he served as Commanding General, Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan. General Cone commands the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). At TRADOC, he is responsible for training and educating Army Soldiers, Leaders and Civilians; developing and implementing concepts and doctrine; and designing and integrating capabilities development for the Army. He holds master’s degrees in Sociology from the University of Texas, Austin, and in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

Michael Christman

Mike Christman is a captain in the Marine Corps and an AH-1W Cobra pilot.  He deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 with HMLA-267 and is currently a forward air controller with 1st Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company.

Anonymous Fighter Pilot

The writer is a combat tested and decorated fighter pilot with over a decade of experience and 2000+ hours in multiple types.

Gary K. Busch

Dr. Gary K. Busch has had a varied career-as an international trades unionist, an academic, a businessman and a political intelligence consultant. He was a professor and Head of Department at the University of Hawaii and has been a visiting professor at several universities. He was the head of research in international affairs for a major U.S. trade union and Assistant General Secretary of an international union federation. His articles have appeared in the Economist Intelligence Unit, Wall Street Journal, WPROST, Pravda and several other news journals. He is the editor and publisher of the web-based news journal of international relations www.ocnus.net.

Charles A. Flynn

BG Charles A. Flynn currently serves as the Special Assistant to the FORSCOM Commanding General at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, after serving as the first director of the Mission Command Center of Excellence and the Acting Commander of the Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth.  He commanded the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, in Iraq and the 2-504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, during operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Chris Davis

Chris Davis is a former Army intelligence officer who served in a light infantry reconnaissance squadron in Afghanistan. He received his Masters of Arts in National Security Studies from American Military University. His thesis focused on the economic, social, and political consequences of the War on Terrorism for the American middle class. 

David Wise

David Wise is a businessman who works outside of the government contracting and defense world.  He has a great interest in international affairs and national security and publishes frequent opinion pieces out of personal interest.  In the national security field he has written frequent opinion pieces in Jane's Defence Weekly and has also appeared in Armed Forces Journal, Navy Times and the the journal published by the US Navy Postgraduate School.  He has an MALD degree in international business from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.  He is also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Alice Sweitzer

Alice Sweitzer is a research assistant in Washington, D.C.

Pascale Combelles Siegel

Pascale Combelles Siegel runs a consultancy firm, Insight Through Analysis, specializing in strategic influence in support of peace, stabilization, and counter-terrorism operations.  Most recently, she analyzed local perceptions of social, political, and military issues in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Before that, Siegel analyzed Iraqi insurgent propaganda for the US Army.  As part of this effort, she participated in the design of a "Divide and Prosper" communication campaign concept for the US Government.

Dan Cox

Dan G. Cox is an associate professor of political science for the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS). He has been with SAMS since 2008 and enjoys teaching a diverse group of Majors and Colonels from the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines as well as officers from US allied forces from around the world and civilians from various fields.

Paul Smyth

Paul Smyth has 30 years' association with the defense arena, as a military officer and later as a Head of Program at the Royal United Services Institute. He is currently the owner of R3I Consulting.

Michael L. Burgoyne

Michael L. Burgoyne is a major in the U.S. Army.  He is a foreign area officer assigned to U.S. Army, Southern Command.

Peter J. Munson

Peter J. Munson is a Marine officer, KC-130 pilot, and Middle East Foreign Area Officer currently assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command.  He is the author of two books, Iraq in Transition: The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy (Potomac, 2009) and War, Welfare, and Democracy: Rethinking America's Quest for the End of History (Potomac, forthcoming in fall 2012).  A frequent contributor to multiple journals and blogs, including his own, he is also the Editor of the Small Wars Journal.  You can follow his Twitter feed @peterjmunson.  All views are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Marine Corps or Department of Defense.