Discriminate Power: A Strategy for a Sustainable National Security Posture by Michael J. Mazarr and the NDU Strategy Study Group, Foreign Policy Research Institute.

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Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security by Thom Shanker, New York Times.

The Insurgent’s Playbook: Start Cumulative, Go Sequential by James R. Holmes, The Diplomat.

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SOCOM's Goal: Pre-Empt Wars by Howard Altman, Tampa Tribune

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Military Culture Still Refuses to Include Women by Major General (USA Ret.) Robert Scales, Washington Post op-ed.

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Millionaire’s Private Navy Ready to Take on Somali Pirates - Mike Schuler at gCaptain.

When a state is unable to maintain its monopoly on violence, power-vacuums inevitably arise.

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If Patriot and Iron Dome made Israelis feel more secure, then they succeeded at their most important task.

Monday, 6 May. Hopefully in a new (Drudge-like) format.

Wed Night Tune: Body of an American by The Pogues.

Special Ops Bravado Hurts National Security - CNN Op-Ed by Michele L. Malvesti and Nancy Walbridge Collins.

An important article in yesterday's NY Times by Randal Archibold, Damien Cave, and Ginger Thompson. 

Singer Jesus “Chuy” Quintanilla is the latest in a string of balladeers and musicians to be killed in Mexico’s drug war.  This time the killing occurred in Texas.

The Invisible Armies Insurgency Tracker presents a database of insurgencies from 1775 to 2012. It supplements the comprehensive historical narrative in Invisible Armies: An Epic History of...

Video of a Grinnell College counterinsurgency and the future of Afghanistan debate on 22 April between COL Gian Gentile and Dr. John Nagl.

SWJ contributor John Bertetto provides tips for bringing down criminal organizations with organizational analysis.

An offering from Viridiana Rios and SWJ El Centro Fellow Stephen Dudley.

The idea of a mercenary may seem a bit quaint in the 21st century, but those forces make a difference and are often all that stands between a leader and his fate.

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Click through to a few SWJ articles on Chechnya and the separatist insurgency there.

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What the Army Needs Now, Most of All, is to Develop Leaders by Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, U.S. Army at Tom Ricks' Best Defense.

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