USAID Civilian-Military Cooperation Policy - USAID, July 2008. Purpose: This policy establishes the foundation for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) cooperation with the...

After Action Report (AAR) by General Barry R McCaffrey USA (Ret) on his visit to NATO SHAPE Headquarters and Afghanistan -- 21-26 July 2008. This memo provides a strategic and operational assessment...

Department of Defense Releases the National Defense Strategy The DoD released the 2008 National Defense Strategy today. The strategy outlines the national approach to the defense of this nation and...

A review of: A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It By Stephen Kinzer, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. Inc, 2008. Reviewed by: Thomas (Tom) P. Odom LTC US Army (...

Charlie Rose Show - A conversation with Admiral William J. Fallon.

How to Contain Radical Islam The best global strategy for the US may be the one that won the Cold War. By Commander Philip Kapusta and Captain Donovan Campbell This article originally appeared in...

How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida by Seth G. Jones and Martin C. Libicki of Rand. All terrorist groups eventually end. But how do they end? The evidence since 1968 indicates...

A couple of pictures from our SWC Northern Virginia "Non-Virtual" get together tonight at the Globe and Laurel restaurant near Marine Corps Base Quantico. While solutions to world problems were not...

Spencer Ackerman, in yesterday's Washington Independent, claims I told him the Iraq war was "f*cking stupid". He did not seek to clear that quote with me, and I would not have approved it if he had....

I had the opportunity (and good fortune) to attend the Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare panel discussion Tuesday, 22 July, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The Center for Naval...

In today's Washington Independent Spencer Ackerman provides an update on the US Department of State's Counterinsurgency: A Guide for Policy-Makers (October 2007 version). ... "Counterinsurgency: A...

24th MEU - Part 1 - What is a MEU? Hat tip to Samantha West at Samantha Speaks Continue on for Part 2 - Task in Helmand and Part 3 - Working Conditions...

Head on over to Abu Muqawama for boots-on-the-ground LL. Kip has just posted Notes from Anbar - A USMC LT on his way out of Anbar speaks to some of the amazing changes that have taken place there...

Volatile India-Pakistan Standoff Enters 11,680th Day

Charlie Rose Show - A conversation with author and former CIA analyst Ken Pollack about his book A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East.

The New York Times ran an article today; 4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images; concerning independent photojournalist Zoriah Miller. For those who have not been following this story...

Colonel Tom James, Commander, 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, providing an operational update on ongoing security operations in Iraq on 24 July 2008.

Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bruce W. Jentleson, Ivo H. Daalder, Antony J. Blinken, Lael Brainard, Kurt M. Campbell, Michael...

The Council on Foreign Relations has posted an interview with Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities) Michael Vickers concerning...

Brigadier General David Perkins, spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq, speaking with reporters about reconstruction projects in Baghdad on 23 July 2008.

... combines the culinary mastery of "Iron Chef" with the biting and acerbic wit of Jon Stewart's "Daily Show". Mess hall chow or MRE's got you down? Yes? Then you might want to go native - Chris...

Charlie Rose Show - An Hour with Virginia Senator Jim Webb.

The Summer 2008 issue of the US Army War College's Parameters is posted. Parameters, a refereed journal of ideas and issues, provides a forum for the expression of mature thought on the art and...

Brigadier General Jeffrey Dorko, Commanding General of the US Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division (GRD), and Azza Hashim Khalil Humadi, Program Director for Women's Initiatives, GRD, speak...

A Battle Over 'the Next War' - By Julian Barnes and Peter Spiegel, Los Angeles Times Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap Jr. is not a fighter pilot, wing commander or war planner. But he is waging...

... I am hooked on Information Dissemination - enough said.

Afghanistan: The Forgotten War - PBS NOW - Embedded with the Marines in Afghanistan: Can we defeat a resurgent Taliban? America thought it had won the war in Afghanistan six years ago, but a recent...

Via e-mail - 2HBCT, 1ID of Fort Riley returned from the National Training Center a month ago and the local news anchor from KTKA-49 Topeka was embedded with 1-18 Infantry Battalion and other brigade...

Is Counterinsurgency the Graduate Level of War? Some Random Thoughts on COIN Today I have to respectfully disagree with the assertion that "counterinsurgency is the graduate level of war." Despite...

The New Role of Air Strike in Small Wars A response to Jon Compton By Richard Andres In a recent Small Wars Journal article entitled "The Demise of Secretary Wynne," Jon Compton offered some...