A Unified General Framework of Insurgency Using a Living Systems Approach by Ensign Shanece Kendall, Naval Post Graduate School, June 2008. This thesis develops a unified general framework of...

Australian Army Journal Special Edition: Counterinsurgency This edition of the Australian Army Journal marks a departure from established practice in that it is a thematic edition dedicated...

Colonel Lewis Craparotta, Commander of Regimental Combat Team 1, speaks from from Camp Fallujah, providing an update on ongoing security operations in western Iraq on 30 June 2008. Colonel Robert...

Occupation Plan for Iraq Faulted in Army History - Michael Gordon, New York Times ... The story of the American occupation of Iraq has been the subject of numerous books, studies and memoirs. But...

General David H Petraeus: The General's Knowledge - Charles Sennott, The Sunday Times General David H Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Iraq, looked exhausted. A competitive miler who loves to...

Today's Financial Times contains a detailed and thought provoking article by Andrew Woods on efforts by Major General Douglas Stone and Task Force 134 in conducting "counterinsurgency inside the...

Charlie Rose Show - A discussion about North Korea's Declaration of Nuclear Materials with David Sanger, White House correspondent for The New York Times.

With a hat tip to Daniel Troy of the Consortium for Complex Operations - United Press International recently ran a three part series titled Emerging Threats: USAF Counterinsurgency authored by Shaun...

The latest issue of Joint Force Quarterly has been posted. JFQ is published for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the Institute for National Security Studies, National Defense University, to...

Notes Towards a Theory of Information Operations (IO) - Marc Tyrrell, In Harmonium Yesterday (June 26, 2008), Andrew Exum posted a blog entry over at Small Wars Journal on Information Operations. As...

Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan - June 2008 Report to Congress in accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1230, Public Law 110-181). This...

The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare: Aligning and Integrating Military and Civilian Roles in Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction Operations edited by Jay W. Boggs and...

Wars of Ideas and the War of Ideas by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II, US Army War College - Strategic Studies Institute. The author discusses several types of wars of ideas in an effort to achieve a...

Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare (Public Event). Washington, DC. The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) is sponsoring a discussion on counterinsurgency on 22 July 2008, at the National Press Club (...

Charlie Rose Show - A discussion about the Zimbabwe election with author Chenjerai Hove, author and journalist Andrew Meldrum, journalist Philip Gourevitch and Michelle Gavin of the Council on...

Colonel Charles Flynn, Commander of the 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, speaks via satellite with reporters at the Pentagon, providing an operational update on 26 June 2008.

Sebastian Sprenger at Inside the Pentagon (subscription required) is reporting that the draft Irregular Warfare (IW) Directive has sparked "intense controversy" within the Department of Defense....

Information Operations By Andrew Exum I have a few questions for the learned readership of Small Wars Journal. The first is, how many of you have ever looked up the official Department of Defense...

From the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy: No One in PD Conducts PD Overseas By Matt Armstrong - Cross-posted at MountainRunner Strong words from the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public...

Lieutenant Colonel Gian Gentile has a new piece in World Affairs titled A (Slightly) Better War: A Narrative and Its Defects. Here is the intro: U.S. Army's new strategy in Iraq—launched in...

Yesterday's bombing in Baghdad, an apparent attempt on the life of Sadr City Council Deputy Hassan Hussein Shammah, killed two US Soldiers (not yet identified by the Department of Defense); Steven...

The Royal United Services Institute and the author have kindly granted SWJ permission to post John Nagl's review of The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War by Brian McAllister Linn that appeared in...

Video Brief Major General Jeffrey Schlosser, Commander of Combined Joint Task Force-101, and Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division, 24 June 2008. Bloggers Roundtable U.S. Army Colonel Thomas...

Lieutenant General Lloyd Austin, Commander of Multi-National Corps-Iraq, providing an update on ongoing security operations in Iraq, 23 June 2008. Major General Qassim Atta, Spokesman for...

Multi-National Force-Iraq Commander's Counterinsurgency Guidance - Secure and serve the population. The Iraqi people are the decisive "terrain." Together with our Iraqi partners, work to provide the...

Larry Smith. Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2008. SWJ Book Review by Bill Van Horn With more and more of the World War...

Irregular Warfare Presents Challenge For U.S. Military, General Says By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 19, 2008 -- The U.S. military will be engaged in...

Captain Tim Hsia has a new article in the American Foreign Services Association's Foreign Service Journal titled Building on the Goldwater Nichols Act. Here are the take-aways: 1) The Department of...

Constitutional Cartography & the Parsing of Terrorist Space By Mike Innes - Cross-Posted at CTLab I've been reporting on the Opinio Juris Insta-Symposium (OPJIS) on the Boumediene Case in dribs...

Ungoverned Areas and Safe Havens By Robert Lamb I was the lead author of the DoD report Ungoverned Areas and Threats From Safe Havens that William McCallister cites in his SWJ Blog piece, "...