In the Winter 2007 issue of the hobby wargaming journal Fire & Movement, the editor, Jon Compton, relates his experiences in playing counterinsurgency games at the Military Operations Research...

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates 14 April 2008 speech to the Association of American Universities. Topics included the state of relations between academia and the military, Human Terrain Team...

Today's New York Times features two items concerning the Department of Defense and strategic communications / outreach. David Barstow's Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand makes the claim...

Today's Miami Herald carries a story on page 3 titled Pentagon Study: War is `Debacle' by Jonathan Landay and John Walcott. The war in Iraq has become ''a major debacle'' and the outcome ''is in...

The Spring 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...

In resposnse to a recent Newsweek article - A Gun in One Hand, A Pen in the Other by Dan Ephron and Silvia Spring - Dr. Montgomery McFate; the Senior Social Science Adviser to the U.S. Army's Human...

Marine Corps Colonel Patrick Malay, commander of Regimental Combat Team 5 of Multi-National Force - West, briefed Pentagon reporters and the bloggers roundtable this week on success against...

Remarks At Air University, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base Secretary Condoleezza Rice Montgomery, Alabama April 14, 2008 Secretary Rice receives the first honorary degree at Air University, Maxwell-...

Frontier Six, LTG William B. Caldwell, IV, Sends Remembering our Heroes Corporal Jason Dunham, United States Marine Corps Four years ago Corporal Jason Dunham did the unimaginable when an insurgent...

From US Joint Forces Command - USJFCOM Signs Letter of Intent to Support Interagency Online Training by MC2 (AW) Nikki Carter of JFCOM's Public Affairs Office. The State Department's Foreign Services...

Newsweek has posted a Human Terrain System profile piece by Dan Efron and Silvia Spring - A Gun in One Hand, A Pen in the Other. Marcus Griffin had never been to the Middle East before he arrived in...

Background material, transcripts, videos, briefing slides, news reports, opinion-editorials, and blog reporting on the testimonies of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker to Congress (...

Associated Press news item - Iran Dismisses Sabotage in Mosque Blast by Nasser Karimi. Iranian officials on Sunday ruled out an attack as the cause of an explosion that killed 11 people inside a...

Several items from the latest edition of Armed Forces Journal: New Answers to Hard Questions: Properly structured adviser teams are key to winning the Long War by 1st Lieutenant Brian Drohan and...

Phil Carter of Intel Dump has two posts up concerning combat tour length - Combat Tours Still Too Long and More on Combat Tours. Most soldiers I know greeted yesterday's news about the reduction in...

War at the Pentagon - Jim Hoagland, Washington Post The most intense arguments over U.S. involvement in Iraq do not flare at this point on Capitol Hill or on the campaign trail. Those rhetorical...

Doug Feith on Diane Rehm - Abu Muqawama There is simply not enough booze in Abu Muqawama's apartment to get him through this interview on the Diane Rehm Show with Doug Feith. I'd throw up my two-...

Just got back from spending five days watching Dr. David Kilcullen in action at Joint Urban Warrior (JUW) 08, a US Marine Corps and US Joint Forces Command cosponsored program. Dave's SWJ blog...

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, 11 April 2008.

The Limits of the Surge: An Interview with Gian Gentile - Judah Grunstein, World Politics Review. Gian P. Gentile is an active duty Army lieutenant colonel who has served two tours in Iraq, most...

From the US Marine Corps Concept for Interagency Campaign Design, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, 7 May 2007. Only a campaign based on a comprehensive approach in which all Interagency...

9/11 Conspiracy Theories 'Ridiculous,' Al Qaeda Says

Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare - Book Review by Robert Kaplan, Wall Street Journal. Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Edited by Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian (Osprey, 304 pages, $27.95...

... to our "rogue cousins" Abu Muqawama, Charlie and Kip; and of course, Tom Ricks. Still, around here it will always be I and my brother against my cousin;-)

Matt Armstrong, MountainRunner, has posted a great piece on the relationship between the US military Public Affairs and Information Operations communities.. In "Planning to Influence: A Commander's...

Irregular Warfare, Both Future and Present by Walter Pincus, Washington Post. It is the newest Pentagon doctrine, one that has been under discussion for several years and has been the focus of...

Holy COIN Batman, Intel Dump has a new look and a new home. Great blog and a great addition to the Washington Post. Congrats Phil!

In this morning's Wall Street Journal - Officer Questions Petraeus's Strategy by Yochi Dreazen. ... Lt. Col. Gian Gentile, a history professor here who served two tours in Iraq, begs to differ. He...

The US Institute of Peace has just released its report - Iraq After the Surge: Options and Questions by Daniel Serwer and Sam Parker. This is the report cited in today's Washington Post - Iraq...