Non-Linear Intuition A Fundamental Requirement for Military Leaders and why they should read Clausewitz by MAJ Rob Thornton September 11th, 2001 was a watershed event in that it was a vividly graphic...

Weapon of Choice - Rick Atkinson, Washington Post, and General Montgomery Meigs, Joint IED Defeat Organzation Additional Video Interviews Concerning IEDs - Washington Post More...

The Wall More...

Herschel Smith, Captain's Journal, weighs in with two posts concerning LTC Gian Gentile's Armed Forces Journal article Eating Soup With a Spoon and 'hard vs. soft' COIN: Small Wars are Still Wars...

September 2007 Foreign Policy Research Institute E-note - Iraq and the "Metrics" System by Michael Noonan. Hat tip to Frank Hoffman for sending this along. Michael P. Noonan is a veteran of...

The U.S. Department of State has launched its first blog -- Dipnote. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Sean McCormack: Welcome to the State Department's first-ever blog, Dipnote. As a...

MountainRunner discusses the implications of rescinding Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Order 17 and identifies the critical issues associated with integrating Private Military Companies (PMCs...

Volume 9 was published on 25 Sept 07. Volumes 1-8 are available in the back issues area.

The full video of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's Columbia Speech can be found here at CBS's Raw Video. What follows is a Voice of America report on the same by Gary Thomas. Iran's president got a...

The Bugler and Taps - A History Hat Tip and Job Well Done to TapsBugler - Master Sergeant Jari Villanueva (USAF) Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render...

Restructuring America's Ground Forces: Better, Not Bigger - September 2007 paper by Frank Hoffman and Steven Metz for The Stanley Foundation. The core defense debate of our time is how to make the...

Inside the Pentagon's Fawzia Sheikh reports (subscription required) that Ft. Leavenworth's new commanding general, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, wants to revamp how Army officers are educated. Caldwell...

MG Joseph Fil, Commanding General of Multi-National Division-Baghdad and First Cavalry Division, speaks with Pentagon reporters, providing an update on ongoing security operations in Iraq.

Authors Note: This article was written in late August 2007, well before the present controversy over the Mansour neighborhood shootings by Blackwater Security. It is not a response or intended to...

In a 17 September The Atlantic Dispatch article (Will the Petraeus Strategy Be the Last?) I offer a view from Iraq's restive Anbar province on Congress's recent Iraq hearings...

Audio interview at National Public Radio with Colonel Sean MacFarland (USA). COL MacFarland played a key role in the effort to stabilize Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province. He returned from...

It has come to my attention that a Joint Staff memorandum by Information Operations analyst Stephen Coughlin describing the nefarious aspirations of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Salafi-Wahhabi-al...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Peter Pace gives his farewell to the troops at the Pentagon Courtyard, September 20, 2007

Soldiers of the 3rd Platoon, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, come to the aid of an Iraqi family in Adhamiyah, September 15, 2007 Provincial Reconstruction Team members on a mission to improve...

Several items from the latest edition of Armed Forces Journal: Eating Soup with a Spoon - Lieutenant Colonel Gian Gentile The Army's new manual on counterinsurgency operations (COIN), in many...

Charlie Rose Show - 14 September 2007

Iraq Trip Report By Linda Robinson During a three-week trip to Iraq in late August and early September, I found the security situation improved compared to the spring and even more markedly over...

Yellow Ribbons on Cars Don't Measure Real Support -- Douglas MacKinnon, Houston Chronicle Hat Tips to Dave Maxwell and Mac McAllister for pointing to this op-ed. Who in the United States really...

Australian PRTs in Afghanistan David Axe - Aviation Week Hat Tip - Civil-Military Relations and War is Boring Blogs

Michelle Malkin has the details and most likely will be posting additonal links to this event. Nothing follows.

The U.S. Army Combined Arms Center has posted the September - October 2007 issue of Military Review. Always a 'must read', links to individual articles follow, enjoy. Featured Articles Learning...

By J. Eli Margolis Earlier this week, America's top two officials in Iraq testified before Congress about the war in Iraq. Ambassador Crocker described slow but sure progress; General Petraeus spoke...

'Iraq First' -- Iraqi National Security Strategy 2007 -- 2010, in English, dated July 2007.

Update 12 September 2007: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced yesterday that the President has nominated U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis for appointment to the rank of general...

Army PRT Playbook, USMC lessons learned, Army-Marine Corps division of labor, lessons from Iraq on negotiating, Mac McAllister, John Nagl, Hugo Chavez, unrestricted warfare, and the People's...