The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Lt. Col. John Nagl www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party LTC John Nagl - The Daily Show...

Prospects for Iraq's Stability: Some Security Progress but Political Reconciliation Elusive Update to NIE, Prospects for Iraq's Stability: A Challenging Road Ahead August 2007 Continue on for the NIE...

... so you can read this: Challenging the Generals by Fred Kaplan On Aug. 1, Gen. Richard Cody, the United States Army's vice chief of staff, flew to the sprawling base at Fort Knox, Ky., to talk...

Lots of odds and ends (and links) to include RCT 6 in Iraq, President Bush and Ambassador Crocker on Prime Minister Maliki, free online FSI language courses, SOF seminar at NDU and much more... Key...

Director's Statement on the Release of the 9/11 IG Report Executive Summary Earlier this month, Congress passed a bill implementing some of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. The legislation...

Today's edition of The Australian offers up a profile on counterinsurgency expert, and Small Wars Journal contributor, Dr. David Kilcullen -- Strategist Behind War Gains by Rebecca Weisser. ......

As a lead-in -- to this much longer than usual SWJ Blog entry -- I thought I'd post some recent news as well as recent and not-so-recent background / reference material on the establishment of our...

Recently released report from the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division - Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat by Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt. Preface If the post-...

Khalid, Khalil, and Khattab al-Turki, senior terrorists operating in Iraq with close ties to top al-Qaeda leadership, were killed after taking hostile action against Coalition forces on 23 June 2007

By Charles J. Dunlap One of the most controversial issues today is the role of kinetic military force, and especially airpower, in counterinsurgency (COIN) operations. While no one advocates the use...

Colonel Gary Anderson (USMC Ret.) - Charlie Rose Show - 6 August 2007 Colonel Anderson discusses recent Iraq related war games and how the situation on the ground may play out if the US withdraws...

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The US Air Force recently (1 August) signed off on its latest doctrinal publication - AFDD 2-3 Irregular Warfare. Foreword Our nation is at war. Warriors must plan and orchestrate irregular warfare...

Excerpts from recent posts by Max Boot (War Made New and The Savage Wars of Peace) at Commentary Magazine's blog Contentions...

Links to two recent DoD / MNF-I Blogger's Roundtables that the SWJ was unable to participate in: 8 August - U.S. Soldiers Partner With Iraqi Troops in Mahmudiyah with U. S. Army Lt. Col. Robert...

By William S. McCallister Concerning my SWJ Blog post - The MEF Engagement Model and Al Qaeda -- Brian H. comments: I think the analysis is somewhat overblown and abstract. There are other forces at...

In his June 2007 State Department E-Journal article, New Paradigms For 21st Century Conflicts, Dr. Dave Kilcullen of General David Petraeus' senior staff in Baghdad called for, among other things, a...

I'm writing to make everyone aware of an outstanding article on airpower's many crucial enabling contributions to Irregular Warfare. I think this will interest everyone given our previous exchanges...

Richard Fernandez of The Belmont Club has a 'must read' post up concerning the recently released (30 July) Brookings Institution Iraq Index. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index for July 30, 2007...

RADM Mark Fox, MNF-Iraq, BG Gen Robert Allardice, Commander, Coalition Air Force Transition Team, and Iraqi Air Force Commander LTG Kamal Barzanjy speak with reporters 5 August 2007. Nothing follows...

The purpose of this posting is to alert the Small Wars Journal community about an excellent new book by Dr. Jeff Record of the Air War College faculty. Professor Record is no dilettante in this...

ISI HQ Takedown, Muqdadiyah, Iraq Nothing follows...

The Small Wars Journal / Small Wars Council participated in a Blogger's Roundtable on Friday with Philip Reeker, US Embassy, Baghdad. The subject was Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Iraq....

AFPS - Jim Garamone: Speaking to Pentagon reporters via teleconference from Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, Army Col. John Charlton, commander of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry...

Captain Jeremy Gwinn, US Army In today's military, the requirement to conduct tasks far outside traditional specialties is an accepted reality. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have taught leaders...

Paul Brinkley, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, and Philip Reeker, US Embassy, Baghdad, join BG Kevin Bergner, Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman, in an expansion of the normal weekly Iraq update...

Statement of the Honorable Francis J. West, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, before the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives Subject: Withdrawal from Iraq July 25, 2007 Mr...

On 24 July the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) rolled out their guidelines for relations between U.S. Armed Forces and Non-Governmental Humanitarian Organizations (NGHO). From the USIP...

Damien McElroy, foreign affairs correspondent for the U.K.'s Telegraph, "headlines" today: Iraqi leader tells Bush: Get Gen Petraeus out... One problem - the events as reported in the Telegraph never...