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SWJ Blog is a multi-author blog publishing news and commentary on the various goings on across the broad community of practice.  We gladly accept guest posts from serious voices in the community.

by U.S. News & World Report | Mon, 10/02/2017 - 11:29am | 0 comments

"U.S. forces in Africa this week staged what would have been an otherwise unremarkable attack against Islamic State extremists but for one key detail."

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 10/02/2017 - 6:26am | 1 comment

Continue on for the video, it speaks for itself...

by The National Interest | Mon, 10/02/2017 - 5:05am | 0 comments

“The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Russian military—not the Syrian army or the Syrian political class—are managing Syria’s destiny.”

by Rudaw | Mon, 10/02/2017 - 4:12am | 0 comments

"US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was very clear when he said last week that the US will not recognize, neither support the Kurdish independence referendum."

by The New York Times | Mon, 10/02/2017 - 3:25am | 0 comments

"Hundreds of suspected fighters for the extremist group, dirty and disheveled, arrive at checkpoints claiming innocence and begging for mercy."

by The Wall Street Journal | Sun, 10/01/2017 - 1:33pm | 0 comments

"State Department specialists sent dissent cable urging more-intensive talks to end Afghanistan war."

by W. R. Baker | Sun, 10/01/2017 - 8:03am | 136 comments

Increasingly, the written word is being tossed aside in favor of film and the “documentary” – both allow for “artistic license” instead of facts.

by The Boston Globe | Sun, 10/01/2017 - 7:16am | 0 comments

"Espionage is sometimes called the cloak-and-dagger business. That term no longer applies to the Central Intelligence Agency."

by Lawfire | Sat, 09/30/2017 - 9:40pm | 3 comments

In recent years there has been much discussion about the “weaponization” of social media.  My friend Dave Maxwell weighs in.

by Voice of America | Sat, 09/30/2017 - 8:35pm | 1 comment

As international pressure is mounting on Islamabad to do more against militant groups operating from its soil, some militant groups are rebranding themselves as political parties.

by DoD News | Sat, 09/30/2017 - 7:14pm | 0 comments

DoD is accelerating relief operations and response capacity to Puerto Rico to meet the FEMA's need for a comprehensive commodities distribution network.

by Defense One | Sat, 09/30/2017 - 10:10am | 6 comments

"And buying Facebook ads is much cheaper than an F-35 fighter jet, said Sen. Mark Warner."

by Voice of America | Sat, 09/30/2017 - 9:54am | 0 comments

As the Islamic State group faces military defeats in Syria and Iraq, the group has an eye on war-torn Libya, hoping to re-emerge there and organize in the country's desert.

by SWJ Editors | Fri, 09/29/2017 - 2:34pm | 0 comments

Continue on for the video. Well said LtGen Silveria!

by The Interpreter | Thu, 09/28/2017 - 1:54pm | 1 comment

"The accuracy of sources is always incredibly difficult to determine in a conflict zone."

by The Los Angeles Times | Thu, 09/28/2017 - 12:55pm | 2 comments

"Commanders warn that proliferation of the inexpensive technology may allow terrorist groups to launch other aerial attacks around the globe."

by Georgetown Security Studies Review | Thu, 09/28/2017 - 10:32am | 0 comments

"China will inevitably be affected by the humanitarian costs of a collapsed DPRK, the security of DPRK’s nuclear material, and any large US-ROK force mobilization."

by The Washington Times | Thu, 09/28/2017 - 10:16am | 0 comments

"Penetrating Latin America has been an Iranian and Hezbollah project for decades. They have been recruiting allies and agents."

by The Wall Street Journal | Thu, 09/28/2017 - 8:24am | 0 comments

"Kurdistan’s model should be Montenegro, which amicably separated from Serbia in 2006, rather than Kosovo."

by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Wed, 09/27/2017 - 7:36pm | 0 comments

The Taliban also are demanding better equipment and staff at existing clinics as well as the authority to vet surgeons and other medical staff who treat wounded Taliban fighters.

by The Hoover Institution | Wed, 09/27/2017 - 3:20pm | 2 comments

"We should be clear: Mindanao is not Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan.  We cannot approach a province of our longest standing treaty ally the same way we do in Syria."

by DoD News | Wed, 09/27/2017 - 9:49am | 0 comments

The erosion of American military capabilities is real and must be halted, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Senate Armed Services Committee here yesterday.

by The Wall Street Journal | Wed, 09/27/2017 - 8:40am | 0 comments

"Insurgents infiltrated the city by pretending to be tribal fighters, security officials say."

by Voice of America | Wed, 09/27/2017 - 7:56am | 0 comments

Myanmar branded the group, known in shorthand as ARSA, a terrorist organization after it carried out deadly attacks on police and army posts on August 25.

by Voice of America | Wed, 09/27/2017 - 7:29am | 0 comments

Mattis said the U.S., with its new strategy for breaking the deadlock with Taliban insurgents, is not going to give up the fight in Afghanistan.