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Increases in airstrikes, injuries, and a wider range of authorities are revealing a much more involved U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, despite a planned reduction.

"How is a military built around 12-month rotations able to retain knowledge about the local area and build relationships overseas?"

In May 2016, CSBA, teamed with Poland’s National Centre for Strategic Studies, led a tabletop exercise to address issue important to both countries and NATO.

A day after Turkey dismissed more than 2,400 military personnel, its Supreme Military Council gathered to try to put the pieces back together.

"Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, the official spokesman for the IS, has come pretty close to acknowledging that the territory controlled by the group is slipping away."

Continue on for a link and props for the new Brookings’s Focus Book - 'Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy'.

Continue on for the issue overview and links to each article - from the Combating Terrorism Center.

“Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said she had not been briefed on any potential options or an acquisition strategy related to a new CAS aircraft, dubbed A-X.”

Continue on for The White House press release (quite comprehensive) on PPD-41.

“A return to guerrilla warfare in Iraq, while the U.S. and its allies still combat the Islamic State in Syria, would pose one of the first major challenges to the next American president.”

On 22 July the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction published an audit of DoD, State and USAID's over $2.6 billion investment in Afghanistan's ICT sector.

Dr. Paul Rexton Kan, a SWJ--El Centro fellow and professor of National Security Studies, US Army War College, has recently published the new book Drug Trafficking and International Security.

“Dramatic portrayals of Mexican crime kings, which began as zany B-grade movies, have evolved into wildly popular soap operas, best-selling novels and major Hollywood productions.”

I was born in a bar and filled many a tavern and tomb. But my Service shines since emerging from that womb.

"CAS can sometimes be provided from heavy bombers using satellite-guided bombs, but the most effective approach often is to come after the enemy low and slow."

The new Joint Operating Environment is out and posted online. Continue on for links to the current and previous JOEs. Hat tip to Dave Maxwell.

“For many of the 6,800 FARC combatants scattered across Colombia’s hinterland, a new and, in some ways, more daunting phase lies just ahead - peace.”

“The 1973 Yom Kippur War lasted only a few weeks, but its implications for air combat continue to reverberate - even helping make the case for ditching the iconic A-10 Warthog.”

There is a reason to stay away from a Pentagon assignment – you may fail.  The measure of success for a Pentagon assignment is not the same as a “muddy boots” assignment.

Kerry: “The tide has turned” in battle against IS in Iraq and Syria and that the U.S.-led coalition wants to do more against the terror group “and wants to do it faster.”

No one predicted that over half of all Army Field Artillerymen who were considered for selection to LTC in the primary zone would be passed over.  

Continue on for information concerning FPI’s 2016-2017 Future Leaders Program.

"The US and its allies in the coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) have agreed on a strategy to defeat the group, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has said."

"How will the coalition help the Iraqi government put the city of Mosul back together after it is taken back from the militants?"

America’s urban police departments are in an information war, and they are losing.