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Continue on for a Voice of America summary and links concerning the ongoing French military operations in Mali.

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Giving Guerrillas the Boot - Time's Battleland Q&A / Book Review by Mark Thompson.

A disruptive thought about dialogue between professionals.

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Rare photos of receovered cartel car bomb are reminiscent of IEDs found in Iraq.

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Earlier this week, US Air Force Captain Jeff Gilmore castigated the US military's social media strategy in a  Small Wars Journal op-ed contrasting the practices of Coca-Cola and the...

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The challenges facing a military campaign to retake northern Mali.

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Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto plans to create a Gendarmería Nacional, initially of 10,000 officers, to police the contested plazas and regions impacted...

Panetta to Services: 'Prepare for the Worst' on Budget Cuts by Jennifer Hlad, Stars and Stripes.

Op-Ed: The Need For A "Half-Pivot to the Americas" by Dr. Robert J. Bunker and posted by the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute.

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Do away with heavy brigade combat teams and organize armor into a support brigade much like a combat aviation brigade.

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The cliff deal and plutocratic insurgency?

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Tim Kane looks at the military's exsanguination of talent.

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Chinese Organized Crime in Latin America by R. Evan Ellis, National Defense University, PRISM.

Book Review of The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama by Gian Gentile, New York Journal of Books.

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From all of us at SWJ, continue on for a music video...

Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Dies at 78 by Matt Schudel, Washington Post.

Merry Christmas (Flash Mob Oldie But Goodie)