- Afghan National Security Forces Literacy Program by SWJ Editors
Afghan National Security Forces Literacy Programby Michael J. FaughnanDownload The Full Article: Afghan National Security Forces Literacy ProgramAs the December review of our strategy in Afghanistan nears, one program that...
- Afghanistan: Reconciliation Plans, Tribal Leaders, and Civil Society by SWJ Editors
Afghanistan: Reconciliation plans, tribal leaders and civil societyby Thomas KirkDownload The Full Article: Afghanistan: Reconciliation plans, tribal leaders and civil societyA reading of the Afghanistan's troubled history against recent explorations...
- Presenting SWJ Vol 6, No. 12 by SWJ Editors
Small Wars JournalVol 6, No. 12 is now available. Click here for the full issue, or directly on the titles below for single articles.
- Not Just a Job, an Adventure: Drafting the U.S. Civil Service for Counterinsurgencies by SWJ Editors
Not Just a Job, an Adventure: Drafting the U.S. Civil Service for Counterinsurgenciesby Michael A. ClauserDownload The Full Article: Not Just a Job, an Adventure: Drafting the U.S. Civil Service...
- Counterinsurgency: Domestic Politics by Other Means by SWJ Editors
Counterinsurgency: Domestic Politics by Other Meansby Anton KurucDownload The Full Article: Counterinsurgency: Domestic Politics by Other MeansClausewitz describes war in a foreign policy context that needs to be adapted to...
- Widening and Flattening: The Case for Decentralized Thinking by SWJ Editors
Widening and Flattening: The Case for Decentralized Thinkingby Benjamin SummersDownload The Full Article: Widening and Flattening: The Case for Decentralized ThinkingThe "fog of war" has thickened over the past decade....
- Cyberwar Case Study: Georgia 2008 by David M. Hollis
Cyberwar Case Study: Georgia 2008
by David Hollis
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The Russian-Georgian War in August of 2008 represented a long history of geostrategic conflict between the...
- The Merida Initiative: A Flawed Counterdrug Policy? by SWJ Editors
The Merida Initiative: A Flawed Counterdrug Policy?
by Philip K. Abbott
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Economic integration and dependency under the North American Free Trade Agreement...
- SOF Detachment Civil Military Operations in Iraq by SWJ Editors
SOF Detachment Civil Military Operations in Iraqby Shaun A. ReynoldsDownload The Full Article: SOF Detachment Civil Military Operations in Iraq"All the air conditioners are gone," said the interpreter. The...
- The Need to Create an Unconventional Warfare Advanced Studies and Training Center by SWJ Editors
The Need to Create an Unconventional Warfare Advanced Studies and Training Center by John CochranDownload The Full Article: The Need to Create an Unconventional Warfare Advanced Studies and Training Center...
- Root Causes of Islamist Extremism: Nine Years Later by SWJ Editors
Root Causes of Islamist Extremism: Nine Years Laterby John D. JohnsonDownload The Full Article: Root Causes of Islamist Extremism: Nine Years LaterThe 9/11 attacks showed to the world that Islamist...
- Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico: Web and Social Media Resources by SWJ Editors
Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico:
Web and Social Media Resources
by Dr. Robert J. Bunker and Lt. John P. Sullivan
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The authors...
- El significado espiritual de ¿Plata O Plomo? by SWJ Editors
El significado espiritual de ¿Plata O Plomo?
por Pamela L. Bunker y Robert J. Bunker
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La sabiduría convencional sostiene que la violencia...
- Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (I) by SWJ Editors
Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (I):Non-State Systems, Decentralization and Refounding African Statehoodby Mark Massey Jr.Download The Full Article: Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (I)State building is asserted as the remedy...
- COIN Manpower Ratios: Debunking the 10 to 1 Ratio and Surges by SWJ Editors
COIN Manpower Ratios: Debunking the 10 to 1 Ratio and Surges by Joshua ThielDownload The Full Article: COIN Manpower Ratios: Debunking the 10 to 1 Ratio and Surges"Conventional wisdom...
- US Cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Challenges and Opportunities by SWJ Editors
US Cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Challenges and Opportunitiesby Jeffrey Reeves Download The Full Article: US Cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Challenges and OpportunitiesThe Shanghai Cooperation Organization...
- The New Physics: Key to Strengthening COIN by Lawrence Chickering
The New Physics: Key to Strengthening COIN
by A. Lawrence Chickering
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In a series of short reflections, Tom Ricks neatly summarizes major...
- Victory Has a Thousand Fathers by SWJ Editors
Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Evidence of Effective Approaches to Counterinsurgency, 1978-2008by Christopher Paul, Colin P. Clarke, and Beth GrillDownload The Full Article: Victory Has a Thousand FathersContemporary discourse on...
- Philippine Counterinsurgency Strategy: Then and Now by SWJ Editors
Philippine Counterinsurgency Strategy: Then and Nowby Mike FowlerDownload The Full Article: Philippine Counterinsurgency Strategy: Then and NowShortly after the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, an insurgency campaign began...
- Discussions on the Complexity of Diverse Sunni Islamic Interpretations by Youssef Aboul-Enein
Discussions on the Complexity of Diverse Sunni Islamic Interpretations: History and Islamic Argumentation al-Qaida Chooses to Neglectby CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein, MSC, USNDownload the Full Article: Discussions on the Complexity of Diverse...
- Counterinsurgency: Falling Short of the Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan by SWJ Editors
Counterinsurgency: Falling Short of the Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistanby Matthew InceDownload The Full Article: Counterinsurgency: Falling Short of the Comprehensive Approach in AfghanistanAs we enter into a new year of...
- The Hizballah-North Korean Nexus by SWJ Editors
The Hizballah-North Korean Nexusby Carl Anthony WegeDownload The Full Article: The Hizballah-North Korean NexusA significant relationship between Hizballah and North Korea, facilitated by Iran, has developed over the last two...
- Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (II) by SWJ Editors
Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (II):The Unbearable Lightness of Governing: Over-Centralized and Decentralized Governanceby Mark Massey, Jr.Download The Full Article: Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (II)The first article in this...
- Strategy for Military Counter Drug Operations by SWJ Editors
Strategy for Military Counter Drug Operations
by Robert Culp
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The Mexican Army's counter-drug (CD) operations are making a limited impact on narco-trafficking in...
- Counterinsurgency as a Whole of Government Approach by Octavian Manea
Counterinsurgency as a Whole of Government Approach: Notes on the British Army Field Manual WeltanschauungAn Interview with Colonel Alexander Aldersonby Octavian ManeaDownload The Full Article: Counterinsurgency as a Whole of...
- The Implications of the 2008-2009 Gaza War in Times of Extended Conflict by SWJ Editors
Glory Restored?The Implications of the 2008-2009 Gaza War in Times of Extended ConflictBy Dr. Russell W. Glenn, A-T (Anti-Terrorism) Solutions.This study, sponsored by the U.S. Joint Forces Command Joint Irregular...
- Why We Should Support Democratic Revolution in the Islamic World by Robert Bunker
Why We Should Support Democratic Revolution in the Islamic Worldby Dr. Robert J. BunkerDownload The Full Article: Why We Should Support Democratic Revolution in the Islamic WorldRecent events in...
- Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (III) by SWJ Editors
Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (III)Below and Beyond the State: Incorporating Non-State Systems to Build Stronger Statesby Mark MasseyDownload the Full Article: Reconceptualizing State Building in Africa (III)This series urges...
- The Closers (Part 1): How Insurgencies End by Gary Anderson
The Closers (Part 1): How Insurgencies Endby Colonel Gary AndersonDownload The Full Article: The Closers (Part 1): How Insurgencies EndIn my last experience in Iraq, I was one of the...
- Small Wars Journal - Jan 2011 (Vol 7, No. 1) by SWJ Editors
Small Wars Journal's January 2011 issue (Vol. 7 No. 1) is now available. Click here for the full issue, or directly on the titles below for single articles.
- Unnecessary Evil by SWJ Editors
Unnecessary Evil:The Necessary Exclusion of Gulbuddin Hekmatyarby Adam E. MacAllisterDownload The Full Article: Unnecssary EvilThe policy of reconciliation and reintegration in Afghanistan is not a new concept, but in 2010...
- Karzai's Governing Strategy by SWJ Editors
Karzai's Governing Strategy: A Threat to ISAF COIN Implementationby James Sisco Download The Full Article: Karzai's Governing StrategyKarzai's initial governing strategy, focused at centralizing power within the Government of the...
- Motivational Interviewing by SWJ Editors
Motivational Interviewing:Improving Combat Advising to Strengthen Partnering with Afghan National Security Forcesby James Cowan, Nengyalai Amalyar and Mohammad Mustafa Download The Full Article: Motivational InterviewingStanding up a professional Afghan National...
