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New material, post volume 9 (Sep, 2007) is provided below as individual articles in an interim, BETA format. Future magazine volumes will be assembled and published here, too. Our back issues, volumes 1 through 9, are available here.
Thinking Small: Applying Hobbes to Counterinsurgency
by LTC Raymond Millen
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An Intellectual Genealogy of the Just War
A Survey of Christian Political Thought on the Justification of Warfare
by Keith Gomes
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Taking Interagency Stability Operations to a New Level
The Integration of Special Operation Forces and USAID in Afghanistan
by Sloan Mann
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Contested Nation Building
The Challenge of Countering Insurgency in Afghanistan in 2007
by Colonel John Frewen
Rethinking Smith-Mundt
by Matt Armstrong
Posturing for the Durand Line - ‘We Can and Must do Better’?
by Paul Smyth
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Counterinsurgency Principles for the Diplomat
by Kurt Amend
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Shortchanging the Joint Doctrine Fight
One Airman’s Assessment of the Airman’s Assessment
by LtCol Buck Elton
Visualizing Transition from the “Bottom Up”
Observations from Joint Urban Warrior 2008
by Dennis Burket
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Rethinking “IO:” Complex Operations in the Information Age
by BG Huba Wass de Czege, US Army, Retired
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Improving Information Operations in Iraq and the Global War on Terror
by Farook Ahmed and Oubai Shahbandar
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Terrorists and Terrorism
The Cost of a Redundant State Media Strategy
by Adam Hammond
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Foreign Fighters: How Are They Being Recruited?
Two Imperfect Recruitment Models
by Clinton Watts
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Restraint as a Successful Strategy in the 1999 Kargil Conflict
by Colonel Devendra Pratap Pandey, Indian Army
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A Tale of Two Countries
Counterinsurgency and Capacity Building in the Pacific
by Dr. Russell W. Glenn
The Erosion of Noncombatant Immunity within Al Qaeda
by Carl J. Ciovacco
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FM 3-0: Operations on the Cusp of Postpositivism
by Christopher R. Paparone
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Training Afghan and Iraqi Military Chaplaincies
A Battle-proven Model from an Experiment in Afghan Indigenous Chaplain Training
by Chaplain (CPT) Eric A. Eliason
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Persistence as the 10th Principle of War
by LTC Gregory A. Grimes
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Third World Experience in Counterinsurgency
Cuba’s Operation Carlotta, 1975
by Russ Stayanoff
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Force Structure for Small Wars
by Andrew C. Pavord
Guerrilla Warfare and the Indonesian Strategic Psyche
by Emmet McElhatton
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Maras in Central America
National Security Implications of Gang Activity South of the Border
by COL Terry Saltsman and LTC Ben Welch III
Social Epidemics and the Human Element of Counterinsurgency
by CPT Nils French
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Why Strategy is Simple
by MAJ Aaron Bazin
Iraqi Non-Lethal Contributions to the Counterinsurgency
by CPT Justin Gorkowski
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The Counterinsurgency Cliff Notes
Techniques for the Conventional Rifle Platoon, in Layman’s Terms
by CPT Craig Coppock
‘What’s Happening In Basra?’
by Paul Smyth
The Birth of the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell
by Stephen Phillips
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The Battle for Saydia:
An Ongoing Case Study in Militia Based Insurgency
by CPT Michael Comstock
The Break Point: AQIZ Establishes the ISI in Zaganiyah
by CPT James Few
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Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan
What Foreign Fighter Data Reveals About the Future of Terrorism
by Clinton Watts
Observations from a Year in the Sunni Triangle
by LTC Craig Collier
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Understanding Arab Culture
by Lazar Berman
Winning the Ideological Battle for the Support of the Populace
(Understanding the Role of Ideology in Insurgency)
by COL Robert Jones
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Considerations for Organizing and Preparing for Security Force Assistance Operations
by COL David Maxwell
The Global Counter Insurgency
America’s New National Security and Foreign Policy Paradigm
by Jonathan Morgenstein & Eric Vickland
Oil Security and the Necessity for Global Cooperation
by Dr. David A. Anderson
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