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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.

New SWJ Magazine Articles

August 4, 2008

Thinking Small: Applying Hobbes to Counterinsurgency

Thinking Small: Applying Hobbes to Counterinsurgency
by LTC Raymond Millen

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August 3, 2008

An Intellectual Genealogy of the Just War

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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August 2, 2008

Taking Interagency Stability Operations to a New Level

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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July 31, 2008

Contested Nation Building

Contested Nation Building
The Challenge of Countering Insurgency in Afghanistan in 2007
by Colonel John Frewen

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July 28, 2008

Rethinking Smith-Mundt

Rethinking Smith-Mundt
by Matt Armstrong

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July 25, 2008

Posturing for the Durand Line - ‘We Can and Must do Better’?

Posturing for the Durand Line - ‘We Can and Must do Better’?
by Paul Smyth

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July 19, 2008

Counterinsurgency Principles for the Diplomat

Counterinsurgency Principles for the Diplomat
by Kurt Amend

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July 12, 2008

Shortchanging the Joint Doctrine Fight

Shortchanging the Joint Doctrine Fight
One Airman’s Assessment of the Airman’s Assessment
by LtCol Buck Elton

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July 8, 2008

Visualizing Transition from the “Bottom Up”

Visualizing Transition from the “Bottom Up”
Observations from Joint Urban Warrior 2008
by Dennis Burket

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July 4, 2008

Rethinking “IO:” Complex Operations in the Information Age

Rethinking “IO:” Complex Operations in the Information Age
by BG Huba Wass de Czege, US Army, Retired

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June 28, 2008

Improving Information Operations in Iraq and the Global War on Terror

Improving Information Operations in Iraq and the Global War on Terror
by Farook Ahmed and Oubai Shahbandar

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June 25, 2008

The Cost of a Redundant State Media Strategy

Terrorists and Terrorism
The Cost of a Redundant State Media Strategy
by Adam Hammond

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June 22, 2008

Foreign Fighters: How Are They Being Recruited?

Foreign Fighters: How Are They Being Recruited?
Two Imperfect Recruitment Models
by Clinton Watts

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June 15, 2008

Restraint as a Successful Strategy in the 1999 Kargil Conflict

Restraint as a Successful Strategy in the 1999 Kargil Conflict
by Colonel Devendra Pratap Pandey, Indian Army

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June 12, 2008

A Tale of Two Countries

A Tale of Two Countries
Counterinsurgency and Capacity Building in the Pacific
by Dr. Russell W. Glenn

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June 11, 2008

The Erosion of Noncombatant Immunity within Al Qaeda

The Erosion of Noncombatant Immunity within Al Qaeda
by Carl J. Ciovacco

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May 28, 2008

FM 3-0: Operations on the Cusp of Postpositivism

FM 3-0: Operations on the Cusp of Postpositivism
by Christopher R. Paparone

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May 26, 2008

Training Afghan and Iraqi Military Chaplaincies

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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May 20, 2008

Persistence as the 10th Principle of War

Persistence as the 10th Principle of War
by LTC Gregory A. Grimes

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May 17, 2008

Third World Experience in Counterinsurgency

Third World Experience in Counterinsurgency
Cuba’s Operation Carlotta, 1975
by Russ Stayanoff

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May 12, 2008

Force Structure for Small Wars

Force Structure for Small Wars
by Andrew C. Pavord

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May 8, 2008

Guerrilla Warfare and the Indonesian Strategic Psyche

Guerrilla Warfare and the Indonesian Strategic Psyche
by Emmet McElhatton

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May 3, 2008

Maras in Central America

Maras in Central America
National Security Implications of Gang Activity South of the Border
by COL Terry Saltsman and LTC Ben Welch III

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May 2, 2008

Social Epidemics and the Human Element of Counterinsurgency

Social Epidemics and the Human Element of Counterinsurgency
by CPT Nils French

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Why Strategy is Simple

Why Strategy is Simple
by MAJ Aaron Bazin

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April 30, 2008

Iraqi Non-Lethal Contributions to the Counterinsurgency

Iraqi Non-Lethal Contributions to the Counterinsurgency
by CPT Justin Gorkowski

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April 28, 2008

The Counterinsurgency Cliff Notes

The Counterinsurgency Cliff Notes
Techniques for the Conventional Rifle Platoon, in Layman’s Terms
by CPT Craig Coppock

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April 26, 2008

‘What’s Happening In Basra?’

‘What’s Happening In Basra?’
by Paul Smyth

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April 20, 2008

The Birth of the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell

The Birth of the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell
by Stephen Phillips

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April 18, 2008

The Battle for Saydia

The Battle for Saydia:
An Ongoing Case Study in Militia Based Insurgency

by CPT Michael Comstock

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April 17, 2008

The Break Point: AQIZ Establishes the ISI in Zaganiyah

The Break Point: AQIZ Establishes the ISI in Zaganiyah
by CPT James Few

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Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan

Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan
What Foreign Fighter Data Reveals About the Future of Terrorism
by Clinton Watts

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April 14, 2008

Observations from a Year in the Sunni Triangle

Observations from a Year in the Sunni Triangle
by LTC Craig Collier

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April 13, 2008

Understanding Arab Culture

Understanding Arab Culture
by Lazar Berman

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Winning the Ideological Battle for the Support of the Populace

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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March 28, 2008

Security Force Assistance Operations

Considerations for Organizing and Preparing for Security Force Assistance Operations
by COL David Maxwell

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February 17, 2008

The Global Counter Insurgency

The Global Counter Insurgency
America’s New National Security and Foreign Policy Paradigm
by Jonathan Morgenstein & Eric Vickland

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Oil Security and the Necessity for Global Cooperation

Oil Security and the Necessity for Global Cooperation
by Dr. David A. Anderson

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