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... They focus primarily on the tactical employment of forces rather than the strategic context those tactics play out in.  Where ... degredation of the Military System. We need an evolving Armed Forces, yet we need to continue tradition, albeit re-invented or revised ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... speak out on an issue of grave importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last ... of American citizens, agents and members of the armed forces may now be guaranteed because we have mindlessly, but happily, broken ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... Lot's of good stuff in the most recent edition of Armed Forces Journal to include the following by SWJ friends and la familia: ...

Blog post - Feb 9 2010 - 6:12pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... means employment. These truths have driven Special Forces, post 9/11, to move far beyond mastery of only the Military in ... Approach to Village Stability Operations , Small Wars Journal, 2011 ( ... what happens when we depart? I suspect a larger and well armed insurgent force relative to the village militia can compel compliance ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 55 comments

... thinking, then these Design concepts have potentially armed the reader with another arrow for his quiver-albeit a ... understanding of Clausewitzian "destroy the fielded forces of the enemy"? I hope that our continued discourse evokes ... exmaple. This article was also published in the Small Wars Journal - "Population As Complex Adaptive Systems - A Case Study of Corruption ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... in 1935, later became Deputy Commander in Chief of French forces in Indochina, commanded troops in Algeria, then led the French corps ... American Military was to protect Americans by the use of armed force,now their purpose and responsibilities are changing constantly at ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... such experience by dealing successfully with a nuclear-armed Iran.) In such cases, good fences make for better neighbors. The ... of his thoughts on centers of gravity and massing forces against those COGs is at least partly what has facilitated the ... scholar, Antulio Echevarria and his essay on Infinity Journal and how centers of gravity have been misused and misunderstood. You ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

... It openly contributes to a rising suicide rate within our armed forces, particularly the US Army.  It is a tool of abuse utilized by the ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... of a constituted government through use of subversion and armed conflict.”   Yet, with all the evidence, ... which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... ‘killer boys’, and the settlement-based ‘Armed Work Forces’ (AWF).  The AWF were essentially Chinese that still ...

Journal Article - Apr 16 2012 - 4:44am - 23 comments