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Win Wars?

... Win Wars? Today's General Politicks and Does P.R., Too is the title of a New ... fourth, ad infinitum effects than Dog 1 and beyond on 6 June 1944. Sorry but such utterances display a profound lack of understanding ... of whether they were hic or lic, conventional or small, coin or hybrid, whatever, are either simpler or more difficult than ...

Blog post - Aug 12 2010 - 8:14pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments

Small Wars Journal, Operated by Small Wars Foundation

... Small Wars Foundation assumed ownership and operation of Small Wars Journal from ...

Blog post - Jun 4 2008 - 5:26pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Military Review: May - June 2008 Issue

... Despite their quick overthrow in 2002 by a small coalition of U.S. forces and anti-Taliban groups, the Taliban has not ... changing world. From 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and emerging threats to the homeland, 21st-century ...

Blog post - Apr 21 2008 - 6:20pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rethinking Revolution: Introduction

... theories, and analysis, we continue to muddle through small wars.  Why?  Perhaps, we often choose mass over maneuver and speed ...

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

Small Wars June

... 4th of July, we have a goal of raising $50,000 for Small Wars Foundation, the 501(c)(3) that operates Small Wars Journal . ...

Blog post - May 31 2010 - 3:00pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Reflections from the Valley’s Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban

... in order to understand the human terrain, familiar with small unit tactics, and have a background in political and social science ... and theoretical constructs that have been used in these wars and were largely developed in the safety of national capitals. Could you ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments

Malaya: The Myth of Hearts and Minds

... and economically stable and viable’, not win wars. There is a strong revisionist camp argument that the hearts and minds ... the popularity of this tactic, ‘a surprisingly small number of Chinese casualties were inflicted’ (Symposium, p. 32 ...

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

Language, Culture, and Army Culture: Failing Transformation

... capacity into coherent teams; this might require only a small number of core personnel at Army Service Component Command or Combatant ... , October 2004, 33. The fantasy of short, high-tech wars and rapid redeployments yielded only slowly to recognition that an era of ...

Journal Article - Mar 20 2012 - 5:26am - 30 comments

To Design or Not to Design (Part Five)

... (Obama, Libya, and the Dubious Ethics of Modern Air Wars, TNR, 22 March 2011)? B.H. Liddell Hart states, in his book Strategy, ... And, the elephant in the room on that one is that only a small percentage of any group of humans will possess the right combination of ...

Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 5:58am - 34 comments

Unified Quest Army Future Game

... think it is interesting (and good) that GEN Cone posts on Small Wars Journal and uses it as a tool to communicate. Since he is posting here, he ...

Blog post - May 16 2012 - 8:54am - 14 comments - 0 attachments