A Reflection: SWJ and the Media

Of late I've been interviewed by Howard Altman of the Tampa Tribune concerning SWJ and what I'm doing now, down here in the Tampa Bay area. To provide some perspective I provided Howard an informal listing I've been keeping of SWJ news and book references I've come across. Keep in mind this list is not all inclusive and I am sure some of the older links may be broken ones. That said, I thought I'd share this list with our readers:

Small Wars Journal News Media References

• Small Wars: Foreign Policy This Week at War
• The Rolling Stone 2009 Hot List
• Small Wars: Big Ideas (Armed Forces Journal)
• The General's Dilemma (The New Yorker)
• The Petraeus Doctrine (The Atlantic)
• Small Wars Journal Leverages Web 2.0 Trends (Defense Industry Daily)
• The War Over the War (Washington Post)
• Military Brass Joins Wired Troops (Christian Science Monitor)
• McCaffrey Paints Gloomy Picture of Iraq (Washington Post)
• Accept the Blackwater Mercenaries (Los Angeles Times)
• Event on Abu Ghraib Soldier Lynndie England Canceled over Threats (Associated Press)
• In Afghanistan, Training Can Look a Lot Like Fighting (Washington Post)
• What to Read on Fighting Insurgencies (Foreign Affairs)
• Foreign Policy's Twitterati 100 (Foreign Policy)
• The COINdinistas (Foreign Policy)
• Haiti Earthquake: Sovereignty Takes Back Seat as US Takes Command (The Guardian)
• Obama Ups Pakistan Drone Strikes in Assassination Campaign (Christian Science Monitor)
• In Afghan War, Letting Women Reach Women (New York Times)
• Strykers Fight Enemies Abroad, Skeptics at Home (The News Tribune)
• In About-Face, Marines Embrace Web 2.0 (Wired)
• Mexico is Facing Six Wars, Not Just One (Miami Herald)
• The ‘Mullen Doctrine’ Takes Shape (Washington Independent)
• Military’s Haiti Mission Winds Down, But Soft-Power Lessons Linger (Wired)
• Tanks for the Memories: What Sort of Training Does the Army Need to Focus On? (Foreign Policy)
• Are Tanks Obsolete? (The Atlantic)
• Tribal Engagement Workshop (The Nation)
• We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint (New York Times)
• America's Nuclear Intentions (Asia Times)
• Carriers Still Crucial in Protecting U.S. (Kansas City Star)
• Pentagon Still Needs Carriers (New Haven Register)
• Has Afghanistan Aid 'Failed'? (National Journal)
• Military Blogs Ask: Should He Stay or Go? (New York Times)
• Should McChrystal be Fired? Pundits Weigh In (CBS News)
• The Replacements: 5 McChrystal Successors (Daily Beast)
• Changing Generals Changes Nothing in Afghanistan (Salon)
• Gen. David Petraeus' Strategy for Afghanistan: It Works (Politics Daily)
• Some Good Advice from the Field for Gen. Petraeus (Weekly Standard)
• The New (and Old) Classics of Counterinsurgency (Middle East Report)
• Military Blogger Yon Threatens to Sue McChrystal (Politico)
• PSYOP: On a Complete Change in Organization, Practice, and Doctrine (The Falling Leaf)
• Reaction on Military Blogs to the WikiLeaks Video (New York Times)
• Counterinsurgency (Newsweek)
• Petraeus' COIN Guidance 'Prematurely Released' (Defense News)
• A Post-War Corps (Marine Corps Gazette)
• America Takes the War Deeper into Pakistan (Reuters)
• Foreign Policy: Petraeus' War Inside The Beltway (National Public Radio)
• Send In Marines To Stop The Spread Of Cholera (National Public Radio)
• Don’t Confuse 'Psychological Operations' With Soup (National Defense Magazine)
• Zero Tolerance of Casualties for Iraq (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Mark Twain on Counterinsurgency (The Atlantic)
• Service Members Face New Threat: Identity Theft (New York Times)
• Policy Puts Troops at Risk for Identity Theft (Army Times)
• Troops’ Social Security Numbers Should be Protected (Army Times)
• Military Overuses PII Raises ID Theft Risk (Government Info Security)
• Talk to Terrorists (Boston Globe)
• New Year's Resolutions for the Pentagon (Federal News Radio)
• Could South Korean Drills Spark War With North? (The Atlantic)
• Ready, Aim, Retire: 7 Top Officers’ Epic Implosions (Wired)
• Our World: Sudanese Crossroads (Jerusalem Post)
• Gates Recommends New Army Chief of Staff (Federal Computer Week)
• Small Wars Journal (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Nir Rosen Resigns Over Comments on Lara Logan Sexual Assault in Egypt (Big Government)
• Five Reasons Why Georgia Lost The August War (Georgian Daily)
• From NACHOS to MAHEM: Naming The World's Most Advanced Military Tech (Popular Science)
• Ex-Pentagon Adviser Says US Should Cut Afghan Aid (Associated Press)
• Report Urges Rethink of US Aid in Afghanistan: Less Money, Narrower Focus, Clearer Objectives (Canadian Press)
• Imposing a No-fly Zone in Libya (WTOP Radio)
• From Afghanistan to Libya; Rethinking the Role of the Military (Reuters)
• Is U.S. Aid to Afghanistan Helping Win the War? Doubts are Increasing. (Christian Science Monitor)
• Petraeus, Polls Disagree On Afghan War Progress (Huffington Post)
• How the U.S. Military Fell in Love with ‘Three Cups of Tea’ (Washington Post)
• Getting Gaddafi (The American Spectator)
• COIN Stars (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Crossing Bones at Zero Line (Huffington Post)
• Obama's Milquetoast Islamic Extremism Strategy (Human Events)
• Soldier's Afghan Strategy: One Village Elder at a Time (CNN)
• Military Probing Helicopter Attack (Boston Herald)
• How We Became a Nation of Warriors (Salon)

Small Wars Journal Book References

• The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by Dr. David Kilcullen
• Counterinsurgency by Dr. David Kilcullen (Dedication)
• Lifting the Fog of Peace: How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War by Dr. Janine Davidson
• War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age by Thomas Rid and Marc Hecker
• The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas E. Ricks
• State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America's Empire by Stephen Glain
• The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan.