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SWJ Blog is a multi-author blog publishing news and commentary on the various goings on across the broad community of practice. We gladly accept guest posts from serious voices in the community.
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/22/2015 - 5:44am | 0 comments
SWJ's "Drudge-like" National Defense & Foreign Affairs News & Opinion Page (Updated 24/7)
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/21/2015 - 8:05pm | 0 comments
Terrorism experts are now seeing growing similarities between Boko Haram and ISIS.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/20/2015 - 11:15pm | 1 comment
Understanding the nature of violent conflict in the world's most dangerous flashpoints may help find ways to peace and stability, according to a Stanford expert.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/20/2015 - 2:32pm | 0 comments
A series of recommendations for what the President should say about key issue areas.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/20/2015 - 2:16pm | 44 comments
Creatively thinking about warfare ought to be encouraged and we must resist institutional attempts to codify how to approach thinking.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/20/2015 - 4:59am | 0 comments
A list of books recommended by Security Studies Program faculty members.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:47am | 0 comments
A team of analysts at King’s College in London is building an exhaustive database of western Islamic State fighters – through Twitter and Facebook.
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/08/2015 - 12:15pm | 3 comments
There is no question that the United States should do what it can to minimize civilian casualties.
by Gary Anderson | Wed, 01/07/2015 - 6:33pm | 9 comments
We need to destroy the Islamic State army sooner than later.
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/07/2015 - 2:23pm | 0 comments
Surveys are now a common, though largely unacknowledged, counterinsurgency tool of the contemporary battlefield.
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 01/04/2015 - 2:17pm | 86 comments
Washington Post book review by Carter Malkasian.
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 01/03/2015 - 3:52pm | 2 comments
The newly dominant zealots calling themselves Islamic State produced gruesome videos...
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 12/31/2014 - 9:51am | 0 comments
"I found three types of conflicts that were not on many lists but should be. Each, for different reasons, represents a trend worth paying attention to."
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 12/30/2014 - 8:50am | 2 comments
The key factor is senior leadership that has not kept faith with its troops.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 12/29/2014 - 5:43pm | 0 comments
A retired four-star Marine Corps general, now the U.S. ‘special envoy’ in the war against the terrorist army, on reasons for optimism even as a long fight looms.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 12/29/2014 - 11:08am | 3 comments
The rifle that today's infantry uses is little changed since the 1960s—and it is badly flawed.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 12/29/2014 - 9:05am | 17 comments
The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation…
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 12/28/2014 - 12:22pm | 0 comments
The United States and NATO formally marked the end of their war in Afghanistan Sunday.
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 12/22/2014 - 1:59pm | 0 comments
Back to the future for headline junkies. Updated 29 Dec and now to 24/7 ops!
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 12/18/2014 - 7:04pm | 0 comments
"And they are impressive warriors! We have not come across bad ones, as strange at it may seem to you when you know how critical French people can be."
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 12/17/2014 - 2:18pm | 1 comment
Obama announced a major shift in U.S. relations with Cuba, after the country’s communist leaders released Alan Gross, an American who had been imprisoned there for five years.