"No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan" - Book review by Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Michigan War Studies Review
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by SWJ Editors | Thu, 05/08/2014 - 7:56am | 0 comments
“If our mission is to set the stage for Afghanistan’s success… it would be a mistake to help deprive Afghanistan of its most important resource: human capital.”
by John P. Sullivan | Thu, 05/08/2014 - 7:27am | 0 comments
Mexico Is Not Colombia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations - RAND Corporation
by SWJ Editors | Thu, 05/08/2014 - 12:12am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 7:54pm | 0 comments
2014 Salute to Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans - Video of Speech by General James N. Mattis, USMC (Ret.)
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 5:13pm | 0 comments
Explaining Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency - New York Times
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 2:20pm | 0 comments
Paging Dr. Abrams: Why This Soldier Thinks We Need a Commission on the Structure of the Army by Adam Maisel, Defense in Depth
by Bing West | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 2:03pm | 2 comments
"The Joint Pub doubles down on the proposition that war is an exercise in civics rather than in destruction."
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 10:50am | 0 comments
U.S. Military Learns COIN Lessons, but They Might Not Be Enough by Steven Metz, World Politics Review
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/07/2014 - 3:10am | 0 comments
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by Robert Bunker | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 3:34pm | 0 comments
"Three enforcers hired by Mexico’s biggest drug cartel flew from Los Angeles to Minnesota last month, kidnapped two local teenagers, and then tortured them for hours."
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 10:08am | 1 comment
"Companies such as IRD were left to manage hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of taxpayer-funded programs with little meaningful oversight from USAID."
by Scott Forster | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 9:34am | 0 comments
Continue on for the latest Landpower update.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 9:28am | 0 comments
“American Landpower, facing a challenging era of defense austerity in the coming years, can play a supporting role in this regard.”
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 9:21am | 0 comments
"The department’s objective was simple, even if its task was not."
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 05/06/2014 - 8:07am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Mon, 05/05/2014 - 6:56pm | 0 comments
"The current debate about Ukraine is troubling for at least three reasons."
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 05/05/2014 - 5:34am | 4 comments
“The intelligence agency’s irregular forces have been key to the fight against the Taliban since 2001. Now they’re being withdrawn.”
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:27pm | 1 comment
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment spent 12 days in Mexico, and confirms that almost “every Mexican police force” abuses detainees.
by SWJ Editors | Sun, 05/04/2014 - 5:16am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 05/03/2014 - 3:17pm | 0 comments
Beyond Cocaine Cowboys: Looking at Security in Latin America from a Different Perspective
by SWJ Editors | Sat, 05/03/2014 - 8:44am | 0 comments
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by SWJ Editors | Sat, 05/03/2014 - 7:12am | 0 comments
Continue on for a link to Rep. Duncan Hunter's letter concerning a possible DIA Director nomination.
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 05/02/2014 - 8:32pm | 0 comments
"On his 100th birthday his family served 3 cakes. One bore the FBI seal, another the five rings of the Olympic Games, and the third the seal of the United States Marine Corps."
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 05/02/2014 - 12:09am | 0 comments
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