British Army Major General Barney White-Spunner, General Officer Commanding, Multi-National Division-Southeast, speaks via satellite with reporters at the Pentagon on developments in Basra, 14 July...

The Demise of Secretary Wynne By J. Bernhard "Jon" Compton Recently I was privileged to witness a small piece of history. While visiting a friend at the Pentagon, I stood next to the office door of...

Yesterday our Nation lost one of our finest leaders, Tony Snow, who passed away at age 53 after a long struggle with cancer. Tony was a man who was deeply committed to his faith, family, and to his...

... read this one - An Army That Learns by David Ignatius of The Washington Post. Here are the opening paragraphs: The U.S. Army has done something remarkable in its new history of the disastrous...

One could argue, quite reasonably, that there is much to improve in regards to civil-military relations within the US Government and, in particular, the US Department of Defense. For those who work...

We've all heard humorless America-haters promote themselves by announcing, As Thomas Jefferson said, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." The first problem with that self-righteous bull is...

John Bennett of Defense News (subscription required) has reported "on DC talk" that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, Under Secretary of Defense (...

The United States Institute of Peace - Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations - posted a Metrics Framework today on the USIP web page. USIP describes the framework as follows - USIP-...

Yesterday's Inside the Pentagon had an excellent overview of current efforts underway in the Department of Defense to address issues associated with Irregular Warfare - Joint Panel Blesses New...

Major General Michael Oates, Commander of Multi-National Division-Center, and 10th Mountain Division, speaks with reporters at the Pentagon, providing an operational update on 10 July 2008.

Iran's Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities by Keith Crane, Rollie Lal and Jeffrey Martini; Rand Corporation Monograph. Iran is one of the United States' most important foreign...

Charlie Rose Show - A conversation with two former Secretaries of State, James Baker and Warren Christopher, about the war powers debate. National War Powers Commission - Miller Center of Public...

Major General Kevin Bergner, MNF-I Spokesman, and Rear Admiral Kathleen Dussault, Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan Commander, speak with reporters in Baghdad on 9 July 2008.

Worlds of Enemy Combatants By Michael Innes - Cross-posted at CTLab On 3 July, The New Republic's TNR Conversation with Josh Patashnik hosted the Brookings Institution's Benjamin Wittes, author of...

Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt Remarks at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Future Land Warfare Conference 12 June 2008 The Land Environment -- Moving Towards 2018...

New MH-53M Helicopter Exhibit Opens By Rob Bardua, National Museum of the US Air Force Several high ranking officials from Air Force Special Operations Command, industry and the community recently...

... There is certainly a wide body of criticism of FM 3-24, to which most of the regulars here are familiar with. Many units who have employed the FM have found strengths and shortfalls in the manual...

Charlie Rose Show - An hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. David McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a "master of the art of narrative history," "a matchless writer." He is...

Iraq's Water Woes By Captain Timothy Hsia News today in Iraq is centered on contracts currently being negotiated between the Government of Iraq and major oil companies. This has occupied much of the...

Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll, MNF-I Spokesman, and Brigadier Carew Wilks, Director of Energy Operations for the Multi-National Force-Iraq Energy Fusion Cell, brief reporters in Baghdad on 6 July...

Part I of selected excerpts from Small Wars II, an unpublished U.S. Marine Corps document written in 2003. Noel Williams is the primary author. The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of...

The Syria Card By David J. Haimsky The ongoing, peace talks between Israel and Syria have been relatively underreported in the news media, and are surprisingly seldom discussed in policy circles in...

Since 1922, Military Review has provided a forum for the open exchange of ideas on military affairs. Subsequently, publications have proliferated throughout the Army education system that specialize...

I thought I'd share with SWJ readership an article recently published in Army magazine (May 2008). In particular - I draw your attention to discussion of our infatuation with the term "Irregular...

Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) asks the question: Is the American era in the Middle East over? The argument was first made by Richard Haass in a Foreign Affairs article published in 2006....

Symbols of America - US Department of Defense Bush, Mullen Send Independence Day Greetings - John Kruzel, AFPS Independence Days - George Will, Washington Post Vindicators of the Declaration -...

I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory! --Signature line of Small Wars Council member William F. Owen

The Marine Corps of 2025 will fight and win our Nation's battles with multicapable MAGTFs, either from the sea or in sustained operations ashore. Our unique role as the Nation's force in readiness,...

We received an e-mail several days ago concerning the new American University of Iraq and getting an entry posted here has been at the top of our list... Our partner in the Afghanistan COIN Academy...

Expeditionary Law Enforcement By John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus Cross-posted at Defense and the National Interest where it was originally published on 29 June 2008. Washington is overflowing with...