Obama's Pledge: A Responsible End to War in Iraq?
by Bob Tollast
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At the beginning of May, the Commission on Wartime...
Observations from a Year in the Sunni Triangle
By LTC Craig Collier
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From September 2005 to September 2006 my brigade deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi...
Observations of Turkish Islamist
Politics:
Islamic Democrats or Enemies of
Turkish Secularism?
by CDR Youssef Aboul-Enein,
MSC, USN
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Of Concern
by Michael Yon
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Monday, 08 March 2010
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Yesterday, an American involved in the war effort handed me a document. It was an email...
One consistently wrong—but always convenient—prediction has been the improbability of ground wars and the declining utility of ground forces.
Re-evaluate exactly what we want from our educational system and to strip away the non-essential.
Oil Security and the Necessity for Global Cooperation
by Dr. David A. Anderson
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Oman 1965-1976
From Certain Defeat to Decisive Victory
by Jim White, Small Wars Journal
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An often-overlooked counterinsurgency campaign of the mid-20th century was...
Grant Martin offers his thoughts on the rewrite of FM 3-24 and more realistic and sustainable COIN efforts.
On CT vs. COIN
by Andrew Exum, Small Wars Journal Op-Ed
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In advance of the Obama Administration's forthcoming review of policies toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, much...
Octavian continues his inquiry into Pakistan
On Pirates and Strategies
by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bateman, Small Wars Journal
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Let us talk about pirates, and piracy and viable options. But first,...
As contemporary North African societies continue to re-arrange themselves , one of the enduring dilemmas that continues to rise to the fore is what has been described as “the Tuareg question...
On the Aesthetics of Doctrine
by Jason Fritz, Small Wars Journal Op-Ed
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It will come as no surprise to the readers of the Small Wars Journal that there...
On the Future and Options
by Jason Fritz, Small Wars Journal Op-Ed
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Andrew Bacevich's defense of COL Gian Gentile in October's Atlantic, while well...
As cyberspace operations continue to evolve, they raise some unique questions regarding the nature of conflict and how it should be discussed and regulated.
The conventional approach taken by most aid programs has been a counterproductive disaster.
One Cell Phone at a Time:
Countering Corruption in Afghanistan
by Dan Rice and Guy Filippelli
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American commanders are preparing for a major...
One Crusader's View
by Thomas Donnelly, Small Wars Journal Op-Ed
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We have a great duty to perform and we shall show ourselves a weak and poor-spirited people if...
One Hundred Honest Preachers
by Dr. Scott Corey
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US combat forces will begin to withdraw from Afghanistan in July of 2011. Afghan military and...
The practical application of the principles of VSO over 150 days of planning, operations, and refinement in Afgahnistan.
One Week with Task Force Buffalo
Changing the Face of the Arghandab
by Captain Jonathan Pan
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A rebuttal to Sean Naylor's Army Times Article...
Open Veins of Mexico: The Strategic Logic of Cartel Resource Extraction and Petro-Targeting by John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus.
Rebuilding our special reconaissance capability.
Thinking and Acting Like an Early Explorer:
Operational Art is Not a Level of War
by Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege (US Army Ret.)
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Operational Check-Fire
An Assessment of Our Operational Concept of Operations in Support of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Interagency Policy and Goals
by R.J. Buikema
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Operational Design: Promise and Problems
by Adam Elkus and Crispin Burke
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Approaches to Operational Design have become increasingly...
Optimizing Use of the Armed Forces in Combating Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations
by Braden Civins
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Ordinary Men and Abhorrent Behavior
by Christopher S. Knott
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Although the world has seen many horrible events which defy...
Organizing Counterinsurgency Operations in Afghanistan
by Colonel Donald C. Bolduc
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The collapse of the Taliban and al Qaeda...
Our Ambivalent Iraqi-Kurdistan Policy
by Colonel Dennis P. Chapman
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Twenty-three years ago I was nearing the end of a miserable Plebe...
A look at the issues behind the use of private security contractors.
Constraint, imagination, and collaboration can produce meaningful innovations.
