Small wars are operations undertaken under executive authority, wherein military force is combined with diplomatic pressure in the internal or external affairs of another state whose government is unstable, inadequate, or unsatisfactory for the preservation of life and of such interests as are determined by the foreign policy of our Nation.
--Small Wars Manual, 1940
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SWJ Magazine
The new and still-improving SWJ Magazine is now available here. It's ugly, but it works. We have a large number of quality articles that we'll be publishing there as quickly as possible, and we're working on dressing all of them up wth the formatting, edits, and such that the content deserves.
Recent Activity -- Last 10
SWJ Blog
- 9 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup by SWJ Editors
- Visualizing Transition from the “Bottom Up” by SWJ Editors
- Iraq’s Water Woes by SWJ Editors
- Iraq Update by SWJ Editors
- 8 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup by SWJ Editors
- 7 July SWJ Blog Roundup by SWJ Editors
- 7 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup by SWJ Editors
- What is a Small War? by SWJ Editors
- The Syria Card by SWJ Editors
- 6 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup by SWJ Editors
The most recent comments on the SWJ Blog are:
- SWJED on Visualizing Transition from the “Bottom Up”
- arifJAA on Expeditionary Law Enforcement
- arifJAA on Expeditionary Law Enforcement
- Paparone on A Reflection on the Illogic of New Military Concepts
- walrus on The Syria Card
- walrus on Over for America in Middle East?
- Rob Thornton on A Reflection on the Illogic of New Military Concepts
- Norfolk on A Reflection on the Illogic of New Military Concepts
- max161 on A Reflection on the Illogic of New Military Concepts
- Herschel Smith on Over for America in Middle East?
SWJ Magazine
- Visualizing Transition from the “Bottom Up”
- Rethinking “IO:” Complex Operations in the Information Age
- Improving Information Operations in Iraq and the Global War on Terror
- The Cost of a Redundant State Media Strategy
- Foreign Fighters: How Are They Being Recruited?
- Restraint as a Successful Strategy in the 1999 Kargil Conflict
- A Tale of Two Countries
- The Erosion of Noncombatant Immunity within Al Qaeda
- FM 3-0: Operations on the Cusp of Postpositivism
- Training Afghan and Iraqi Military Chaplaincies
The most recent comments on the SWJ Magazine are:
- jack brown on Restraint as a Successful Strategy in the 1999 Kargil Conflict
- jack brown on Restraint as a Successful Strategy in the 1999 Kargil Conflict
- jack brown on The Birth of the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell
- SteveAlexander on Iraqi Non-Lethal Contributions to the Counterinsurgency
- ProfHollywood on Persistence as the 10th Principle of War
- arifJAA on Persistence as the 10th Principle of War
- ProfHollywood on Persistence as the 10th Principle of War
- arifJAA on Persistence as the 10th Principle of War
- Steven Metz on Why Strategy is Simple
- arifJAA on Why Strategy is Simple
Small Wars Council Discussion Board
The 10 newest threads at Small Wars Council are:
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