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The authors listed below have published posts in the SWJ Blog. See also this separate list of authors published in the SWJ Blog. We greatly appreciate these authors choosing to share their work to the community through us, and thank them for advancing the dialogue on the complex problems of small wars.

Speaking of complexity, this long list is in alphabetical order by first character of the byline, because that's how we've got the data. If you're searching for a last name, try your browser's Find On Page search feature or our site search.

Until our pre-Aug 2011 items areupdated, they will show SWJ Editors as the author due to the limitations of our prior system. You can see the real byline when you open the article.

The SWJ Blog is a multi-author blog powered by a coalition of the —and highly able. We publish contributed guest posts from across the community, screened by SWJ Editors per our editorial policy. We publish work we think credibly represents an important view that adds to the dialog, not work that reinforces any particular position. We tend toward pragmatism but are otherwise agnostic of any particular platform; we host a neutral and open tent for serious thought and discussion, not a forum for advocacy.

We also offer a few regular contributors an outlet for their work as SWJ Bloggers. They are free to post what and when they want, without editorial direction or interference. Through their years of professional achievement, they've shown us they merit our trust and this vehicle for their thoughts. By pooling together, we achieve enough volume to keep things fresh for our readers, and we gain other synergies from the huge mountain of talent. But individual contributors are, in essence, writing their own blogs.

The current SWJ Bloggers, in alphabetical order are: Crispin Burke, Robert Bunker, Robert Haddick, Dave Kilcullen, Malcolm Nance, John Sullivan.

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SWJ Editors (3248)

Dave Dilegge (525)

Dave Dilegge is Editor in Chief of Small Wars Journal and serves as a Director at Small Wars Foundation.

Robert Haddick (325)

Robert Haddick is Managing Editor of Small Wars Journal. He writes the “This Week at War” column for Foreign Policy. Haddick was a U.S. Marine Corps officer, served in the 3rd and 23rd Marine Regiments, and deployed to Asia and Africa. He has advised the State Department and the National Intelligence Council on irregular warfare issues. In the private sector, Haddick was Director of Research at the Fremont Group, a large private investment firm and an affiliate of the Bechtel Corporation. He established the firm's global proprietary trading operation and was president of one of Fremont's overseas investment subsidiaries. In addition to Foreign Policy and Small Wars Journal, Haddick's writing has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Air & Space Power Journal, and other publications. He has appeared in many radio and television interviews. Contact Robert at robert@smallwarsjournal.com.

Mike Few (63)

Michael Few is a retired military officer who served multiple combat tours to Iraq including the Thunder Runs and The Surge, and he currently serves as the editor of Small Wars Journal. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and studied small wars at the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA

Peter J. Munson (63)

Peter J. Munson is a Marine officer, KC-130 pilot, and Middle East Foreign Area Officer currently assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command. He is the author of two books, Iraq in Transition: The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy (Potomac, 2009) and War, Welfare, and Democracy: Rethinking America's Quest for the End of History (Potomac, forthcoming in fall 2012). A frequent contributor to multiple journals and blogs, including his own, he is also the Editor of the Small Wars Journal. You can follow his Twitter feed @peterjmunson. All views are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Marine Corps or Department of Defense.

Robert Bunker (28)

Dr. Robert J. Bunker holds degrees in political science, government, behavioral science, social science, anthropology-geography, and history. Training taken includes that provided by DHS, FLETC, DIA, Cal DOJ, Cal POST, LA JRIC, NTOA, and private security entities in counter-terrorism, counter-surveillance, incident-response, force protection, and intelligence. Dr. Bunker has been involved in red teaming and counter-terrorism exercises and has provided operations support within Los Angeles County.

Bing West (22)

Bing West served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration. A graduate of Georgetown and Princeton Universities, he served in the Marine infantry. He was a member of the Force Recon team that initiated attacks behind North Vietnamese lines. He wrote the counterinsurgency classic, The Village, that has been on the Commandant's Reading List for 40 years. His books have won the Marine Corps Heritage Prize, the Colby Award for Military History, the VFW Media Award and the General Goodpaster Soldier-scholar Award. He has been on hundreds of patrols and operations throughout Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Bing is a member of St. Crispin's Order of the Infantry and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Youssef Aboul-Enein (21)

Commander Aboul-Enein is a Navy Medical Service Corps Officer involved in Middle East affairs and counter-terrorism since 9-11. He is author of “Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat,” (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2010) and “Iraq in Turmoil: Historical Perspectives of Dr. Ali al-Wardi from the Ottomans to King Feisal,” (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2012). Commander Aboul-Enein is a Defense Department Counter-Terrorism Adviser, and teaches part-time at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington D.C. He is working with his brother on a manuscript looking into Allied and Axis intelligence and propaganda operations in the World War Two Middle-East.

Crispin Burke (21)

Captain Crispin J. Burke is qualified in the UH-60 Black Hawk and LUH-72A Lakota helicopters, and has served as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, a battalion S-3 at Joint Task Force-Bravo in Honduras, and as a company commander in the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum. He currently serves as the lead Observer/Controller-Trainer (O/C-T) for Unmanned Aerial Systems at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center at Hohenfels, Germany. He blogs at Small Wars Journal and at his own blog, Wings Over Iraq.

John Nagl (17)

Dr. John Nagl is is teaching the “History of Modern Counterinsurgency Warfare” as the Minerva Professor in the Department of History at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is a former President of the Center for a New American Security. He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

Dave Kilcullen (15)

Dr. David Kilcullen is the founding President and CEO of Caerus Associates LLC, a strategic design consultancy with a focus on the overlapping problems of conflict, climate change, energy, health and governance. Caerus operates in challenging environments worldwide, from the field to the policy level, with a presence on four continents and provides design solutions for NGOs, communities, private industry and government.

Frank Hoffman (15)

Frank Hoffman is a retired Marine Reserve Officer. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University and the Director of NDU Press. He is also a frequent contributor to Small Wars Journal.

Robert Bateman (13)

Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Bateman is an infantryman, historian and prolific writer. Bateman was a Military Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and has taught Military History at the U.S. Military Academy. He is currently stationed in Washington, D.C. Bateman has authored two books: "Digital War, A View from the Front Lines" (Presidio: 1999) and "No Gun Ri, A Military History of the Korean War Incident" (Stackpole, 2002). He's also contributed to or co-authored seven more. Bateman's byline has appeared on more than 300 print and major national web site articles.

Jim Guirard (10)

A DC-area attorney, writer, lecturer and anti-Terrorism strategist, Jim Guirard was longtime Chief of Staff to US Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long. His TrueSpeak Institute and TrueSpeak.org website are devoted to truth-in-language and truth-in-history in public discourse.

Dave Maxwell (10)

David S. Maxwell is the Associate Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. He is a retired US Army Special Forces Colonel with command and staff assignments in Korea, Japan, Germany, the Philippines, and CONUS, and served as a member of the military faculty teaching national security at the National War College. He is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, the Command and General Staff College, the School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth and the National War College, National Defense University.