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The following authors have published Journal Articles in Small Wars Journal. 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.

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SWJ Editors (680)

Octavian Manea (32)

Octavian Manea is Editor of FP Romania, the Romanian edition of Foreign Policy.

Michael Yon (21)

Michael Yon is a former Green Beret, native of Winter Haven, Fl. who has been reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan since December 2004. No other reporter has spent as much time with combat troops in these two wars. Michael’s dispatches from the frontlines have earned him the reputation as the premier independent combat journalist of his generation. His work has been featured on “Good Morning America,” The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, ABC, FOX, as well as hundreds of other major media outlets all around the world.

Gary Anderson (20)

Gary Anderson is a retired Marine Corps Colonel who served as a Special Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense on Counterinsurgency from 2003-05. He served on an embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq in 2009-10, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Relations.

Youssef Aboul-Enein (18)

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.

Mike Few (12)

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

Ben Zweibelson (12)

Major Ben Zweibelson is an active duty Infantry Officer in the US Army with over 17 years of combined service. He has a Masters in Liberal Arts from Louisiana State University, a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences in Theater Operations from the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), and a Masters in Military Operational Arts and Sciences from the United States Air Force (Air Command and Staff College Program). A veteran of OIF 1 and OIF 6, Ben is currently deployed to Afghanistan where he is serving as an Action Officer in the Commander's Action Group (CAG), NATO Training Mission Afghanistan (NTM-A).

Adam Elkus (9)

Adam Elkus is an analyst specializing in foreign policy and security. He is Associate Editor at Red Team Journal. He is a frequent contributor to Small Wars Journal and has published at numerous venues including The Atlantic, Defense Concepts, West Point CTC Sentinel, Infinity Journal, and other publications. He is an associate at SWJ El Centro and blogs at Rethinking Security.

Chris Paparone (8)

Chris Paparone is an associate professor, Department of Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Operations, US Army Command & General Staff College, at the Fort Lee Virginia Campus. He is also a retired Army colonel with 29 years of active service. He has published numerous articles and book chapters and is currently working on a book titled "Military Design and a Critique of Modern Military Science."

Lawrence Chickering (7)

A. Lawrence Chickering is a social entrepreneur and writer who designs and implements civil society strategies in public policy. He is founder and President of Educate Girls Globally (EGG), which has developed a powerful program for promoting girls’ education and empowering traditional communities by reforming government schools, partnering with the government of the very tribal state of Rajasthan in India. He has concentrated his recent writing on the uses of civil society in foreign policy and, more specifically, in counterinsurgency warfare. He is coauthor of Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (2006). His other, great interest is conflict management and the search for a transpartisan politics. He has written two books on that subject: Beyond Left and Right (1993) and (with James S. Turner) Voice of the People: The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life (2008). He is a regular contributor to the SWJ.

John Sullivan (7)

John P. Sullivan is a career police officer. He currently serves as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism (CAST). He is co-editor of Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network (Routledge, 2006) and Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses (Routledge, 2010). His current research focus is the impact of transnational organized crime on sovereignty in Mexico and elsewhere.

Frank Hoffman (6)

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 Bunker (6)

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.

Dave Maxwell (4)

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.

Crispin Burke (4)

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.