Introduction
It was twenty years ago this month that the late Dave Dilegge established Small War Journal (SWJ). His vision at the time was to create a modern virtual town square to allow for the timely exchange of ideas for everything related to “Small Wars” or what we call irregular warfare today. He found his inspiration in the Marine Corps’ Small Wars Manual first published in 1940 which to this day is arguably the most comprehensive manual for addressing all facets of warfare outside the traditional realm. Recall that this was before the explosion of social media platforms.
I met Dave Dilegge virtually in 2005 while I was serving in Korea after I had finished my final professional military education at the National War College the year before. We were in the midst of the Global War on Terrorism and I turned one of my war college essays into an article for the inaugural issue of Small Wars Magazine which was the first publication of Small Wars Journal titled “How do we Fight a War of Ideas.” It was an honor to be among the other plank holders: T.X. Hammes, Russell Glenn, Andrew Harvey, Steve Kluth, Ian Sullivan, Stephen Arata, Thomas Greco, and Adam Strickland. A number of us would contribute to Small Wars Journal and later other like-minded publications for the next two decades. Small Wars Journal provided us and so many others with the platform to express our ideas about small wars, irregular warfare, U.S. national security and the threats we face.
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