SWJ Books
Jihadi Terrorism, Insurgency, and the Islamic State—A Small Wars Journal Anthology
This work is the third Small Wars Journal anthology focusing on radical Sunni Islamic terrorist and insurgent groups. It covers this professional journal's writings for 2015 and complements the earlier Global Radical Islamist Insurgency anthologies that were produced as Vol. I: 2007-2011 (published in 2015) and Vol.
Global Radical Islamist Insurgency: Al Qaeda and Islamic State Networks Focus Vol. II: 2012-2014—A Small Wars Journal Anthology
This anthology—the second of an initial two volume set—specifically covers Small Wars Journal writings on Al Qaeda and the Islamic State spanning the years 2012-2014. This set is meant to contribute to U.S. security debates focusing on radical Islamist global insurgency by collecting diverse SWJ essays into more easily accessible formats.
Iranian and Hezbollah Hybrid Warfare Activities—A Small Wars Journal Anthology
This anthology covers Small Wars Journal writings on Iranian and Hezbollah hybrid warfare activities around the world. Writings date from 2007 to 2015, including coverage on the nuclear deal, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) and Qods Force global movements, and Hezbollah’s expanding influence as Iran’s proxy.
Macro-criminalidad: Complejidad y resiliencia de las redes criminales
A Small Wars Journal and Vortex Foundation Book (Español): "Salcedo-Albarán y Garay-Salamanca han creado una obra importante y única: una poderosa y convincente explicación de la tipología de redes macro-criminales, que explica cómo las amenazas del crimen organizado son subestimadas y mal interpretadas po
Drug Trafficking, Corruption and States: How Illicit Networks Shaped Institutions in Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico
Drug Trafficking, Corruption and States (A Small Wars Journal-El Centro and Vortex Foundation Book) is cutting edge research. Garay-Salamanca and Salcedo-Albarán, along with their contributing authors help document the transition from economic to political imperatives within transnational drug cartels. Social Network Analysis is their tool for illuminating the varying dynamics of cartel-state inter-penetration and reconfiguration.
Global Radical Islamist Insurgency: Al Qaeda and Islamic State Networks Focus Vol. I: 2007-2011—A Small Wars Journal Anthology
This anthology—the first of an initial two volume set—specifically covers Small Wars Journal writings on the Al Qaeda network spanning the years 2007-2011. It is followed by a second volume covering the years 2012-2014 that highlights both Al Qaeda and Islamic State activities. Depending on the receptivity of the readers to these volumes, future anthologies may be published.
Mexican Cartel Essays and Notes: Strategic, Operational, and Tactical: A Small Wars Journal-El Centro Anthology
This second Small Wars Journal-El Centro anthology signifies the important debate that this new forum, focusing on the crime wars and criminal insurgencies taking place in Mexico and other regions of the Americas, is helping to generate in U.S. defense and homeland security circles. The debate comes at a time when neither of the two major U.S.
Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal-El Centro Anthology
In sum, this anthology represents some of the best and brightest scholars of today who are writing on the evolving security environment in Mexico and the implications this may hold for the United States. They have greatly enhanced our understanding of crime wars and criminal insurgencies—21st century war and conflict waged by non-state entities—and the impact this new form of warfare is having on states. – Dave Dilegge, SWJ Editor-in-Chief