There are plenty of great defense, strategy, and intelligence blogs written by professionals and well-known academics. As someone new to the field, I created this blog to help fellow novices wade into the world of war studies. And like any field of study, becoming familiar with the existing literature and ideas is vital to forming your own. Click “subscribe” next to each category to get the feeds as a Google Reader bundle.
Strategy
- The Long War Journal
- Abu Muqawama
- Ink Spots
- Kings of War
- The Offshore Balancer
- Think Defence
- Thinking Strategically
- Clausewitz (Economist)
- Atlantic Review
- On War and Words
- Rethinking Security
- The Best Defense
- Small Wars Journal
Intelligence
- Dirk’s Weblog
- Secrecy News
- National Security Archive (GWU)
- Sources and Methods
- Analysis Intelligence
- “Intelligence Community” feed (Google News)
Military Blogs + News
- Stars and Stripes
- Marine Corps Times
- Army Times
- DoD Buzz
- DefenseNews
- Danger Room (Wired)
- Rafairman’s Blog
- War is Boring
- Michael Yon
- Ares
- At War (NY Times)
- Military History Blog
Conflict Simulation/Wargaming
- PAXSims
- Wargaming Connection
- Play the Past
- Games for Change
- Journal of Simulation
- Simulating War discussion group – a Yahoo group for Dr. Philip Sabin’s book and wargame design in general
Naval + Maritime
- Information Dissemination
- Navy Times
- Lloyd’s List – News
- NOSI Naval Intelligence Feed
- US Naval Institute blog
Regional
- Arabist
- Registan
- CHUP! (Changing Up Pakistan)
- Marc Lynch (FP)
- The AfPak Channel (FP)
- Waq al-Waq (Big Think)
- Wings Over Iraq
- Views From the Occident
- Latin America News Dispatch
- Security Scholar
- Ghosts of Alexander
Commentary
- Gunpowder and Lead
- Thomas Rid
- Shadow Government (FP)
- Dart-Throwing Chimp
- Informed Comment
- Passport (FP)
- Daniel W. Drezner (FP)
- The Future Forum
- @laurenist
- Foreign Policy Fight Club
- The Becker-Posner Blog
- On Violence
- Zenpundit
Resources
Terrorism
- Wanted Dead or Alive (as I said, fuzzy categorization)
- COMOPS Journal
- Jihadica
- Terrorism Monitor (Jamestown Foundation)
- All Things Counter-Terrorism
Miscellaneous
- War is Schlep – an entertaining comic blog by a freshly-commissioned Army Lieutenant
- Afghanistan Tour 2010 – not updated anymore, but it’s worth checking out the old posts
Other Useful Resources
Am I missing something? Email me about a blog or RSS feed I should be including.
