Here's my vote, which provides a nice alternative to the current SWJ logo :D
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs585....7_618221_n.jpg
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Here's my vote, which provides a nice alternative to the current SWJ logo :D
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs585....7_618221_n.jpg
There is also a message for the media in there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5m4...eature=related
Scotch, yes; Oreos, no. I have to admit, I shudder at the juxtaposition :eek::D!
Oh, Gods..... GET IT WRITTEN NOW!!!!!!!!! Seriously, Bob, I've already got one of your papers on the required reading list, but I want that!!!!!
Personally, I'd take an image of a trooper, put a media guys on his back, an NGO person on their back, and a politician on top of them and sub-title it "The modern, agile soldier". Then again, I've been told I have a low sense of humour... :confused:.
In Dear John (yes I watched it. If you didn't, then you got your own issues). Anyways, in Dear John, there was a great scene when the Green Beret was patting an indigenous soldier on the shoulder as he was executing a task. I thought that scene summed up small wars perfectly.
Zombie COIN. Sounds like something in the vein of this book.
Zombies?
Those are the little kids with AK-47s and dead eyes...
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Page...-with-ak47.jpg
http://www.iansa.org/documents/images/tamba-ak47.jpg
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...d-abuse-16.jpg
Peter Pan he ain't
http://www.fmft.net/African%20Infant...047%20%201.jpg
http://ak47.lanternblog.com/Images/zulu.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FtuG0ZOGjI...n+soldiers.jpg
(the one on the right, obviously)
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/burm.../child-soldier
http://images.lightstalkers.org/imag...dier_large.jpg
Notice a theme here?
How about something that symbolizes service members, government officials, NGOs and academics working together? Maybe have all four of them circled in a war zone, talking?
An image that that symbolizes modern war?
I can't resist:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...52_3196357.jpg
(I know McChrystal shut it down, but the KFC is opening and Timmies is still there)
The Kandahar AFB Burger King is a great idea to include, BK's lawyers might disagree though...so maybe a generic burger sign over the "Swiss town square" somewhere.
I also like the image of all the service members, NGO types, Academics and assorted USG folks together playing poker....
Who should be included in the academics at the epicenter of this piece?
Nagl, Gentile, Kilcullen, Petraeus, Crocker, Exum...
McChrystal? Mattis?
Who else?
Why just fixate on current events? This isn't the SWJ Current Conflicts Town Square, either. Small Wars are timeless in so many ways (and will most likely remain so until Wilf can impose his war dictatorship that only allows major state-on-state refereed events....;)). You could have a bemused member of Marius' Mules resting on his pilum and looking at his modern counterpart (a Marine, perhaps, with his 100lb+ 'combat load'). Behind them could be a member of Mackenzie's Fourth Cavalry kitted out for campaign, and the ubiquitous "Red Coat" fitted for an extended patrol in India or Afghanistan. Scouts and auxiliaries from all eras could be shown brewing coffee around a fire, waiting for the large state troops to get their acts in gear.
The idea of small wars transcends eras, no matter how much doctrinal bickering may currently surround them.
Giap would be a candidate for sure. Che already has his own t-shirt.
How about the picture of Che on the morgue slab :)it was published in a lot of papers back in the day.