Abu Muqawama: COIN CT
Counterinsurgency - Lessons from Pakistan
November 17, 2009 | Posted by Londonstani - 11:48am | 5 Comments
There's little news coming out from independent sources about the Pakistani army's campaign in Waziristan. The suspicion amongst the international journalists and analysts is that the Pakistani army doesn't have the capacity to take out militants without causing serious collateral damage to civilians, and so the result of the present action will be further militancy in the future.
Droning on
July 5, 2009 | Posted by Ibn Muqawama - 1:39pm | 43 Comments
I don't know about you, but I spent my Independence Day catching up on my Foreign Affairs reading.
Sageman vs. Hoffman (and COIN vs. CT)
June 9, 2008 | Posted by Charlie - 10:18am | 9 Comments
Our cousins across the Atlantic drew our attention to the growing feud between terrorism scholars Bruce Hoffman and Mark Sageman:
You no longer need a subscription to Foreign Affairs (or an Athens password) to
Saddam and the Terrorists
March 22, 2008 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 6:31am | 14 Comments
Several of this blog's right-of-center readers were offended we linked to the left-of-center journalist Spencer Ackerman's hatchet job on Stephen F. Hayes and Jeffrey Goldberg. Yeah, sorry, but Hayes and Goldberg deserved every word of it.
