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The Regionalization of Hizballah
A few years back, folks were debating when Hizballah would finally become "Lebanonized" and confine their activities to the Lebanese political sphere. Between 2000 and 20005, ...
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On SOF and Piracy
One of the great things about this blog's readership is the readiness it displays to challenge me when topics drift into things about which I know less than a true subject mat...
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America! %$#@ Yeah!
Happy Easter indeed! (More to follow...) MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) -- An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pi...
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"I give a fuck about your chai. I care about the mission."
Boy, here's the most depressing video you will see all week. On the ground with Marine trainers in Afghanistan. (Thanks, B.D.)...
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Pirates on Sunday
My CNAS colleague Bob Kaplan has an op-ed in the New York Times today on -- what else? Aargh! -- pirates. Bob thinks this running fiasco off the Horn of Africa doesn't reflect...
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Next Generation Warfare and the Budget
David Cloud has a piece up on Politico on the way in which Sec. Gates is using the budget to prepare the military for what he sees as the conflicts of the future. The chances...
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Where is Steve Zissou When You Need Him?
Talks between U.S. officials and the pirates have broken down. A friend of mine has been asking whether or not we can send in the Navy SEAL Negotiating Team just yet. "I've ne...
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Sexual Repression at the Heritage Foundation?
I had dinner with an old English Literature professor of mine last night (along with his English Literature professor wife), and while I'm not trying to get all Michel Foucaul...
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On the original unconventional warfare...
I don't know why I bother reading Charles Krauthammer's columns on issues relating to international security. They are always filled with ridiculous lines such as:Having thus ...
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Pirates vs. NinjasU.S. Navy
This is crazy. The New York Times is reporting that the U.S. Navy and the pirates are sending more ships to the standoff. The Guardian, meanwhile, has a helpful scorecard comp...
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How to Worry About the Budget in Ten Easy Steps
Tom Donnelly, after chastising me for not keeping close enough tabs on "the international neo-conservative conspiracy," answered my call and pointed me to this piece in the We...
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Arguing the Surge
I'm not sure I understand (Abu Muqawama reader) Michael Massing's review of The Gamble. Massing spends three pages taking Tom Ricks to task for writing a book about the surge ...
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(A) Good Friday (Afternoon)
Man! Nagl's kid just snuck up on me here in my office. I'm really losing my edge if the sons of armor officers are catching me off-guard. That said, my excuse was that I was w...
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War Games!
This is really funny. Until the end. When it's pretty sad....
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"Noo-ku-lar Combat, toe-to-toe with the Rooskies!"
It's YouTube Day here at Abu Muqawama. And if you're going to watch the Heritage Foundation's "scary" new video about missile defense, it's only appropriate to watch it as a d...
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The "Worrisome" Veteran
Way to go, Penn State. Way to insult all us "crazy" "aggressive" veterans with this "instructional" video. (Thanks, SNLII) Of course, Penn State has a long history of this. I...
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+/-?
So is this defense budget a cut or an increase? I have been calling it a "cut" because I have been including the two FY2008 supplemental budgets in with the FY2008 budget. And...
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A Hawk Responds
As many of you know, we here at the blog have a policy whereby when someone is criticized by name, they have the right to post a response. It's one of the ways we keep ourselv...
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At this moment, we can neither confirm nor deny that Steven Seagal played a role
NAIROBI, April 8 -- The crew of a U.S.-operated container ship that was commandeered by Somali pirates regained control of the vessel Wednesday and seized one of the attackers...
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Abu Muqawama Employs the Strategic Reserve
Michael Cohen is pursuing a Taliban-esque strategy of exhaustion against me both in terms of his articles on Democracy Arsenal and his ridiculously prodigious emailing, which ...