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Freefall in the Emirates
They kept saying they had not been affected by the current crisis, but evidence -- both anecdotal and economic -- is piling up:With Dubai’s economy in free fall, newspapers ha...
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Tom Ricks on the Daily Show
I was out drinking at Kelly's Irish Times last night with several of the brightest young security studies scholars that I know and thus missed Tom Ricks on The Daily Show. (I ...
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More Thoughts on Kabul
Kip (remember Kip?) wrote in to offer comment on yesterday's post:I understand the emotional underpinning of your reaction to today's attack in Kabul and the need for urgency ...
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Greatest. Headline. Ever.
The Sun is the most effective instrument of what passes for allied information operations. That's really sad. (Thanks, Mitch.)...
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Why worry? They're probably just hitting on girls at the mall.
If you haven't been scared to death recently, by all means click on this link (.pdf). 11 of these dudes were in Gitmo. The Saudis are asking for help finding these guys. For t...
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God Bless Australia
The 31-year-old, who was in the water with a police diver, managed to punch the shark a few times and then swim to a safety boat nearby....
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Really?
Did Tom Ricks really just describe David Kilcullen as "the Crocodile Dundee of counterinsurgency" on NPR? Because everyone knows Dave is the Shane Warne of counterinsurgency. ...
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The F-22 as Stimulus
Those of you who still read the paper copy of the Washington Post in the morning could not have helped but notice the full-page color advertisement for the F-22 in today's fro...
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Waltz (Not Kenneth)
Yesterday, I went to see Waltz with Bashir. It was, as expected, pretty amazing. The entire audience stayed in their seats at the end to watch the credits. I myself had troubl...
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An Open Letter to Tom Ricks
Dear Tom, Stop saying the surge worked militarily but failed politically. If it failed politically, it failed militarily. A better way of expressing what I think you are tryin...
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Imagine 400 Abu Muqawamas
Look, this is all well and good, but before you start filling the ranks of our nation's officer corps with smart-ass Ivy Leaguers, I suggest you check with some of my former c...
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Tone? A question for the readership.
Anyone who has read what I write in print about defense policy knows that it's pretty bland and serious. (Examples are here and here and here.) The way I blog, by contrast, is...
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Fraud, Waste and Abuse
Hooray, contractors! Remember, kids: the free market is always more efficient than a government agency. So it's a good thing we out-sourced the most important national foreign...
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Gian Gentile versus Abu Muqawama, Round 582
I assume most of you have seen Gian Gentile's latest piece, in Foreign Policy. He takes a series of statements regarding defense policy and then offers a short argument in fav...
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Abu Muqawama will be named PDAS for trash-talking tomorrow
The appointment of Michèle Flournoy, while expected, is key. Seriously, can you believe that once upon a time, Doug Feith held this position?Subject: President-elect Obama ann...
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Abu Muqawama for War Czar!
The following is an honest-to-goodness conversation that just took place between me and my mother in her kitchen: "Mom, do you think gays have the right to be angry with Obama...
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Some More Thoughts on India vs Pakistan--Kabul edition?
Picking up on Charlie’s post from yesterday, Troy would like to add a few quick thoughts about India and Pakistan in Afghanistan. One can make an argument that an attack on th...
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India vs Pakistan--Kabul edition?
Charlie was reading through this morning's coverage of the massive suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul, when she came across this in the NYT: The fact that the Ind...
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Abu Abed Falls -- Will the SoIs Follow? (Updated)
Very interesting piece by Ned Parker in the LAT on the rise and fall of Sons of Iraq (SoI) superstar Abu Abed (the guy on the far right in the picture above). Abu Abed came to...
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Introducing Abu M's 6th Man
In keeping with our finest traditions of wicked smaht COIN analysis and ridiculously absurd pseudonyms, Charlie is thrilled to introduce the newest addition to the Abu M blogg...