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An Insurgency Ends
Just arrived back at the desk after a weekend away and discovered the over 200 unread email messages waiting for me. Apologies to anyone trying to get in touch with me -- it m...
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What Happens After COIN? The Emerging Sri Lanka Case
AM's already beaten me to the punch. (Not that I blame him, I have been absent. My org's firewall now blocks anything with the word "blog" in the URL, so I can't access there,...
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Surging and Awakening
In the geekish circles in which I run, this Dexter Filkins review of The Gamble in The New Republic this week has generated some heated opinions. On the one hand, reading this...
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Special Abu Muqawama Interview: P.W. Singer
Gang, I am in East Tennessee this weekend for a wedding, so to keep the readership amused, I give you Peter Singer from the Brookings Institute. Pete is the author of the exce...
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9 out of 10 Operators Agree: "The Pope" is the Right Man for the Job
One of the most experienced Afghanistan hands I know had this to say about General McChrystal in an email to me yesterday:All the heavy breathing about him being A Killer Man ...
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Talkin' Afghanistan
I just taped an episode of To The Point with David Ignatius, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), John Mueller, and some Canadian journalist who talked the most sense of any of us. You s...
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Counterinsurgency Reading List Updated
For the first time in more than a year, I have updated our famous Counterinsurgency Reading List. Gone is the section on political Islam and Islamist violence, while added are...
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Twofer
If there is a reason to really lament the demise of U.S. newspaper reporting, it is on days like this when we have C.J. Chivers reporting from Afghanistan for the New York Tim...
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FT Interview with Naim Qassem
This interview the Financial Times conducted with Hizballah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem is well worth your time. (The full transcript is here.) On the hilarious side,...
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Building the Team
The New York Times and the Washington Post have dueling profiles of General McChrystal this morning. Neither are terribly illuminating. (The general likes to run!) Our friend ...
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Maddow and the Muqawama
Rachel Maddow just forced me to pronounce the name of this blog on live television, which is how I ended up giving approximately 1.2 million Americans a lesson in how to prono...
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Obama's War
Dave Kilcullen, Ahmed Rashid, Craig Mullaney and noted Afghanistan expert Robert Greenwald discuss the war in Afghanistan on NPR. (Honestly, I have no idea why NPR keeps booki...
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Exum on McChrystal and More
I just taped a very intense interview with Michele Norris of NPR -- that's ME-shell to you -- on Stanley McChrystal, David McKiernan, Afghanistan, Pat Tillman and detainee abu...
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Biddle on Iraq ... and what to do when things go wrong
Steve Biddle has a piece up on the CFR website on contingency plans for Iraq -- or, as I like to call it, "America's Forgotten War"©. Most likely scenario that would lead to a...
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McKiernan's Defenders
Watch CNN's Barbara Starr go after both Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen in yesterday's press conference around the six-minute mark of this video. Just watch. Starr, like ma...
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McKiernan Out, McChrystal In (Updated)
Today, I delivered a lunchtime talk on the evolution of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine to a group of visiting officers and diplomats hailing from various countries across the...
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Good News from Iran, Bad News from Iraq
I just heard a report that Secretary Gates will speak about this later today:A U.S. soldier in Baghdad opened fire on his fellow soldiers Monday, killing five American soldier...
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Fred on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Friends, I am staring down the barrel of another busy week. But by the end of today, I promise a post encouraging you all to buy my friend Nick Schmidle's excellent new book o...
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The Most Depressing Thing You'll Read Today
This is becoming a regular Sunday feature. From the Washington Post: BAGHDAD -- Under the glare of a Humvee's headlights, Brad Blauser broke a sweat assembling a pediatric wh...
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Navel Gazing...
Is it just me, or does the U.S. media get more infatuated with itself whenever the White House Correspondents' Dinner (a.k.a Nerdprom) rolls around? I mean, two of the op-ed c...