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ANZAC Day
What am I doing up before five on a Saturday? Going to the ANZAC Day service at the Korean War Memorial to honor America's most loyal ally. (They even fought in Vietnam, for g...
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Book Discussion: The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa
From the lessons they learned during multiple tours in Iraq these two veterans wrote, The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa, a concise guide for the conduct of counterinsurgency opera...
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Like Father, Like Son?
Man, oh man. Just look at Mutassim Qaddafi with Secretary Clinton. How. Awesome. Is. This. Suit? (Answer: very.) Does the Qaddafi Family have the greatest fashion sense in wor...
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New Media and War
For those who are interested and in the Washington, DC area, I will be speaking -- along with Bill Roggio and the folks from Small Wars Journal -- at three o'clock tomorrow at...
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American woman! Stay away from me!
Hahahaha. What, our womenfolk are too tough for you Pashtun men to handle? Yeah, but seriously, I can sympathize. Armed "western white women" can certainly be a little vicious...
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We don't %$#@ing do it.
I'm sorry I have been away for the past week, facilitating a war game for your beloved corps. One of the research assistants here at CNAS informed me that I had missed a whole...
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Better late than never...
Interesting idea:The Pentagon’s senior military leaders are worried that the security situation in Afghanistan is stalemated or deteriorating, and now are preparing a far-reac...
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Scrap the Air Force?
Not even on my worst days do I go as far as this guy: At the moment, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps are at war, but the Air Force is not. This is not the fault of the Air Fo...
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Okay, this is great reporting.
From today's New York Times. Many of you already spotted this. Man, is it incredible....
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Good Great News on Sunday
The Washington Post: The Army last month stopped accepting felons and recent drug abusers into its ranks as the nation's economic downturn helped its recruiting, allowing it ...
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Close the War Colleges? (Updated)
Boy, Tom sure isn't afraid to make people angry: Want to trim the federal budget and improve the military at the same time? Shut down West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force...
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Are we really going to have to put up with this for a year?
The world's most pompous musician makes his debut for the Times. If this isn't his debut -- and if he has written something already -- don't tell me....
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Brilliant Orange
Get some! It would have cooler had they sunk the mother ship. Or at least told France where they could sink it. Those French, man, hate themselves some pirates. MOGADISHU, So...
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Jack Keane at the Hoover Institution
Okay, now that you have that crazy Turkish song about Obama in your head, watch and listen to this five-part interview with Big Jack Keane on NationalReviewTV. Keane looks lik...
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This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency. Or war. But I can't not post this.
This video will blow your mind. Wonkette:It’s sort of like if the Scissor Sisters met Omar Sharif and directed an intergalactic cruise together, with a backup singer wearing c...
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Rory Stewart on Heroes
My friend Ahmed found this in a book review from 2005:Outside the pages of historical romance, it seems the old heroes are dead. We don't permit them to exist. We tend to agre...
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Why we're losing in Afghanistan, Reason #374
Check out the media embed information from CJTF 101. Download the "RC East Questionnaire." It's pretty standard stuff -- "Are you allergic to any medications?" -- until the en...
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CTC Sentinel
The new edition of the CTC Sentinel (.pdf) is now online, and as I plug that publication I should also note that a) there is a really good article on al-Qaeda in the Arabian P...
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Good News Friday
Two great "good news" stories, both of which nonetheless raise potentially disturbing questions. The first is this account of an infantry ambush in the Korengal Valley. In a ...
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"It's %$#@ like this that's going to bring this situation to a head, man."
This is the kind of stuff that is going to lose us the war in Afghanistan in the next year:Western forces in Afghanistan acknowledged on Thursday they had killed six civilians...