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I expect to get hit with a cyanide-tipped umbrella anyday now...
Dave and I now have the head of the CIA angry with us: LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- U.S. airstrikes aimed at al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan have been "very effective," wit...
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Innes on Kilcullen
My friend and occasional intellectual sparring partner, Mike Innes, weighs in on David Kilcullen's The Accidental Guerrilla in an extended review....
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How World-Class Journalism Happens
You guys know how much I hate it when journalists become the story, but here I make an exception. This account of how C.J. Chivers and his "shooter", Tyler Hicks, got the stor...
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Mullen on Drones
Pete Singer sent me a link to the Admiral Mullen's speech at Brookings, and I notice the quote I excerpted in yesterday's post was actually part of a larger quote relating to ...
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Schmidle on Sharif
I will be at a CNAS "off-site" meeting this afternoon, so you crazy kids are on your own. While wasting time this afternoon, though, check out Nick Schmidle on Nawaz Sharif in...
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Exclusive: JSOC Killed Benazir Bhutto! Uh...
Seymour Hersh, who has publicly distanced himself from the wack-job conspiracy theory -- promulgated by al-Manar and NewTV in Lebanon -- that the United States was behind the ...
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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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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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Rumsfeld's Peers on Rumsfeld
You guys have all read this Robert Draper piece on Rumsfeld, right? Just checking....
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Guerrilla Warfare! With Gorrilas?
Ha! This quote made my day, even if I have no idea what Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) is talking about here:I’m going to be the sneaky little guy that pops up from behind the bush an...
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Yes.
From the Brookings Institute today:“We cannot succeed in Afghanistan or anywhere else, but let’s talk specifically about Afghanistan, by killing Afghan civilians,” Admiral Mul...
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Reidel on the Rooskies, the Afghans and Us
What a coup for West Point's CTC Sentinel (.pdf) in getting Bruce Reidel -- the guy President Obama put in charge of reviewing his "Af-Pak" strategy -- to write a piece on the...
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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 ...