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And now, your Sunday reading...
1. Pentagon's Unwanted Projects in Earmarks (Washington Post)Guess who is funding the infernal F-22 over the objections of the Pentagon's senior leadership? The evil Republica...
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Breaking News: The Real IRA Are Still a Bunch of %$#@ing Idiots
There was some good news, though, to come out of Northern Ireland today: Speaking earlier today before the claim of responsibility, the Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, called ...
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Kilcullen on Bacevich on Kilcullen
Dave is ... not happy:I was a little nonplussed by Andrew Bacevich’s review of my recent book, The Accidental Guerrilla (Oxford University Press, 2009). Mr Bacevich is a highl...
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How about we use poppy production? Oh, wait...
Obviously, I have already read the damning 318-page report on the intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iraq released by RAND (.pdf) and authored by Russ Glenn and Jamie ...
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Tennessee = Lebanon
I returned to Tennessee from Lebanon at the beginning of December and thought I was ... back in Lebanon. My congressman, Zach Wamp (McCallie '76), had plastered pictures of hi...
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Definitions
Here's a fun new project for the readership, building off some rather good comments in this morning's post. Please offer your best definitions for the following terms: Doctrin...
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The Getaway
Pakistani television has now aired CCT footage of the Lahore gunmen escaping from the clutches of the Pakistani police. (h/t The Lede) The Pakistani police doesn't exactly se...
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Afternoon Reading
1. Are terrorists stupid? (Timothy Noah, Slate) 2. Tom Friedman: Not exactly Nostradamus (Barrett Brown, Vanity Fair) 3. Thoughts on Hybrid Warfare (Russell Glenn, Small Wars ...
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My Correct Views on Everything (with apologies to Leszek Kolakowski)
A few days ago, I blogged on Andrew Bacevich's review of David Kilcullen's new book, writing, "No one who really understands COIN wants to do it." What I meant by that was tha...
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But where are the people?
Doug Ollivant once had this bright idea (.pdf) that in order to win in Iraq, U.S. troops had to abandon their big, Burger King-supported forward operating bases and get out th...
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Abu Muqawama Contest (Updated)
Many thanks to the readership for the great responses to yesterday's RFI. Here's another brain-teaser. I inherited the office at CNAS that last housed Shawn Brimley and Vikram...
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A game to die for?
Everyone who reads this blog knows that Londonstani is a big cricket fan. Long-time readers will be aware that he is hoping for life time membership of the MCC for his efforts...
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Oh Snap, Afghan Elections in May?
Londonstani beat me to Nick Schmidle's Zadari profile. But in other wily-South-Asian-presidents news, Hamid Karzai has just called the collective bluff of his domestic opposi...
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NSFW: When the Advisory Mission Goes Wrong. Or Right.
Iraqis meet an American E-7. Lest anyone accuse this American of talking down to the Iraqis, in all fairness this is pretty much how he would speak to a bunch of American priv...
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COIN equality - policing middle England
Who says counter insurgency is only applied in places like Afghanistan and Iraq? According to several newspaper reports over the last couple of weeks, British police are worki...
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RFI: Afghanistan
A close friend of the blog is putting together a course for tactical intelligence officers going to Afghanistan and needs the help of this blog's erudite and experienced reade...
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Bacevich on Kilcullen
One of the things I have always maintained is that realists of the Andrew Bacevich school and counter-insurgents of the David Kilcullen school have more in common than they re...
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Dear U.S. Army: Please stop threatening to kill your anthropologists
I came across this bizarre website accusing me of not being outspoken enough in defense of anthropologists who are threatened by the U.S. soldiers with whom they serve. I was ...
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Barno on Afghanistan; Exum still in his pajamas
Oh, this is ridiculous. My first day of work and it looks like a damn snow globe outside. Federal employees are supposed to arrive to work two hours late today, so taking my c...
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Lest anyone confuse KU-Mizzou with a basketball game
(That, of course, is John Brown. Holding a rifle and the National Championship trophy. I am unaware at this time if the original painting, in the Kansas state capitol, was s...