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We now need a metric to measure how successful we are at spreading our metrics
This bit about measuring success will anger Michael Cohen, but the staff editorial in today's New York Times displays a sophisticated understanding of counterinsurgency warfar...
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Well, well, well... Lebanon's Elections: Winners and Losers
So forget any and all predictions I make on this blog. Nothing is yet official, but it looks as if the March 14th coalition will win the elections in Lebanon -- by perhaps a w...
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Qifa Nabki on the Elections
Elias/Qifa is required reading today (and tomorrow, I suspect)....
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Shock! Good News from Pakistan! The Taliban's Strategic Communications Reek Almost As Badly As Ours!
Londonstani is off doing his undercover journalism thing and can't blog at the moment but sent this story along, saying it was one of the more insightful articles he had read ...
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Blanford on the Elections
It's election day in Lebanon. Nick Blanford explains here via Justin McMahan's blog, but if you're asking me for predictions, my guess is there will be a very small victory fo...
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I'm not sure I buy this...
I'm willing to concede that Robert Kagan knows more about the history of U.S. foreign policy than I do, but does his somewhat counterfactual op-ed in today's Post make sense t...
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All those hours spent arguing with Fick and Kristin over line edits were worth it
The Washington Post: It was no accident that former vice president Dick Cheney chose the American Enterprise Institute as the venue for his full-throated defense last month of...
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le 6 Juin 1944
First off, I apologize for not yet posting anything today. I spent the morning running the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure with some guys from my rugby team. We raised $430, ...
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Triage: The Next 12 Months in Afghanistan and Pakistan
I was hoping to roll out the new CNAS report on Afghanistan and Pakistan with the new and improved Abu Muqawama. Alas ... the new and improved Abu Muqawama is still dealing wi...
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The Speech
Okay, it was a really good speech. I finally listened to it -- I had read it on paper yesterday morning -- and he nailed it. I mean, he botched a lot of the Arabic words (hija...
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Concepts, We Are Developing
General Mattis has a vision....
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The Jihadi Reaction to the Obama Spech
Thomas Hegghammer, being his usual awesome self, monitors the reaction to Obama's speech in Cairo among the takfiri crowd. Fascinating. ...
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The Jihadi Reaction to Obama's Speech
Q: How awesome is Thomas Hegghammer? A: Very. This is a fascinating post....
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Drones
I love it when readers contact me with "You've probably already seen this, but..." No, no, the odds are I have not already seen it. I really appreciate the tips from the reade...
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Does anyone else get the sense...
...that Obama's big speech in Cairo today is a bigger deal in the Western world than it is in the Arabic-speaking and Islamic worlds? The speech is only the #2 story on al-Jaz...
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The Lebanese Armed Forces: The Case for Continuing Aid -- Come Hizballah or High Water
I have said before that -- now that I am no longer based in Beirut -- this blog is probably not the go-to place for in-depth commentary on the Lebanese elections. But in the n...
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And take your Jomini with you! (Updated)
Michael Cohen asks: Over at abu muqawama, Andrew Exum makes an audacious claim about the proper metric for success in Afghanistan. In responding to a WSJ article about the m...
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Rid, Exum and War 2.0
Those of you who do not live in the DC area or could not attend yesterday's event can listen to Thomas Rid and me discuss his important new book here. (Pardon the scratchy aud...
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Dave Kilcullen on Aussie TV
Talkin' sense. Read the transcript and watch the video here.In Afghanistan, we have a lot of support from the local population and we have, you know, a very large level of int...
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Charity Opportunities
Gang, Allow me to take a break for one moment from all my counterinsurgenting to highlight two worthy causes to which I am tied. The first is that I will be going for an early...