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Yet another attempt by me to see the glass as half empty
The decision to double the size of the Afghan security forces seems, at first glance, like a good one. But one of the smartest defense analysts I know raised a concern a few w...
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RFI: Bacevich on Ricks
Can any of my pinko-communist readers out there access the London Review of Books? I want to read the Andrew Bacevich review of The Gamble. (Confession: I used to subscribe to...
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Victory!
Readers of this blog will have grown used to me running my mouth off about some policy or another. But it wasn't always so. The first time I ever opened my cakehole about some...
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Because this blog has an unhealthy relationship with books and war...
The New York Times Baghdad bureau has posted what it is reading these days. Note the photocopy of Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice. (What, the Times is ...
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Talking to Arabs, Big and Small
You'll remember that I echoed Philip Bennett's lament in Sunday's Post that so many of the narratives to have emerged from the Iraq War have left out the voices of Iraqis them...
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Sendero Luminoso de las Drogas
When revolution no longer worked for the FARC, they turned to drugs. When the Good Friday agreement was signed, the militant groups of Northern Ireland turned to crime as well...
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Can't argue with that, really.
My friend Issandr has the best suggestion for a motto for the Center for a New American Security:Because the old security sucked....
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John Nagl and Rachel Maddow: Together At Last
*/ Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Rachel Maddow says we would not have invaded Iraq if "the counterinsurgents" had been in charge. ...
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More Readings on Hizballah and Political Islam
Building off yesterday's extended thoughts on Hizballah, here are a few more quick readings on Hizballah and, more generally, Political Islam that have caught my eye over the ...
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Brimley and "the kafir behind jihadica.com"
Tom Ricks is trying to stir up trouble for his old friend Shawn Brimley, making him out to be some shadowy figure deep in the bowels of the Pentagon conspiring to eliminate th...
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The UK's Jihad - not so leaderless?
James Brandon of our* very own Quilliam Foundation has an article out in the Sentinel arguing that the self-starting terror attacks launched out of the UK weren't actually all...
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
March 17, 2009 - David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Pe...
By David Kilcullen
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Abu Muqawama Founder and Fellow Andrew Exum Discusses New CNAS Policy Paper on Afghanistan
In providing additional military forces for the Afghanistan war, the Obama administration has demonstrated that Afghanistan is no longer an economy-of-force campaign. But a tr...
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Extended Thoughts on Hizballah
Long-time readers of this blog will have noticed a bit of pessimism in my recent posts on Hizballah. Cynicism about Lebanese politics is nothing new for this blog, but even so...
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Is COIN history or political science?
Pete Mansoor and Con Crane discuss....
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They move quick around here... (updated)
John Nagl, Ahmed Humayun* and I have a paper out from the Center for a New American Security arguing for increased funding for Afghanistan's National Solidarity Program (NSP)....
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Two Wars? Or More?
So this is going to be a really interesting QDR.Thomas Donnelly, a defense policy expert with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he believed that the Obama a...
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Non-COIN Quote of the Day
From a Jewish friend of mine, currently in Iraq, on celebrating Purim in Baghdad:There's nothing like seeing an army officer with a 9mm and a Queen Esther mask....
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COIN Quote of the Day
I have been reading an advanced copy of James Arnold's new survey of counterinsurgency campaigns and came across this quotation from Thomas Bugeaud, the 19th Century French co...
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Reading the Sunday Washington Post
Several things in today's Post caught my eye this morning: 1. We should all applaud Phillip Bennett for his excellent observation that in all the books written on America's wa...