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Abu Muqawama Demands The Minotaur Memos!
The Onion calls bulls**t on the cable news torture debate as only The Onion can. Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?...
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Population-Centric Cowterinsurgency
I subscribe to few magazines, but aside from Soldier of Fortune and the New York Review of Books, the Atlantic is one of them. In this issue, I chuckled my way through a hand-...
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See if you can find the hackneyed sports cliche in this post
Josh Foust -- who, as Spencer Ackerman memorably put it, "never misses an opportunity to critique a side he agrees with" -- has stepped up to the plate and begun an effort to ...
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Abu Muqawama About 30 Seconds Away From Unfurling A Giant Red Flag And Singing The Internationale
Oh. My. Goodness. Boy, we sure picked the guy to restore working- and middle-class faith in capitalism, alright....
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August CTC Sentinel Published
I just printed the whole thing off to read on the Metro (.pdf). All kinds of good stuff, as usual, and with more geographic diversity than this blog has sported of late....
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PakGov: Admin Costs Consume 50-55% of U.S. Aid
What are we to do with this? Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan’s finance minister, has urged the US to channel its assistance through Pakistani agencies instead to save on high intermed...
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An Alternative to Population-Centric COIN?
One author in the Indian Defense Review has drawn lessons from Sri Lanka's campaign against the LTTE. They are a far cry from FM 3-24. But are they better? Or even an alternat...
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Working with, around, through and against GIRoA
I've been going on and on about the Afghan government of late, and though you folks know I care little for our counter-narcotics efforts, drugs do matter when they have an eff...
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Reading Old Magazines: Rare Earth Elements and Security
For this week’s Reading Old Magazines I decided to focus on minerals, given the news pieces yesterday on rare earth materials. I chose one with a great title from the journal ...
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The "Is Counterinsurgency Stifling the Debate?" Debate: Day Two
From a reader: Given the sheer mass of articles in my google reader, both sides of the debate are certainly talking at each other enough to make any accusation of "stifling" s...
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Do As We’re Doing…At Home, Too
Environmental journalist and author Michael Grunwald, writing in Foreign Policy’s special report Oil: the Long Goodbye, takes on the “Seven Myths About Alternative Energy.” Gr...
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Oracular Spectacular
This news hit yesterday, but it should be noted that yesterday's massive bombing in Kandahar is in line with the Quetta Shura Taliban's modus operandi in that -- like the pris...
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Abu Muqawama [Hearts] Blue-Collar Bars in Boston and Every Other City
“The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.” -- Leon Wieseltier in today's New...
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And now for something completely different...
Jerry Warner and Pete "Robots Boy" Singer on defense energy strategy (.pdf). The U.S. Department of Defense is the world’s single largest consumer of energy, using more energy...
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Widening the Aperture
Eli Lake was right to profile Derek Harvey, the widely respected intelligence officer now starting a center in U.S. Central Command for the study of Afghanistan and Pakistan. ...
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On Taking Sides ... and Glass Houses
Rep. Peter King wonders whose side Eric Holder is on with respect to the investigation into alleged torture conducted by our intelligence agencies. That's all fine and good, a...
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COMISAF COIN Guidance Released
The counterinsurgency guidance issued by Gen. Stan McChrystal to his units in the field has been finalized and released -- and it's very good. I would say it incorporates most...
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The "Is Counterinsurgency Stifling the Debate?" Debate: Day One, Part III
From a political science professor (and avid blog reader): No. No. And No. Or at least no more than having a policy inevitably means official Washington will back that policy ...
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CNAS Next Generation National Security Leaders
CNAS has selected the 2009 class of Next Generation National Security Leaders. There were 450 (!) applicants for 24 slots, so apologies go out to the many fine candidates who ...
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In Defense of Scotland: NSFW
I saw two movies this weekend, actually: Inglourious Basterds and In The Loop. The latter is really funny political satire that will hit home for many of this blog's readers, ...