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COIN as Doctrine and Strategy
I just noticed this post written by Eric Martin criticizing the COIN community -- and me especially -- for promulgating COIN doctrine and then ducking responsibility when poli...
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God and War
An article in Maariv is claiming Israeli soldiers went into Gaza encouraged by IDF rabbis to think of their mission as a holy one."The military rabbinate brought many magazine...
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Attention, readers
After the first round of games, Abu Muqawama is tied for fifth (out of sixteen) in the CNAS office pool. I will provide constant updates on this pressing matter of national se...
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Six Years
I was still recovering from a broken tibia at Hunter Army Airfield at the time....
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Afghanistan and the Future of NATO on the Battlefield
I had a conversation with a visiting policy-maker from a NATO country yesterday in which he asked me what I thought Afghanistan held for the future of NATO. After repeating "t...
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Brian Burton (and some other guy) on COIN wars
Brian Burton (and his co-author) is just stone cold settlin' some scores (.pdf) in the latest edition of the Washington Quarterly.Despite the clear need for change from a Cold...
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In case you missed me on the Diane Rehm Show today...
...the audio is here. I had a fun discussion with Thom Shanker, Robert Work and Robert Haddick of Small Wars Journal....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...