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Brilliant Orange
Get some! It would have cooler had they sunk the mother ship. Or at least told France where they could sink it. Those French, man, hate themselves some pirates. MOGADISHU, So...
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Jack Keane at the Hoover Institution
Okay, now that you have that crazy Turkish song about Obama in your head, watch and listen to this five-part interview with Big Jack Keane on NationalReviewTV. Keane looks lik...
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This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency. Or war. But I can't not post this.
This video will blow your mind. Wonkette:It’s sort of like if the Scissor Sisters met Omar Sharif and directed an intergalactic cruise together, with a backup singer wearing c...
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Rory Stewart on Heroes
My friend Ahmed found this in a book review from 2005:Outside the pages of historical romance, it seems the old heroes are dead. We don't permit them to exist. We tend to agre...
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Why we're losing in Afghanistan, Reason #374
Check out the media embed information from CJTF 101. Download the "RC East Questionnaire." It's pretty standard stuff -- "Are you allergic to any medications?" -- until the en...
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CTC Sentinel
The new edition of the CTC Sentinel (.pdf) is now online, and as I plug that publication I should also note that a) there is a really good article on al-Qaeda in the Arabian P...
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Good News Friday
Two great "good news" stories, both of which nonetheless raise potentially disturbing questions. The first is this account of an infantry ambush in the Korengal Valley. In a ...
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How to beat the pirates?
Ninja Fred has ideas....
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Baghdad
Not too long ago, I bristled when Andrew Bacevich carelessly observed that "The Long War has been good to Dr. [David] Kilcullen." Good in what sense, I wanted to ask? Professi...
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Recovered from the Pentagon's Emails
To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: Thanks!http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21293.html Those Navy snipers off the coast of Somalia might have done ...
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On What the Neoconservatives Got Right
Matt Duss responds to my post from yesterday:By offering democratic reform as a component to the war on terror, which many in the Muslim world see – rightly or wrongly — as a ...
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"It's %$#@ like this that's going to bring this situation to a head, man."
This is the kind of stuff that is going to lose us the war in Afghanistan in the next year:Western forces in Afghanistan acknowledged on Thursday they had killed six civilians...
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Horowitz and Shalmon in Orbis
Looking back, it was a serious mistake of me to have been talking about the budget without simultaneously talking about the article written by my friend Mike Horowitz and Dan ...
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Pirates ... and Lebanon!
God bless Sean Lee, who has figured out a way to allow me to talk about pirates and Lebanon. If anyone figures out a way to bring military innovation theory into this conversa...
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DADT and the Age Gap
The retired flag officers who wrote the op-ed in today's Washington Post arguing that homosexuals should not be allowed to serve in the military were born in 1934, 1936, 1935,...
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What the Neoconservatives Got Right
I met up with an old commander of mine last night for a beer, and while I was waiting at the bar, I got caught up on some of the reading I had missed over the weekend. Include...
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Special Abu Muqawama Interview: Anastasia Moloney
I was really impressed with Anastasia Moloney's piece in the World Politics Review on Colombia's endgame with the FARC. The readership was as well and came up with some good q...
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More on Piracy
Here I am, with Bob Kaplan, King of Historical Analogies, on the Charlie Rose Show last night talking about piracy. My friend Noah Schachtman, meanwhile, has come up with a li...
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Thoughts on Piracy...
...from a long-time friend of the blog.Resistance Daddy, First, on Saturday, I thought firing three shots from a rolling platform and getting three kills on another rolling pl...
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Drugs and Hizballah in Lebanon
You want to know the full story on yesterday's violence in the Bekaa? And the drug trade in Lebanon? And how Hizballah ties into it? I have been holding my tongue here on the ...