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Abu Muqawama (Magnum) Updated
So we've been tweaking the blog design all day. It's better, no? What's still missing? Let us know in the comments....
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The Cold War vs. The New Order
For those who missed it, the Politico had an interesting and lengthy feature today on defense policy debates. (And John Nagl answered questions from the Politico's readership ...
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Arguing Lebanon
Rob Satloff made a claim on Hahvahd's Middle East Strategy blog that Vice President Biden's one-day visit to Beirut was decisive in swinging the election to March 14th. Really...
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Sarah Palin Meets Abu Muqawama
D.J. Skelton, John Nagl and I were walking back into the office when I saw a woman who looked a lot like Sarah Palin standing outside the Starbucks at 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue...
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Abu Muqawama (Magnum)
A quick word to the readers: The gang of internet elves working on this website has been really responsive to requests and is working hard to immediately fix both the comments...
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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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Inside the Surge
I just got my hands on a hard copy of this first-person account, written by my friend Jim Crider, of a year in the life of a battalion commander during the Surge of 2007. I'll...
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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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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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Qifa Nabki on the Elections
Elias/Qifa is required reading today (and tomorrow, I suspect)....
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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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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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The Jihadi Reaction to Obama's Speech
Q: How awesome is Thomas Hegghammer? A: Very. This is a fascinating post....
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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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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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Concepts, We Are Developing
General Mattis has a vision....
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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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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...