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COIN in Oakland?
I just read in the newspaper that a fourth Oakland police officer has died after being taken off of life support. A reader from California wrote in a few days back to ask whet...
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Contesting extremism - UK style
The British government today published its new strategy for counter terrorism, which is being referred to as Contest Two. This is possibly the most eagerly awaited government ...
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Rid on Deterrence and Political Violence
You guys missed a great presentation by Thomas Rid at SAIS on deterrence and political violence. It should have been open to the public......
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Attention, DC Residents
What a fantastically, hilariously bad idea this is. Imagine a family visiting from North Dakota and crossing the Key Bridge on the morning of 25 March. And straight ahead, kid...
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New Afghanistan Report
In advance of a report from the Council on Foreign Relations -- not to mention the report from the White House -- the Center for American Progress is weighing in with their ne...
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Virtual War on Hizballah
The most significant thing about this story -- and this technology -- is the way in which ordinary Israelis can now carry out DOS attacks on a declared enemy of the state. If ...
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You can lead the indigenous political leadership to water ...
I am a big believer in the theory that even the most sophisticated and well-executed COIN campaign cannot, when executed by a third party (such as the United States in Iraq or...
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And another reading list..
As we are much into reading lists on this site, Londonstani thought he'd contribute a list of what the other side recommends you read. In his March 14 statement, Osama Bin Lad...
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Unrelated Lebanon News
The PLO's #2 in Lebanon was killed in a bomb blast this morning in Mieh Mieh. Not good. And completely unrelated to that, momentum is gathering in both Washington and Bogota t...
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Gates Against "The Complex"
The Boston Globe has a staff editorial this morning in support of Sec. Robert Gates and his heroic (in their eyes) struggle against the military-industrial complex. Most impo...
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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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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...