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NATO's Counterinsurgency Doctrine
Doctrine, as Colin Gray once wrote, is the skeleton upon which the sinew and flesh of armies are built. Perhaps then, with no NATO doctrine for the conduct of a war among the...
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Quick Petraeus Follow-up
There's obviously loads of coverage on Day 2 of the Army's musical chairs campaign (see SWJ for the best round-up). But this bit from Tom Ricks and Ann Scott Tyson caught Cha...
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Chaos in Sadr City
Dr. iRack has been catching up on his "tabs." You see, when I notice an Iraq story I'm supposed to read, I open a new tab in Firefox. Currently I have over 70 tabs open on my ...
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Kaplan: Let's Talk to Iran
Dr. iRack here. Fred Kaplan over at Slate has a good piece making basically the same point I made Tuesday about the clear need to engage in an all-out diplomatic effort with I...
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Iraq's Arab Neighbors Won't Stand Up Until We Stand Down
For years, the United States has tried to get Iraq’s Sunni Arab neighbors to more actively support the Iraqi government. Yet no Sunni Arab country currently has an embassy in ...
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"Ohhh yes we did!"
Londonstani has been noticing that the understated - and wholly believable - malice al Qaeda used to infuse into its internet pronouncements has been on the wane as of late. T...
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Breaking: Petraeus to Centcom
General David Petraeus has been tapped to replace Admiral Fox Fallon at Centcom. But CNN buries the lead: the real story is that LTG Odierno is headed back to Iraq to replace ...
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Common Ground Between the U.S. and Iran Over Iraq?
Yesterday I took on Michael O'Hanlon for pushing for U.S.-Iran talks over Iraq, but expecting them to fail. I argued that there was more room for successful negotiations with ...
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A Few Good Women
The Marines have announced a new marketing campaign targeting women. Charlie can't decide which is more surprising: that they didn't do it before, or that they're doing it now...
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OMG! Blackwater Motivational Posters
Hot on their heels of their Blackwater logo contest (Charlie's a sucker for Hello Kitty...oh please, don't pretend like you're surprised), Danger Room has discovered Blackwate...
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"If you flatter him, you betray him."
Secretary Gates has been busy this week...busy reading this world-famous blog! (Clearly the source of all his best ideas.) After pistol whipping the Air Force (and assorte...
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No Chickenhawks in the Dutch DoD
In a story that Kip somehow missed this weekend, the son of the Dutch Chief of Defense--the senior military post in the country--was killed in action on Saturday by a Taliban-...
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The Problem with Culture (Ours)
Sec. Gates really slapped down the U.S. Air Force today: Although he praised the U.S. Air Force's contributions to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the defense chief made i...
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O'Hanlon Goes to Tehran in Search of Failure
This week or next there is likely to be a major Bush administration briefing laying out new evidence of "malign" Iranian involvement in Iraq. I suspect the briefing will be gi...
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COIN Book Club #8 : The Utility of Force
"War no longer exists. Confrontation, conflict and combat undoubtedly exist all around the world...Nonetheless, war as battle in a field between men and machinery, ar as a mas...
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Rice, Hash, and Afghanistan
There's been some interesting reporting the last couple days regarding rice shortages and food riots. Whether it be global warming, bad politics, or bad luck, these problems ...
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How Not to Dress Like an Army Colonel*
It was 80 degrees this weekend in our nation's capitol, which means that summer is soon upon us. Summer brings three things to Washington: oppressive heat, interns, and newl...
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England Expects ... you to look the other way
From today's New York Times: ON April 11, French commandos went in with guns blazing and captured a gang of pirates who days earlier had hijacked a luxury cruise ship, the Po...
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Winners and Losers
From today's Washington Post: Less than two years after it was fought, the Second Lebanon War is regarded by many Israelis as an embarrassment for a country that has long ta...
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Is this is a smart IO campaign or way out of bounds? You make the call.
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by...