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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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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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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...
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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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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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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...