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Thug Life: Verbal Gymnastics, Part Deux
Yesterday, Dr. iRack gave you his thoughts on the on the ever-changing labels used to describe the Shia militants U.S. forces are fighting in Sadr City. But Dr. iRack just not...
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Abu Muqawama Couldn't Be Bothered To Come Up With A Clever Title Involving The Word "Fiasco"
How did it escape Abu Muqawama that one of his very favorite military affairs journalists, Tom Ricks, was leaving the Washington Post? (Good luck filling those shoes, jackasse...
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Ibn Khaldun and Political Islam
Abu Muqawama has a request for his readership. While we're proud of our famous counterinsurgency reading list, Abu Muqawama is unhappy with the Political Islam section. He's l...
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Iran and AQI
In a recent interview, a Kuwaiti Sunni fundamentalist named Mubarak Al-Bathali claims that Iran is supporting Sunni insurgents in Iraq. The charges appear signficiant for two...
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Happy V-E Day!
Charlie is a sucker for wartime photography...if you are, too, be sure to check out Slate's Magnum Photo archive of the German surrender in 1945 (and several subsequent commem...
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Anti-COIN
Abu Muqawama is finally back in East London after two weeks of travel. Because his violent Pashtun flatmate, Londonstani, is currently sneaking across the border of an unnamed...
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8 May 2008
Is this the day the (new) Lebanese Civil War started? And, more importantly, the day Abu Muqawama's plans to move back to Beirut this summer were wrecked? Abu Muqawama can't f...
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Typhoon in Burma
By now most of our esteemed readers will have read about the horrific typhoon in Burma, leaving more than 20,000 dead:A powerful cyclone that destroyed a vast swath of coastal...
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Awakening to New Dangers
With all the focus on intra-Shia conflict over the past month, Dr. iRack wanted to draw readers' attention for a moment back to a silent storm brewing: the fate of the "Sons o...
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"The Godfather" Doctrine
For all you film-world-meets-international-relations geeks, there is an interesting article by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell in the Los Angeles Times on the "Godfather ...
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Gitmo Blowback?
According to a story in today's Washington Post: A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cu...
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We'll See Your Cancellation of Talks and Raise You One
The other day, Dr. iRack noted that Iran had pushed aside the prospect of talks with the United States to discuss the security situation in Iraq until the offensive in Sadr Ci...
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The Counterinsurgency Debate on NPR
NPR ran an excellent and fair report on the ongoing debate about COIN and conventional preparedness on Morning Edition this morning. John Nagl is called the disciple of COIN's...
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Flagless Advisors
Working within the advisor command in Afghanistan was both one of the most rewarding and troubling experiences of Kip's life. Because no one is really taking responsibility f...
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Who Stopped the Talks?
Dr. iRack took note of some big news today: the Iranians have decided to halt talks with the United States over the security situation in Iraq until American forces stop their...
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O'Sullivan and Rose
[via SWJ] Meghan O'Sullivan on Charlie Rose....
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Green Zone Disney! Seriously!
More in the category of "you can't make this sh*t up" from the AP:BAGHDAD - Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxu...
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Lee Greenwood...really? REALLY?
Charlie had the good fortune of attending the DC Special Forces Association dinner this weekend (appropriately dressed in green, of course). First, let her say, that if you ev...
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Iran to Gordon to Present the Evidence
For a while now, Dr. iRack has been expecting MNF-I to provide a briefing describing Iranian lethal assisance to elements of JAM (frequently described as "special groups"). Th...
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McMiTTs
Dr. iRack took note of a new Walter Pincus piece in the Washington Post. Apparently, U.S. commanders in Iraq are for the first time seeking private contractors to form part ...