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What we knew and when we knew it
The New York Times has a nice peek into the "planning" that preceded that goat rodeo in Basra last week.Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker first learned of the Iraqi plan on Friday, M...
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“When it comes down to it, we really don’t pay a great deal of attention to the Dutch anymore.”
So says Maj. R. J. Martopawiro of the Surinamese Army. Abu Muqawama pays attention to the Dutch Army, though, because a) they're fighting hard in Afghanistan and b) the politi...
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This wouldn't be a problem if more Crimson Tide fans lived in Fayetteville
Okay, this is hilarious. (How is this related to COIN? Not by a lot, except you could probably draw a few lessons from this regarding population control.) You see, prison jump...
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Life After the Surge: Prospects for Iraq and for the U.S. Military
This CNAS Congressional Testimony contains Michèle A. Flournoy's statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, given on April 2, 2008. According to Flournoy, "The only ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Trust us, Abu Muqawama will always find a way to blame every problem on the U.S. Air Force
Abu Muqawama finally got around to reading Bob Worth's article in today's New York Times on Mudher al-Kharbit. In a sense, his predicament can be traced to the night of Apri...
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Korski on NATO
Daniel Korski (who has a pretty impressive resume for someone as young as he is and wrote this recent report on Europe in Afghanistan [.pdf]) has an article in the Guardian.co...
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Nagl Makes His Case in the New York Times
All we're saying is that if the U.S. Air Force and its military-industrial complex proxies can wine and dine crooked congressmen with booze and hookers and goodness knows what...
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USAF: And by "fly" we mean use this joystick...
From Danger Room: How bad do they need drones in Iraq and Afghanistan? So bad, the Air Force is yanking pilots out of old-school planes, and sticking them on drone duty, inste...
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Arab (dis)Unity
Iam Black, who has covered the Middle East for The Guardian for quite some time and almost as well as his predecessor David Hirst, has a nice piece up on Comment Is Free on Ar...
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Live-blogging Rhod-- er, sorry, Zimbabwe
Also on the Guardian website is a blog covering the very latest on the elections in Zimbabwe. What does this have to do with counter-insurgency? Well, if anything, the struggl...
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Malcolm Nance on Basra
What is a day at Abu Muqawama without at least passing reference to the mess in Basra? Malcolm Nance provides today's analysis via the indispensable Small Wars Journal. Malcol...
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Cell phones and Mass
Kip became a member of the AM blogging team entirely on false pretenses, I now realize. In the beginning, this Iraq/Afghan veteran came to AM and Charlie and said he would be ...
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March Reader Figures
March was a banner month for Abu Muqawama: Charlie, Kip and Abu Muqawama posted 162 times (a record) and were viewed 79,574 times (also, a record) with 54,117 unique viewers (...
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(Re-) Capturing Mullah Naqibullah
Reports are that Mullah Naqibullah has been captured in Helmand Province. The senior Taliban leader has played the catch-and-release program well, using corruption within the ...
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The Reports of His Death...
were greatly exaggerated. Apparently Jalaluddin Haqqani, Mujahideen leader, darling of Charlie Wilson and the CIA, and current insurgency leader, is still alive (or at least ...
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McCain on National Service
Say what you want about Sen. John McCain's policies, but speeches like this give Charlie serious goose bumps.“Like most people, when I reflect on the adventures and joys of yo...
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1776 and all that...
Andrew Exum received permission from the gang at Abu Muqawama to re-visit some of the debate we had vis-a-vis British COIN in the Colonies in Abu Muqawama's favorite British n...
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Iraq: Still an Insurgency?
Here's a question for the class: is the Iraq War still a counter-insurgency? Not too long ago, a very smart friend of this blog with years of experience in Iraq since 2003 wro...
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Never Leave a Fallen Comrade
The Department of Defense confirmed today that SGT Keith Maupin's remains have been identified in Iraq. It is a sad conclusion to a terrible saga for his family. Three other...
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Educating Interpreters
In war among the people, the ability to communicate is perhaps the most important skill. Yet the US military remains woefully unable to speak the languages of the areas in wh...