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Summer Kirkuk-Off
Dr. iRack took note of a good piece in the Christian Science Monitor on Kirkuk. The area has long been seen as a potential flashpoint for ethnic strife between Arabs, Kurds, a...
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New Kagan . . . Same as the Old Kagan
Fred Kagan has a new piece in the Weekly Standard mocking all those who don't know what success means in Iraq. Fred lays it out:Virtually everyone who wants to win this war ag...
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Winner of the U.S. Presidential Election Announced Early
The soon-to-be Mrs. Dr. iRack just saw this breaking news report. Apparently, the winner of the 2008 presidential election has been announced early. Dr. iRack will report back...
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Children Swimming in Chocolate Streams . . .
. . . in Basra? Dr. iRack has detected a new narrative coming out of the Iraqi Government (and MNF-I). The story goes something like this. "Once upon a time, a brave prime min...
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Pentagon Suspends Retired General IO Campaign
Dr. iRack steps out of the desert and into the beltway for a moment. For those of you tracking the retired-Generals-as-"message force multipliers" story, the NYT reports that,...
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To the Brink in Iraq
I hate to say I told you so . . . but I told you so. A few days ago, Dr. iRack dropped the news that MNF-I was likely to roll-out new evidence of Iranian support to elements o...
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Kilcullen on Political Maneuver in COIN
Back when this blog had about 50 readers a day, it was fun because Abu Muqawama could pretty much write whatever the hell he wanted. Now that about 3,000 people read it daily ...
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L’étendard sanglant est levé
The French are finally studying the lessons of Waterloo: It was a defining moment in British history – a triumph that brought the crowning of a national hero and the end of ...
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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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-...