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Where is Steve Zissou When You Need Him?
Talks between U.S. officials and the pirates have broken down. A friend of mine has been asking whether or not we can send in the Navy SEAL Negotiating Team just yet. "I've ne...
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Next Generation Warfare and the Budget
David Cloud has a piece up on Politico on the way in which Sec. Gates is using the budget to prepare the military for what he sees as the conflicts of the future. The chances...
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War Games!
This is really funny. Until the end. When it's pretty sad....
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(A) Good Friday (Afternoon)
Man! Nagl's kid just snuck up on me here in my office. I'm really losing my edge if the sons of armor officers are catching me off-guard. That said, my excuse was that I was w...
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Arguing the Surge
I'm not sure I understand (Abu Muqawama reader) Michael Massing's review of The Gamble. Massing spends three pages taking Tom Ricks to task for writing a book about the surge ...
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Sexual Repression at the Heritage Foundation?
I had dinner with an old English Literature professor of mine last night (along with his English Literature professor wife), and while I'm not trying to get all Michel Foucaul...
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How to Worry About the Budget in Ten Easy Steps
Tom Donnelly, after chastising me for not keeping close enough tabs on "the international neo-conservative conspiracy," answered my call and pointed me to this piece in the We...
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Pirates vs. NinjasU.S. Navy
This is crazy. The New York Times is reporting that the U.S. Navy and the pirates are sending more ships to the standoff. The Guardian, meanwhile, has a helpful scorecard comp...
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On the original unconventional warfare...
I don't know why I bother reading Charles Krauthammer's columns on issues relating to international security. They are always filled with ridiculous lines such as:Having thus ...
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"Noo-ku-lar Combat, toe-to-toe with the Rooskies!"
It's YouTube Day here at Abu Muqawama. And if you're going to watch the Heritage Foundation's "scary" new video about missile defense, it's only appropriate to watch it as a d...
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A Hawk Responds
As many of you know, we here at the blog have a policy whereby when someone is criticized by name, they have the right to post a response. It's one of the ways we keep ourselv...
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+/-?
So is this defense budget a cut or an increase? I have been calling it a "cut" because I have been including the two FY2008 supplemental budgets in with the FY2008 budget. And...
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The "Worrisome" Veteran
Way to go, Penn State. Way to insult all us "crazy" "aggressive" veterans with this "instructional" video. (Thanks, SNLII) Of course, Penn State has a long history of this. I...
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National Security Human Capital
CBS Evening News: Suicide Rampant In ArmyLast year, there were 143 known or suspected suicides in the army, an all-time high. This year the numbers are even worse. David Martin reports....
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At this moment, we can neither confirm nor deny that Steven Seagal played a role
NAIROBI, April 8 -- The crew of a U.S.-operated container ship that was commandeered by Somali pirates regained control of the vessel Wednesday and seized one of the attackers...
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Abu Muqawama Employs the Strategic Reserve
Michael Cohen is pursuing a Taliban-esque strategy of exhaustion against me both in terms of his articles on Democracy Arsenal and his ridiculously prodigious emailing, which ...
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Wednesday Budget Opinionating
Well, it's a good thing this blog doesn't delve into the murky waters of Israel and Palestine. Otherwise, I might have to expend time and energy responding to this. Instead, I...
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Calling all SEAL teams...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship with 20 American crew members onboard, hundreds of miles from the nearest U.S. military vessel...
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Bob Gates vs. the Congress: Who You Gonna Pick?
I am now back from Quantico, and contrary to rumors voiced to Dave Dilegge, no, I was not contemplating an inter-service transfer. Let's face it: the Army was happy enough to ...
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Budget Roundup ... and Ficked Again
I will be away from my computer most of the day, back in the wilds of Virginia hanging out with Dave Dilegge and trying to understand Marines. In the meantime, here is a round...