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Letter from al Anbar
Michael Totten may not be the most sophisticated journalist, and he may have some admittedly right-of-center political views which creep into his reporting. But you know what?...
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Power Blogs
Yesterday The Observer named the 50 Most Powerful Blogs on Earth. What a load of rubbish. They selected an eclectic mix rather than the actual 50 most powerful blogs. No Insta...
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Ackerman on Odierno
"Odierno’s evolution, with luck, mirrors that of the Army," said Erin Simpson, a counterinsurgency expert and professor at the Marine Command and Staff College at Quantico. "W...
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Arrogance and Complacency
Boeing, the heavy favorite to win the contract, having built earlier tankers, promised a new boom but did not build a prototype. One analyst who followed the contest said that...
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The Last Letter Home
What was Abu Muqawama just writing about sophisticated journalism? Because this is journalism of the highest quality. This article would have read like a punch to the gut even...
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Democracy or Musharraf?
With today's announcement that the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N will seek to reinstate the Pakistani Supreme Court and its Chief Justice Iftikhar Mu...
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Democratic Republic of Blogistan
No, those aren't the authors of the most amazing COIN blog in all the interwebs. But one of them is the Intrepid Spencer, and his blogging Flophouse is profiled in this week'...
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The Week That Was (3-9 March)
This week's highlights:Monday: At War No Longer Tuesday: That's right, a cocktail napkin Wednesday: Le Ratissage Thursday: Lunacy in Lebanon Friday: The Colonels and the Matri...
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Separated at Birth?
Lost in this recent slew of articles praising Gen. Odierno is a question that is simply dying to be answered: why is it that so many of our favorite counter-insurgents resembl...
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15-9!
Unbelievable....
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Lego Insurgents
[via Arabist] Abu Muqawama loved Legos so much as a kid that his mom still puts a few pieces in his Christmas stocking each year. (Actually, Abu Muqawama's job this Christmas ...
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And Charlie reads Nagl so you don't have to...
Everyone's favorite Army LTC, Herr Profesor John Nagl, has an op-ed in today's Washington Post. Actually, it's more like three op-eds (which Charlie tried to tell him...appar...
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COIN Book Club, No. 6 (Resurrecting the Book Club)
Back by popular demand, the long-awaited Book Club has returned. Wars are by their nature dialectical struggles in addition to being physical ones. Clashes of human interest ...
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COL Peter Mansoor Weighs in on Gentile and the Surge
Real quick: check out COL Peter Mansoor's response to LTC Gentile over at SWJ. More commentary here later in the weekend. Until then, check out Kip's comments on Gentile's ...
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Legacy = Torturer
President Bush vetoed Saturday legislation meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, saying it "would take away one of the most valu...
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Yes, they should demand to see him. And then they should demand the president fire him.
The US Congress is demanding the senior Nato commander in Afghanistan appear to explain the worsening situation in the country following a series of bleak warnings from the in...
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The Lebanon Narrative
How did the US Army originally come to a doctrine that disregarded our history of small wars? They came to it by looking to the 1973 Israeli Yom Kippur war where the Israelis...
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Buy the Best Tanker
It doesn't happen very often, but the New York Times has a defense-related staff editorial today with which Abu Muqawama heartily agrees (comments below):According to Air Forc...
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The (French) COIN Reading List
We here at Abu Muqawama are still somewhat over-the-moon after our huge shout-out from ace reporter Spencer Ackerman in the first part of his series on the counterinsurgency c...
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The Colonels and 'The Matrix'
Hot on Cullen's heels, the intrepid Spencer has an outstanding piece that chronicles a fight for the soul of the Army via two competing profiles of LTC Paul Yingling and LTC G...