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Arabic Media Shack
Abu Muqawama has been meaning to plug this new blog, Arabic Media Shack, for a while now. The author comments on events in the Middle East, but what's really useful are the En...
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Below the Belt?
Here's a question: Do you guys think Phil Carter hit below the belt on this one? Abu Muqawama does not. He thinks this is a fair point, and one he's glad a veteran made. But a...
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Highlanders on the Roof of the World
The Guardian has a nice interactive feature on soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders preparing for a deployment to Afghanistan. Abu Muqawama and his dad once vis...
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Tom Ricks Can't Help Talkin' Smack
It's not even subtle anymore. Tom Ricks is now calling us Small Wars Journal's "rogue cousin." Let's get something straight, Ricks: We here at Abu Muqawama are no blog's rogue...
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Technological Fetishism
Strategic culture is here taken to mean beliefs about the use of force shared by a national community of military and civilian leaders. U.S. strategic culture may be said to c...
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Tennessee Women
As you all know, Charlie is over the moon about her Jayhawks winning the NCAA championship. In case you haven't noticed, Kansas women take their basketball really seriously. Y...
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Tuesday's Gone
The Small Wars Journal crew has put together a comprehensive list of links to pretty much anything you could possibly want to read about yesterday's hearings. You want slides?...
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Gentile vs. Petraeus, Part II
Remember Yochi Dreazen's article on Gian Gentile? Upon reading it over a few times, Gian took issue with the quote at the end. His statement: I am surprised that I have not b...
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Tom Ricks Is Sending Us Secret Messages/Insults
Abu Muqawama got home from Central London in time to hear Obama's first series of questions. He sounded stuttering and retarded until Abu Muqawama realized his internet connec...
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David Petraeus and His Three-Ring Circus
The circus is in town! The circus is in town! Today, Gen. David Petraeus will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee (step forward, Sens. Clinton and McCain) and th...
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National Champs!
My how Charlie loves winning. Overtime victory! A 3 point shot that we'll get to watch on every "One Shining Moment" montage for the next 10 years! ROCK CHALK! Thus conclud...
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I'm talkin' 'bout jahiliyya, ya khayy
Abu Muqawama and his flatmate, Londonstani, have a running joke about the jahiliyya, which is best defined as the age of ignorance that preceded the Prophet Muhammad on the Ar...
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Petraeus, Crocker and God in the Dock
Is it just because Abu Muqawama went to church tonight or has anyone else noticed how often the senators have brought God into the discussion today? First St. George of Voinov...
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More Troops Needed in Afghanistan?
The Commander of Regional Command South says otherwise:"A lot of people talk, 'We need more troops, more troops.' I think it is more about better synchronization between secur...
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When Tupelo, Mississippi Meets Orientalist Fantasy
Abu Muqawama went in search of more information on the strikes in Egypt (look here, here, and here) and instead, on Elijah's blog, he found “Elvis, a thieving midget, dancing ...
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Questions for General Petraeus
In advance of Gen. Petraeus's testimony, we here at Abu Muqawama have put together a list of questions we would ask the good general if we were important. Or, failing that, U....
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Gentile vs. Petraeus
Gian Gentile is a gentleman and a scholar and a fine public servant, but it doesn't take David Galula to figure out that we here at Abu Muqawama have some serious disagreement...
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Dropping the Myth of Reciprocity
In an April 4 editorial, the NY Times editorial board writes of John C. Yoo's un-American memorandum justifying torture by the US military:His primary argument, in which he re...
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Recommended Movie: American Gangster
War among the people shares much in common with the everyday fight of police officers against gangs and narcotics. For those who wish a good, brief view of Social Network Anal...
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Strategic Failure in Afghanistan
Kip is constantly shocked to hear that we have no strategy in Afghanistan. After all, the Afghanistan Compact of 2006 explicitly lays out the goals and conditions of ongoing i...