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Deterring Terror
When Abu Muqawama first saw this article in the New York Times about U.S. efforts to adopt a deterrence strategy toward terror groups, he thought it was the most ridiculous th...
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Reining in the Arab Media
Arab Media & Society has a special online feature covering the new regulations passed by the wise Arab rulers to prevent networks like al-Jazeera from saying anything cont...
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Exum on Learning the Right Lessons from 2006
Right on cue, the new March edition of the U.S. Military Academy Combating Terrorism Center's Sentinel has been published and is on their website. Why do you need to read this...
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Highly Successful?
Abu Muqawama has been reading the Matt Matthews monograph on the 2006 war this afternoon. It is quite good, and we can recommend it. But one thing bothers Abu Muqawama. Matthe...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day
The Guardian has a special week-long report on the way the Irish Insurgency of 1966-1998 (aka The Troubles) ended....
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Matt Matthews on the 2006 War
Attention, readers: Matt Matthews has published his long-awaited report on the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbollah. You no doubt remember the awesome interview Matthews cond...
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Yes, you did. No, I didn't. Yes. You. Did.
Briefly, is there any good will remaining between L. Paul Bremer and the Bush Administration? Jerry says he didn't dismantle the Iraqi Army. Everyone else, meanwhile, says he ...
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Old Maps
Abu Muqawama has been away for the past several days at a COIN conference held at Wilton Park. Although all of the presentations were delivered under Chatham House rules and t...
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Olympic Hurdles
Whoever becomes the master of a city accustomed to freedom, and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed himself; because, when there is a rebellion, such a city justif...
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COIN Book Club, No. 7
For our 7th Book Club, guest contributor Tom Ricks has graciously permitted his fans at Abu Muqawama to reprint his review of Piers Mackesy's "The War of American 1775-1783," ...
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Week in Review: Selection Sunday Edition!
[hums quietly: it's the most wonderful time...of the year!] Here's this week's highlights; stick around for some roundball trash talking in the weeks to come. (Sorry about t...
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The Falling Towers of Babble
Since Kip's post regarding the Taliban's threat to begin attacking cell phone companies unless they shut their networks down during the night, the Taliban have begun to act on...
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Second COIN Analogy of the Day: Baseball
For those who've ever wondered why Charlie thinks all serious military analysts and COIN enthusiasts should read Moneyball, I present to you the world according to Bill James ...
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COIN Analogy of the Day: The Staircase
Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely offered up the following analogy today in response to the misguided assertion that counter-insurgency depends upon killing all the insurgen...
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Global Insurgency?
None of us have posted much on Ethiopia's ongoing, US-supported COIN effort in Somalia. By all accounts, things are getting worse for the Ethiopians and their Somali partners ...
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Hello....
Can it be true? The blog abandoned? AM gone off on some boondoggle of a COIN conference...Charlie in self-enforced seclusion. Kip all alone? What to do? What mischief can be...
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"This war is the war I'm concerned about..."
Posting will be light over the next few days as Abu Muqawama attends a conference on -- what else? -- counterinsurgency. This report, from another conference held earlier this...
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The Counterinsurgency Reading List, Updated
The gang at Abu Muqawama has put our heads together and updated, once again, our famous Counterinsurgency Reading List. Added to the list are books by Giustozzi and Glubb as w...
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A General Who Actually Listens to his Captains
General B.B. Bell is seeking to make a tour to South Korea an accompanied tour. South Korea is pretty much the worst assignment a married soldier can draw right now as he cou...
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Brigades Can't Be Advisors
FM 3-0 Operations establishes that Army brigades must be capable of conducting combat across the full spectrum of environments ranging from peacekeeping to counterinsurgency t...