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Happy Nowruz
To my Persian and Afghan friends (particularly my interpreters), happy Nowruz. It seems far more sensible to mark your New Year celebration during springtime rather in the de...
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Engaging Hamas
It's Good Friday, and that means Abu Muqawama is off to church in a minute. But it also means the 10-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland (which w...
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Lebanon Job Opening with ICG
This strikes Abu Muqawama as a great job. He's not applying, but he'll be interested in who they hire....
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Abu Muqawama was short-listed, we hear
Peter F. Dorman, an Egyptologist, has been named the new president of the American University of Beirut....
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One more word about Northern Ireland...
Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely recently stated that "all insurgencies are sui generis," meaning that all insurgencies take place within a specific social, cultural, histo...
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Insurgency Research Group Blog
The Insurgency Research Group at King's College London has a new blog. It has been duly added to the links on the right....
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Clinton Praises Petraeus...
...as well she should....
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The WaPo Calls Out Clinton and Obama Campaign Rhetoric on Iraq...
...as well they should....
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And Ackerman Calls Out Stephen F. Hayes and Jeff Goldberg...
...as well he should. (This is a devastating must-read.)...
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March Madness: Day 1
The first two days of March Madness are the two greatest days in all of sports. Charlie brokers no dissent on this issue. Though to be fair, Charlie isn't inclined to tolerate...
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Iraq, and the Women of COIN
Nice of Charlie to emerge from her hole to post on ... basketball. Charlie might have instead posted on something from the cold-blooded world of counter-insurgency warfare, wh...
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MiTTs in Mosul
A long article in today's NY Times discusses the US and Iraqi Army on operations in Mosul. For those of us who believe that conflict among the people can only be resolved from...
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Keep me English to my dying day: No surrender, no surrender, no surrender to the IRA
Fouad Ajami, one of the earliest and most strident backers of the Iraq War, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Iraq entitled 'No Surrender.' That title -- and the op-e...
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Free Speech for Officers
Larry Korb and Phil Carter, two left-of-center defense intellectuals, are debating whether or not military officers have or should have complete freedom of speech over on the ...
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March Madness
Readers of this blog can check Abu Muqawama's NCAA bracket at the Washington Post Tourney Tracker. It's saved under the name "AbuMuqawama" but isn't terribly inventive. Abu Mu...
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello
Abu Muqawama thinks that the situation in Iraq really began to nosedive in April 2004, when Fallujah melted down and the Shia insurrection started in the south. Our friend Y....
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21st Century Conflict
What does conflict look like in the 21st Century? Kind of like this.... Wouldn't it have been useful to learn about this in the 1990s instead of seeing it as a distraction to ...
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This post has nothing to do with counter-insurgency
As Abu Muqawama gets older he's getting more and more like his old man, tearing up at the cheesiest stories and anecdotes. Today it was the end of Barack Obama's speech. John ...
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Scions of the Surge
We haven't yet blogged on the Newsweek articles about how Iraq and Afghanistan are changing the U.S. Army's officer corps, but until we do, you guys should at least read both ...
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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...