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If anyone was looking for a definition of "unconventional warfare"...
The U.S. Navy is defenseless against semi-naked, trash-talking Chinese: Maritime experts were given a rare glimpse of the underlying capabilities of the Chinese navy on Sunda...
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Does this qualify as "Army Strong?"
I went to Craig's book-signing last night and then retired with Craig and some friends to an Irish pub a mile down the road. I ended up sitting across from this guy who had ob...
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Abu Muqawama's Taste in Whiskies
Some clarification is in order. While it is true that I do enjoy Bushmills and actually have a bottle of it here, in my office, I feel the need to identify my very favorite wh...
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Oh, great
I don't worry about the guys whose numbers Martin McGuiness and Gerry Adams have on their cell phones. I worry about the guys whose numbers they don't have on their cell phone...
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Gallieni --> Galula --> Petraeus
Hang around this blog long enough and you will hear us talk a lot about not only David Galula and Roger Trinquier but also the earlier generation of French theorists -- Lyaute...
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This. Is. Genius.
Looking for a good history of the Second World War? Like all others, this one focuses too much on Western Europe and gives the United States too much credit. Otherwise, it is ...
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It's Not About Defense. It's About Jobs. Period.
Again, the president has a bigger problem with his own party here than he does with Republicans. All I am asking is that we move these programs out of the defense budget and i...
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Cohen on Hizballah
Roger Cohen gets things a little off in his column today on why we should initiate contacts with the "political wing" of Hizballah. First off, who is this "political wing?" Do...
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And now, your Sunday reading...
1. Pentagon's Unwanted Projects in Earmarks (Washington Post)Guess who is funding the infernal F-22 over the objections of the Pentagon's senior leadership? The evil Republica...
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Breaking News: The Real IRA Are Still a Bunch of %$#@ing Idiots
There was some good news, though, to come out of Northern Ireland today: Speaking earlier today before the claim of responsibility, the Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, called ...
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But when he does, he reads Abu Muqawama
I've got $20 and a shot of Bushmills for the first White House staffer who provides evidence that Barack Obama has read this blog: Q: Other than The New York Times. Do you re...
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Kilcullen on Bacevich on Kilcullen
Dave is ... not happy:I was a little nonplussed by Andrew Bacevich’s review of my recent book, The Accidental Guerrilla (Oxford University Press, 2009). Mr Bacevich is a highl...
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How about we use poppy production? Oh, wait...
Obviously, I have already read the damning 318-page report on the intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iraq released by RAND (.pdf) and authored by Russ Glenn and Jamie ...
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Tennessee = Lebanon
I returned to Tennessee from Lebanon at the beginning of December and thought I was ... back in Lebanon. My congressman, Zach Wamp (McCallie '76), had plastered pictures of hi...
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Definitions
Here's a fun new project for the readership, building off some rather good comments in this morning's post. Please offer your best definitions for the following terms: Doctrin...
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The Getaway
Pakistani television has now aired CCT footage of the Lahore gunmen escaping from the clutches of the Pakistani police. (h/t The Lede) The Pakistani police doesn't exactly se...
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Afternoon Reading
1. Are terrorists stupid? (Timothy Noah, Slate) 2. Tom Friedman: Not exactly Nostradamus (Barrett Brown, Vanity Fair) 3. Thoughts on Hybrid Warfare (Russell Glenn, Small Wars ...
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My Correct Views on Everything (with apologies to Leszek Kolakowski)
A few days ago, I blogged on Andrew Bacevich's review of David Kilcullen's new book, writing, "No one who really understands COIN wants to do it." What I meant by that was tha...
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But where are the people?
Doug Ollivant once had this bright idea (.pdf) that in order to win in Iraq, U.S. troops had to abandon their big, Burger King-supported forward operating bases and get out th...
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Abu Muqawama Contest (Updated)
Many thanks to the readership for the great responses to yesterday's RFI. Here's another brain-teaser. I inherited the office at CNAS that last housed Shawn Brimley and Vikram...