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"Lord, I hate this city. When will they let me go home to Washington State? Do I honestly have to wait until 2009?"
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates broke his right shoulder in a fall on an icy step at his home in Washington, D.C., and was being treated at Walter Reed Army Medica...
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Ambassadorial Challenges
Somewhere in the ancient stomping grounds of the mighty Khyber pass remains evidence that you reap what you sow...in the guise of Pakistan's now missing ambassador to Afghanis...
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Imad Mughniyeh is Dead
Imad Mughniyeh has been killed one day before the anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri. Lebanon is so %$&*ed... Andrew Exum has more on Harvard's Middle East S...
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Behind the Pause
The case for temporarily halting the reductions was endorsed Monday by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who had previously voiced hope for greater reductions to ease the eno...
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Learn to Drive!!
Many of you who don't live in DC, and don't know Charlie, may think she leads an exciting, glamorous life. You'd be wrong on many counts, not the least of which is that her ...
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Security Clearances
Okay, so according to recent congressional testimony by the current Director of National Intelligence, we know these two things about U.S. government workers who spy on the Un...
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“Kill them all.”
afghanistanica periodically stoops to our level and highlights something COIN-related from Afghanistan's past or present. Today he tells the story of Colonel Sergei Antonenko,...
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Small Wars Journal: The Magazine
Allegedly, this blog is meant to be a resource for folks wanting to learn more about counterinsurgency. So there's really no excuse or reason why we have not done a better job...
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Peaceful Insurgency?
Kip has always been more interested in irregular warfare than insurgency, per se (just as another day he'll go into why he hates the word "counterinsurgency," even as one of i...
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Unintended Consequences of Threatening to Withdrawal
Kip became a skeptic of continued involvement in Iraq during his tour in the country. And in the past several years, he quietly applauded those politicians who threatened to ...
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War and Film
Charlie loves teaching, which is handy when you're a professor. She got to spend the morning watching and discussing Twelve O'Clock High with some young lieutenants. This co...
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Markets of COIN
Effective human intelligence is the cornerstone of effective counterinsurgency. The Army and Marine Corps have dealt with the need for effective human intelligence by declari...
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Classifying Criticism
Kip has much to say about how stupid classification hurts counterinsurgency efforts (another day), but an NY Times article points out our rush to classify criticism. The Rand ...
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Trouble in Timor
Two daring attacks were made today by rebels in East Timor, heart of Australia and New Zealand's own prolonged COIN campaign. The President of East Timor is now in an induced ...
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NATO at Twilight; and a Warning on Pakistan
Two op-eds worth highlighting quickly before we forget: One, Andrew Bachevich writes NATO's eulogy in the L.A. Times. Once the Soviet threat disappeared, the European nations...
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Hooah and Rock Chalk!
Phil Carter highlights a new program between the Army and Charlie's beloved alma mater: the Wounded Warrior Education Initiative.At a press conference yesterday, SecArmy Pete...
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A Problem with the President? Or the Presidency?
Ann Marlowe, who most of us remember from her attack on Montgomery McFate and David Kilcullen in the Weekly Standard, is wrong if she really thinks the counterinsurgency campa...
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Morning Plenary Session: "We Have No %$#@ing Clue What We're Doing"
Charlie just pointed out to us the name of the current NATO conference: “The World in Disarray — Shifting Powers, Lack of Strategies.” Well, at least we're honest....
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Psychology Today explains...
...soldier slang. On the heels of Bob Bateman's recent posts for Small Wars Journal on combat trauma, this is really interesting. A sample: Lightening the ...
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Week in Review: Best of the Best
We'll make you better. Highlights from AM last week:Saturday: Abu Muqawama: One Year Later Friday: Skeptics Central Thursday: More Complaints about IO Wednesday: More Tr...