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Allow me to re-introduce myself
Snap! Everyone's favorite anthropologist -- Montgomery McFate, not Clifford Geertz -- lays the smack-down on Newsweek....
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Foreign Fighters in Iraq
If you guys (and gals) get the chance, check out the Clinton Watts article from Small Wars Journal on foreign fighters in Iraq. Abu Muqawama read it with his morning coffee....
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Exum on the Gates Speech
Andrew Exum weighs in over on Harvard's Middle East Strategy blog on the speech by Sec. Gates to the Association of American Universities. Since 9/11, the U.S. and its allies...
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Blanford's Latest on Hizbollah
Nick Blanford's latest excellent report on Hizbollah's military preparations is getting a lot of notice on both sides of the Blue Line. Check it out. Abu Muqawama's analysis f...
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Dr. iRack Ponders Basra
Dr. iRack here. He wants to thank AM for adding him to the list of guest bloggers! If anybody out there is wondering about the origins of Dr. iRack's “handle,” check out this ...
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NATO Resupplies Taliban?
Kip has been following this story for some time in the Afghan news and was waiting for a wire or someone to break it on this side of the ocean to share it with you. If you wan...
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The Old Firm
Is anyone watching this Rangers-Celtic match? Abu Muqawama is at home, listening to Radio Scotland and watching the Guardian's minute-by-minute report. It sounds like a real c...
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Chickenhawks Are Now On This Blog's Endangered Species List
In a fit, Abu Muqawama dragged out the "chickenhawk" tag a few weeks ago and promptly apologized. That hasn't stopped our comments section from buzzing with respect to whether...
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"Put your back into it!"
The list of things that cause outbursts of rage over at Abu Muqawama HQ is long. Chief among them is finding that the no nonsense men's barbers across the street has become a ...
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The Blogging Genius of Iraq
A few months ago, one of our readers pointed out this new blog being written by a lieutenant currently serving in Iraq. Gang, this man is a genius. This post is probably Abu M...
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Abu Muqawama Was the Alternate
One of our readers sent along this "guest list" from the glossy Washingtonian Magazine. On the list of people the Washingtonian would invite to a dinner party are both Ghida F...
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AEI will spin this one as a triumph of American-style limited government
The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which has provided little financial assistance to the more than 2 million Iraqis who have fled the country's sectarian ...
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Attackerman
Abu Muqawama often complains the American Left doesn't pay enough attention to national security issues and often sounds ignorant when trying to talk about them. And left-wing...
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Counter-insurgency? Or Counter-terror? And how do we define "victory"?
Many thanks to Will at the Insurgency Research Group Blog for pointing Abu Muqawama toward this monograph (.pdf) by Major General Ya’akov Amidror (IDF, retired) on Israeli cou...
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Coolest Afghan Blogging Name
A shout out to TT Carnahan for perhaps the coolest Afghanistan advisor blogging handle to date (see here if you have no idea why...). With Bill and Bob back stateside, we'll...
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Sadr is very popular in both southern Iraq and the FAR south
Abu Muqawama isn't sure what to think of this video, sent in by a reader:...
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Gavrilo Princip is Abu Muqawama's Homeboy
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Al-Qaeda's Arithmetic of Response
...the meeting was arranged. I would meet with someone in Lebanon who knew a man connected to the 2003 New York plot. That was all I knew until I arrived in Beirut. As I was r...
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Journalists Under Siege in Lebanon
That's a title that brings back memories of the dark old days in the 1980s when Western journalists were taken hostage and sometimes killed. But this program on al-Jazeera (En...
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In related news, JAM announces 1,300 new recruits
Yes, Abu Muqawama understands the usual blogging thing means he reads an article in the news he thinks is important and then provides some commentary, but in this case, Abu Mu...