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Building the Team
The New York Times and the Washington Post have dueling profiles of General McChrystal this morning. Neither are terribly illuminating. (The general likes to run!) Our friend ...
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FT Interview with Naim Qassem
This interview the Financial Times conducted with Hizballah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem is well worth your time. (The full transcript is here.) On the hilarious side,...
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Maddow and the Muqawama
Rachel Maddow just forced me to pronounce the name of this blog on live television, which is how I ended up giving approximately 1.2 million Americans a lesson in how to prono...
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McKiernan's Defenders
Watch CNN's Barbara Starr go after both Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen in yesterday's press conference around the six-minute mark of this video. Just watch. Starr, like ma...
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Biddle on Iraq ... and what to do when things go wrong
Steve Biddle has a piece up on the CFR website on contingency plans for Iraq -- or, as I like to call it, "America's Forgotten War"©. Most likely scenario that would lead to a...
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Exum on McChrystal and More
I just taped a very intense interview with Michele Norris of NPR -- that's ME-shell to you -- on Stanley McChrystal, David McKiernan, Afghanistan, Pat Tillman and detainee abu...
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Obama's War
Dave Kilcullen, Ahmed Rashid, Craig Mullaney and noted Afghanistan expert Robert Greenwald discuss the war in Afghanistan on NPR. (Honestly, I have no idea why NPR keeps booki...
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McKiernan Out, McChrystal In (Updated)
Today, I delivered a lunchtime talk on the evolution of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine to a group of visiting officers and diplomats hailing from various countries across the...
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Good News from Iran, Bad News from Iraq
I just heard a report that Secretary Gates will speak about this later today:A U.S. soldier in Baghdad opened fire on his fellow soldiers Monday, killing five American soldier...
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Fred on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Friends, I am staring down the barrel of another busy week. But by the end of today, I promise a post encouraging you all to buy my friend Nick Schmidle's excellent new book o...
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The Most Depressing Thing You'll Read Today
This is becoming a regular Sunday feature. From the Washington Post: BAGHDAD -- Under the glare of a Humvee's headlights, Brad Blauser broke a sweat assembling a pediatric wh...
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Navel Gazing...
Is it just me, or does the U.S. media get more infatuated with itself whenever the White House Correspondents' Dinner (a.k.a Nerdprom) rolls around? I mean, two of the op-ed c...
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West Point Documentary
Gian Gentile passed along this highly entertaining Australian documentary on the United States Military Academy featuring another friend of the blog, Craig Mullaney (and a fun...
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He Who Rebuilds, Wins
Judah Grunstein, editorial patron of many theorists of counter-insurgency, has a great find from Le Monde on the way the Neapolitan mafia rebuilt after the 1980 earthquake.Pen...
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Mr. Ignatius, what do they really want??
Like a tingly spider sense behind his ears, Londonstani felt there was something amiss in the time-space continuum that would only be resolved by his posting on the AM blog to...
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The CNAS Salt Mines...
...are keeping me busy. I promise to post this weekend if not later today....
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Nagl vs. Bacevich
The NewsHour -- and both men -- kept things civil....
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Control and Collaboration
The most important line in this article on the fighting in Swat:The government has not helped, refugees said, with its erratic, seesawing efforts to appease and fight the mili...
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Everytime Obama wants to talk about corruption, Karzai will talk about ...
... air strikes. The New York Times: KABUL, Afghanistan — Dozens of Afghan civilians were killed in American air raids in western Afghanistan, the International Committee of ...
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What I'm reading...
The first rule for success in both Afghanistan and in blogging is to find yourself some dependable local Pashtun allies. So many thanks go out to Londonstani for covering for ...