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Tuesday Morning Reading
1. Troop levels to remain more or less steady in Iraq through December: This has more to do with the Iraqi elections in October than it does with the American election in Nove...
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Taking Advising Seriously
I have made no short shrift of my belief in the need for, at minimum, taking seriously selection, training, and employment of combat advisors. I have dealt with in a previous ...
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AEI: The Way Forward in Iraq
Fred Kagan was on the Charlie Rose Show last week talking about the Surge and Iraq. It really annoys Abu Muqawama how Kagan can't bring himself to ever criticize our efforts i...
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David Ucko on Learning Counterinsurgency
Everyone has been talking up David Ucko's new article in Orbis -- Innovation or Inertia: The U.S. Military and the Learning of Counterinsurgency. Michael Noonan, Frank Hoffman...
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No Fun Zone
Those of you stopping by for some March Madness trash talking will have to look elsewhere. AM says we have "serious" things to talk about. (This after telling Charlie not to p...
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COIN in the Colonies
Over at toohotfortnr, where Spencer shares Abu Muqawama's love of both counter-insurgency doctrine and the Raveonettes, we get called out with respect to how the British might...
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4,000
An ugly milestone....
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2008 Afghanistan A to Z Guide
Last year, a friend passed me a copy of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit's A to Z Guide. It was enormously helpful in understanding everything from the architectu...
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Brian Keenan's Return to Beirut
Brian Keenan was kidnapped in Beirut in 1986 by Islamic Jihad, a shadowy civil war-era organization often linked to Hizbollah.* He was released in 1990. The Sunday Times featu...
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Nicholson Baker's Scummy Little Book
Abu Muqawama has a question: why have both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times enlisted two radical leftists -- Mark Kurlansky and Colm Toibin, respectively -- to rev...
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Abu Khalil vs. Myers on Inside Iraq
This isn't the most intelligent debate you'll watch on Iraq, but it is one of the most amusing. The contrast between Gen. Richard Myers and As'ad "The Angry Arab" Abu Khalil i...
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Opium, Insurgency, and Afghanistan's National Development Strategy
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) releases regular reporting on the opium trade in Afghanistan. They have done excellent work in analyzing the extent of the opium prob...
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Veterans Grill Obama and Clinton
Abu Muqawama would have loved to have seen this Q&A session between eight Iraq War veterans and Senators Obama and Clinton, but because he lives outside the U.S., MTV will...
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Allez Sarko!
Read this entire article. Some good stuff on NATO, France, and Afghanistan. President Sarkozy of France will tell Gordon Brown next week that France plans to send an extra 1...
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How to beat an insurgency...
Abu Muqawama mentioned the excellent briefing on Colombia and the FARC presented by Colombian Vice-Minister of Defense Juan Carlos Pinzón last weekend. Embarrassingly for a st...
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Speaking of Engaging With the Enemy...
Faced with a sharp escalation of suicide bombings in urban areas, the leaders of Pakistan’s new coalition government say they will negotiate with the militants believed to be ...
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Saddam and the Terrorists
Several of this blog's right-of-center readers were offended we linked to the left-of-center journalist Spencer Ackerman's hatchet job on Stephen F. Hayes and Jeffrey Goldberg...
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Shadi Hamid on Obama and Muslims
Globe-trotting citizen of the world (and friend of this blogger) Shadi Hamid has an op-ed in the Washington Post on what Barack Obama's speech and rhetoric might mean to Arabs...
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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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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...