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Pivot Point: Energy Security and Climate Change Panel
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Pivot Point: Inheriting Iraq Panel
CNAS’s “Pivot Point” conference on June 11, 2008, featured a panel on Iraq chaired by Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, USMC (ret.) with CNAS fellow and Georgetown University professo...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Pivot Point: Grand Strategy Panel
The first conference panel explored American grand strategy. Chaired by Joseph Nye, panelists included Michèle Flournoy and Derek Chollet from CNAS, Mitchell Reiss from the Co...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
U.S. China Relations in the Era of Globalization"I think, if you ask many people outside of the United States — and, indeed, historians, maybe, 10 or 15 years from now — what is the key feature of global politics, it might ...
By Kurt Campbell
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Abu Muqawama Hates Golf Anyway
We know some of you are worked up about the fact that President Bush has given up golf so as not to offend some mother who might attend her son's funeral and then see the comm...
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That's why Abu Muqawama loves you, Bobby
From the New York Times:COLORADO SPRINGS — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued a clear warning to the military and its industrial partners on Tuesday that expensive, new ...
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The Limits of COIN in Sadr City
Dr. iRack wanted to take a moment to reflect on COIN in Sadr City. As fighting broke out in Sadr City after the Maliki government's Basra offensive, and rockets began to rain ...
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Lion's Roar: Next Stop Mosul
Sunday is normally a day of rest here in the States, but it is shaping up to be a big day in Iraq. The newly brokered ceasefire aimed at ending the fighting in Sadr City betwe...
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Is Lebanon in a Civil War?
Abu Muqawama's friend and colleague Bech has taken issue with the assertion that yesterday's events in Lebanon can be described as "civil war." (See the third comment in this ...
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Jihadica on Lebanon
At the same time the U.S. government is dismissing one of the world's best analysts of jihadi websites due to a shrinking budget -- because, make no mistake, the U.S. governme...
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Sadr City Ceasefire?
Dr. iRack is procrastinating from grading a bunch of his students' papers, and has CNN on in the background. The network has taken a break from obsessing on the latest turn in...
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Fred Kaplan: What a mensch
We here at Abu Muqawama can be pretty harsh on those with an adolescent inability to admit they're wrong (those who know Charlie will find this especially rich, but whatever)....
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Sometimes, It's What You Don't Say
On May 5, John Bolton, a former influential hawk within the Bush administration and a current crazy person, called on the United States to immediately bomb Iranian/Hizbollah c...
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The Realities for Hizbollah -- and does this mean Ann-Margret's NOT coming? (Updated)
This line in the Washington Post's article on Lebanon jumped out at Abu Muqawama for obvious reasons.Sunni supporters of Hariri's Future Movement, allied with the government, ...
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AQI #1 Busted (Updated - "Not!")
Iraqi security forces say they have detained the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. Abu Ayyab al-Masri, an Egyptian also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was reportedly arrested after ...
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8 May 2008
Is this the day the (new) Lebanese Civil War started? And, more importantly, the day Abu Muqawama's plans to move back to Beirut this summer were wrecked? Abu Muqawama can't f...
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Thug Life: Verbal Gymnastics, Part Deux
Yesterday, Dr. iRack gave you his thoughts on the on the ever-changing labels used to describe the Shia militants U.S. forces are fighting in Sadr City. But Dr. iRack just not...
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Abu Muqawama Couldn't Be Bothered To Come Up With A Clever Title Involving The Word "Fiasco"
How did it escape Abu Muqawama that one of his very favorite military affairs journalists, Tom Ricks, was leaving the Washington Post? (Good luck filling those shoes, jackasse...
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Ibn Khaldun and Political Islam
Abu Muqawama has a request for his readership. While we're proud of our famous counterinsurgency reading list, Abu Muqawama is unhappy with the Political Islam section. He's l...
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Iran and AQI
In a recent interview, a Kuwaiti Sunni fundamentalist named Mubarak Al-Bathali claims that Iran is supporting Sunni insurgents in Iraq. The charges appear signficiant for two...