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Chiarelli (likely) to Iraq
Tom Ricks reads tea leaves so we don't have to!Army Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli appears to be the most likely officer to succeed Gen. David H. Petraeus as top commander of U.S. f...
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I know! Let's have a contest to see who can say the word "hoo-ah" with the most sarcasm.
On the heels of that great New York Times Magazine piece on the Korengal Valley and Kip's comments from earlier today, an old friend of Abu Muqawama -- currently fighting in t...
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Good Luck, Phil!!
Good friend and fellow blogger Phil Carter is doing battle with the New York bar exam this week. We here at AM wish him the best of luck and look forward to a celebratory rou...
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Good Sense Prevails
Kip would be remiss not to point out reasons' rare victory over the environs of bureaucracy. The Army has announced that it will restore public access to the Reimer Public Lib...
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The Economics of Assassination
Many of you didn't like what Yossi Melman had to say yesterday with respect to targeted killings. Abu Muqawama didn't actually think what he was arguing was all that controver...
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AFRICOM: DOA or in Need of Better Marketing?
Matt Armstrong (Mountain Runner) has the answers. Psst... no and yes....
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The PKK Took My Baby Away
We here at Abu Muqawama have kinda forgotten to mention the fact that Turkey has gone to war against PKK insurgents across the border in northern Iraq. Turkish forces crossed ...
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Imad Mughniyeh Hated the Sawx Too
Kip has been trying to bait Abu Muqawama into writing more about Imad Mughniyeh, sending him posts where people claim Mughniyeh was behind everything from the 9/11 bombings to...
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Melman on Assassination as a Tactic
Israel’s experience shows that assassination – or what Israel terms "targeted killing" – is a double-edged sword. The policy only pays off in a few special cases. When a state...
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No Better Time than Now...For the Navy
While the Air Force has responded to the current operational environment by stonewalling change, the Navy has embraced it. In a multimillion-dollar television, radio and onlin...
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A Terrible Idea
Aviation Week & Space Technology (sorry, Kip can't link to this one) reported today that Ike Skelton is seeking to get the US a three-star command in Afghanistan. The cha...
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The Valley Without Joy
Elizabeth Rubin has written the best piece of English-language war reporting from Afghanistan in the last year and possibly of the war. It's excellence forgives a story held ...
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AM Week in Review - Feb 16-23 and Caption Winner Declared
For those of you who missed it, here is a selection of AM's best of the week: Monday - Hassan Nasrallah is Comin' For YouTuesday - Honey, Pack up your Ivy League J.D. and give...
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Captain Kearney's Quagmire
We here at Abu Muqawama have a vague division of labor: Charlie covers the Marines, AM gets the Levant, Kip does Afghanistan, and we all make fun of the Air Force. As a res...
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The Silly Season is Here Early
Abu Muqawama famously stays out of U.S. presidential politics most days, but he needs to add a little belated clarification for his bi-partisan readership, who had probably ju...
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Frozen Bits
An article in today's NY Times makes clear just how fragile our information security can be.But they said they had proved that so-called Trusted Computing hardware, an industr...
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Heavy Reading for the Weekend
Abu Muqawama has two offerings for you. One is from MERIA Journal, where Jonathan Spyer has a solid article on the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbollah. Abu Muqawama doesn't ...
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Auld Lang Syne
Dave Dilegge, channeling Robbie Burns, has a nice tribute to a tribute up on the Small Wars Journal site to two giants: John Collins and Bob Kingston....
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Rub some dirt on it, Eduardo. You'll be okay.
Is anyone else watching Arsenal's game against Birmingham City? Did anyone else see this? (Warning: If you have just eaten, do not view this picture.) In all seriousness, our ...
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Random Saturday Musings
Abu Muqawama was reading The Times of London yesterday and came across this amusing observation from Eddie Izzard on one of Abu Muqawama's favorite films, The Great Escape: “A...