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The Sentinel
Abu Muqawama was searching around the Combating Terrorism Center site and noticed Gen. Wayne Downing passed away last summer while Abu Muqawama was in Morocco. Man, if we had ...
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Honey, pack up your Ivy League J.D. and give notice to the boss cuz we're moving to Watertown
Lost in the hubbub over the admittedly ridiculous emo-boy picture accompanying that article in the Kansas City Star on John Nagl was this quote: Why is the Army having such a ...
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A Paradox of Pax Americana
Two articles in the NY Times in the past month on weddings, of all things, reveal an unintentional and difficult paradox of a cultural Pax Americana: 1) those exposed to a Wes...
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Kip's Reader Caption Contest
Alleged battalion commander LTC John Nagl appears this week in an early eulogy to his Army career in the Kansas City Star (thanks Charlie). Will the COIN temple stand? Kip wi...
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Hassan Nasrallah is Comin' for YOU!
Folks in Israel are pretty much done celebrating the death of Imad Mughniyeh and are now preparing for the inevitable backlash. That backlash was the subject of an op-ed in to...
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Fred Kaplan puts Kip's name in lights!
Kip's hit the big time, giving your favorite blog one of its biggest mainstream media pick-ups in recent memory. Fred Kaplan picked up Kip's screed from last week regarding n...
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Are the Marines really coming around on MTTs?
Charlie keeps a close eye on the musings of the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Mostly because, in her informed opinion, he just doesn't get it. But, as with LTG Odierno, it...
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Is it Time for the Spring Offensive Already?
Two big bombings in two days in Kandahar province:A suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed 35 civilians at a busy market in southern Afghanistan, a pol...
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Try to imagine Matt Damon's character from the Good Shepherd infiltrating a mosque in Hamburg
Official cover worked well for the duration of the Cold War, when holding a job at a U.S. Embassy enabled American spies to make contact with Soviet officials and other commun...
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Today's offering from the Nietzsche Family Circus sums up our hopes precisely
I welcome that a more manly, a warlike,age is about to begin, an age which, aboveall, will give honor to valor once again....
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It's confirmed: Barca love freedom; Real Madrid son islamo-fascistas
Heroic Freedom Fighter Cowardly Islamist Terrorists Abu Muqawama just saw this picture (top) of an Iraqi tribal militiaman -- one of America's allies in Iraq (for the moment) ...
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Abu Muqawama's Week in Review
Another good week here at Abu Muqawama. For those of you who missed the highlights and fireworks, here they are: Monday: COIN Markets Tuesday: War and Film Wednesday: Security...
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Moral Courage, Definition of
TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, in the final days of the Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.’s Tehran station chief, Tom Ahern, faced his principal interrogator for the last time. The int...
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Seriously? A Headrest Bomb?
According to Israeli intelligence sources, someone had replaced the headrest of the driver’s seat with another containing a small high-explosive charge. Israel welcomed his de...
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Lee Smith on the Pax Americana, Ali Hashem on Imad Mughniyeh
Drawing from opposite ends of the political spectrum in a bid to confuse our readers is a hallmark of this blog, and today we have two offerings for you. First up is Lee Smith...
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The Evolution of Odierno
The Washington Post has an article on the evolution of Gen. Ray Odierno from a division commander focused on breaking heads to a theater commander focused on winning hearts an...
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More on the Mysteries of Social Science
Check out this NYT Mag article on Patrick Ball, "who has spent nearly two decades fashioning a career for himself at the intersection of mathematics and murder. You could call...
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And a Big US Army Middle Finger to all the Captains
You reading this? You a US Army captain? You wonder what your worth to the Army? Well, less than a private... How's $30,000 of indentured servitude feel now? (Or, perhaps you ...
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Betrayed, reviewed
For those of you not inclined to read the Arts section of major NYC print publications (and Charlie's guessing that's about, hmm, all of you), let her be the first to tell you...
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A nation at war? Not any time soon...
For those civilians who hoped after President Bush's 2007 State of the Union address that the President was finally opening an avenue for a nation not at war to support a mili...