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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anti-COIN
Abu Muqawama is finally back in East London after two weeks of travel. Because his violent Pashtun flatmate, Londonstani, is currently sneaking across the border of an unnamed...
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Happy V-E Day!
Charlie is a sucker for wartime photography...if you are, too, be sure to check out Slate's Magnum Photo archive of the German surrender in 1945 (and several subsequent commem...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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We'll See Your Cancellation of Talks and Raise You One
The other day, Dr. iRack noted that Iran had pushed aside the prospect of talks with the United States to discuss the security situation in Iraq until the offensive in Sadr Ci...
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Gitmo Blowback?
According to a story in today's Washington Post: A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cu...
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"The Godfather" Doctrine
For all you film-world-meets-international-relations geeks, there is an interesting article by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell in the Los Angeles Times on the "Godfather ...
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Typhoon in Burma
By now most of our esteemed readers will have read about the horrific typhoon in Burma, leaving more than 20,000 dead:A powerful cyclone that destroyed a vast swath of coastal...