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Imad Who?
Ooh, Martin Kramer has a really good post up on Harvard's blog. For years, Hizbollah denied involvement with Imad Mughniyeh and claimed not have been involved with any terror ...
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Public Diplomacy Starts at the Top
You know who's not very good at this whole public diplomacy thing? President Bush. We here at Abu Muqawama stay out of the whole presidential politics thing, but that's okay b...
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File Under: Believe it When We See It
Herr Profesor Nagl writes in to rain on our F-22 hate parade to remind us that some in the Air Force do, in fact, get it. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said much the same th...
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Strengthening the Readiness of the U.S. Military
This CNAS Congressional Testimony contains Michèle A. Flournoy's prepared statement to the House Armed Services Committee, on Feb. 14, 2008. According to Flournoy, "the readin...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Happy Valentine's Day!
Valentine's Day may be the most worthless holiday of all time, but it's not all bad. For one, genius Cintra Wilson offers her thoughts on the holiday's "fashion." (Note: Vi...
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Thinking for Failure
How can we still have it so wrong! Today (thank you Danger Room for posting this important article) the Army moved its entire Reimer Digital Library containing doctrinal publi...
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Down with COIN!
Good news for all full spectrum operators today! Acquisition officials all over the US military are licking their lips in anticipation of ignoring the lessons of irregular wa...
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Imad Mughniyeh: Who Killed Him?
Imad Mughniyeh is set to be buried today in Beirut. It's funny: last night, Abu Muqawama got a call from a friend of his wondering if he should cancel his business trip to Bei...
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Ambassadorial Challenges
Somewhere in the ancient stomping grounds of the mighty Khyber pass remains evidence that you reap what you sow...in the guise of Pakistan's now missing ambassador to Afghanis...
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Learn to Drive!!
Many of you who don't live in DC, and don't know Charlie, may think she leads an exciting, glamorous life. You'd be wrong on many counts, not the least of which is that her ...
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Behind the Pause
The case for temporarily halting the reductions was endorsed Monday by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who had previously voiced hope for greater reductions to ease the eno...
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Imad Mughniyeh is Dead
Imad Mughniyeh has been killed one day before the anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri. Lebanon is so %$&*ed... Andrew Exum has more on Harvard's Middle East S...
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"Lord, I hate this city. When will they let me go home to Washington State? Do I honestly have to wait until 2009?"
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates broke his right shoulder in a fall on an icy step at his home in Washington, D.C., and was being treated at Walter Reed Army Medica...
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Security Clearances
Okay, so according to recent congressional testimony by the current Director of National Intelligence, we know these two things about U.S. government workers who spy on the Un...
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War and Film
Charlie loves teaching, which is handy when you're a professor. She got to spend the morning watching and discussing Twelve O'Clock High with some young lieutenants. This co...
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Unintended Consequences of Threatening to Withdrawal
Kip became a skeptic of continued involvement in Iraq during his tour in the country. And in the past several years, he quietly applauded those politicians who threatened to ...
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Peaceful Insurgency?
Kip has always been more interested in irregular warfare than insurgency, per se (just as another day he'll go into why he hates the word "counterinsurgency," even as one of i...
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Small Wars Journal: The Magazine
Allegedly, this blog is meant to be a resource for folks wanting to learn more about counterinsurgency. So there's really no excuse or reason why we have not done a better job...
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“Kill them all.”
afghanistanica periodically stoops to our level and highlights something COIN-related from Afghanistan's past or present. Today he tells the story of Colonel Sergei Antonenko,...
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Markets of COIN
Effective human intelligence is the cornerstone of effective counterinsurgency. The Army and Marine Corps have dealt with the need for effective human intelligence by declari...