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Awakening to New Dangers
With all the focus on intra-Shia conflict over the past month, Dr. iRack wanted to draw readers' attention for a moment back to a silent storm brewing: the fate of the "Sons o...
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The Counterinsurgency Debate on NPR
NPR ran an excellent and fair report on the ongoing debate about COIN and conventional preparedness on Morning Edition this morning. John Nagl is called the disciple of COIN's...
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Flagless Advisors
Working within the advisor command in Afghanistan was both one of the most rewarding and troubling experiences of Kip's life. Because no one is really taking responsibility f...
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Who Stopped the Talks?
Dr. iRack took note of some big news today: the Iranians have decided to halt talks with the United States over the security situation in Iraq until American forces stop their...
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O'Sullivan and Rose
[via SWJ] Meghan O'Sullivan on Charlie Rose....
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Green Zone Disney! Seriously!
More in the category of "you can't make this sh*t up" from the AP:BAGHDAD - Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxu...
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Lee Greenwood...really? REALLY?
Charlie had the good fortune of attending the DC Special Forces Association dinner this weekend (appropriately dressed in green, of course). First, let her say, that if you ev...
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Iran to Gordon to Present the Evidence
For a while now, Dr. iRack has been expecting MNF-I to provide a briefing describing Iranian lethal assisance to elements of JAM (frequently described as "special groups"). Th...
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McMiTTs
Dr. iRack took note of a new Walter Pincus piece in the Washington Post. Apparently, U.S. commanders in Iraq are for the first time seeking private contractors to form part ...
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Shocking Encounters
Kip has learned over the course of his time in Iraq and Afghanistan that electricity is serious business and so read with interest what must have been an otherwise strange art...
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Circular Firing Squad: The Sanchez Chronicles
Last month, Dr. iRack took note of Doug Feith's new memoir War and Decision, which pointed the finger at everybody else but OSD in assigning blame for failures in Iraq during ...
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Iraqi Delegation Presents Its Case
Reuters has a good article on the Iraqi delegation sent to Iran to present evidence of Iranian security services' involvement in training and arming Shia militants involved in...
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Military Success, Politcal Stalemate
Abu Muqawama is blogging from his lair in East Tennessee (so expect posting to be light for a few more days), but he wanted to draw your attention to this article in the New Y...
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The Senate Plays Chicken with the Sons of Iraq
Like Dr. iRack, you probably noticed that there was bipartisan outrage during the recent Petraeus/Crocker testimony over the tens of billions of dollars from windfall oil prof...
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"'Mission Accomplished' for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission"
Dr. iRack has been in the UK all week conferencing, and I've had a hard time keeping dates straight. Anyway, as you all know, yesterday was the five year anniversary of Bush's...
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Asymmetry and Miscalculation at Sea
Via Laura Rozen at War and Piece comes this piece by Chistopher Dickey in Newsweek on the prospects for a U.S.-Iranian war at sea. Dr. iRack is no navy guy, but these dynamics...
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Calling All Readers: RFI
So Abu Muqawama got into a semi-public argument with one of the world's leading al-Qaeda experts today about a subject he wants you guys to weigh in on. Basically, Abu Muqawam...
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Sadr City Blues
The fighting between U.S. and Iraqi forces and elements of JAM in Sadr City has been fierce. The coalition reports that it has killed 200 fighters, and claims that militants h...
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
Dr. iRack has admired Tina Susman's terrific reporting on Iraq for the Los Angeles Times for a while. (Indeed, throughout the war, the LAT has often produced much better repo...
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The Most Powerful Man in Iraq?
A friend of Dr. iRack's passed along an interesting McClatchy piece on Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, the Iranian paramilitary and espionage org...