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Trouble in Timor
Two daring attacks were made today by rebels in East Timor, heart of Australia and New Zealand's own prolonged COIN campaign. The President of East Timor is now in an induced ...
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NATO at Twilight; and a Warning on Pakistan
Two op-eds worth highlighting quickly before we forget: One, Andrew Bachevich writes NATO's eulogy in the L.A. Times. Once the Soviet threat disappeared, the European nations...
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Hooah and Rock Chalk!
Phil Carter highlights a new program between the Army and Charlie's beloved alma mater: the Wounded Warrior Education Initiative.At a press conference yesterday, SecArmy Pete...
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A Problem with the President? Or the Presidency?
Ann Marlowe, who most of us remember from her attack on Montgomery McFate and David Kilcullen in the Weekly Standard, is wrong if she really thinks the counterinsurgency campa...
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Morning Plenary Session: "We Have No %$#@ing Clue What We're Doing"
Charlie just pointed out to us the name of the current NATO conference: “The World in Disarray — Shifting Powers, Lack of Strategies.” Well, at least we're honest....
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Psychology Today explains...
...soldier slang. On the heels of Bob Bateman's recent posts for Small Wars Journal on combat trauma, this is really interesting. A sample: Lightening the ...
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Classifying Criticism
Kip has much to say about how stupid classification hurts counterinsurgency efforts (another day), but an NY Times article points out our rush to classify criticism. The Rand ...
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The Professional
Sometimes we here at Abu Muqawama are guilty of black-and-white characterizations that don't really provide the nuance our readers have come to expect on the issues, and for t...
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Insurgent Diaries ... and the IO Campaign
Kip and Abu Muqawama are at odds with respect to the job the U.S. is doing in the information campaign. We both think the military has done a crummy job in the IO fight since ...
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Charlie's Weekend Notes
Charlie's back from a whirlwind weekend in NYC, though her recovery may continue a bit longer (there are vague memories of holding seminar in a bar with West Point cadets, a b...
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Week in Review: Best of the Best
We'll make you better. Highlights from AM last week:Saturday: Abu Muqawama: One Year Later Friday: Skeptics Central Thursday: More Complaints about IO Wednesday: More Tr...
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The $9 Billion Spring Offensive
Congress recently attached a condition that the executive branch certify that Pakistan is moving toward democracy for $1 billion of this year's $10 billion aid package. Perhap...
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Abu Muqawama: One Year Later
On the occasion of this blog's birthday, our customary and ridiculous use of the third person is suspended for the following post. Abu Muqawama started a year ago today. The n...
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Winning Photo
Today's World Press Photo Award was awarded to Tim Hetherington for a picture he took for Vanity Fair. The picture is of a tired soldier from 2/503 in the Karengal Valley loc...
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Oh, it's on.
You think fights over resources only start wars in the developing world? We haven't had a proper war within the borders of the United States in a while, but some international...
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Counterinsurgent of the Day: Captain Brian von Kraus
One of Abu Muqawama's regular readers wrote in regarding yesterday's video of kids in Iraq going through Al-Qaeda training to say that what the kids were doing really didn't l...
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Skeptics Central
A Michael Gordon article in the NY Times today discusses the Army's new FM 3-0 Operations. Supposedly the manual gives equal weight to maneuver operations and stability operat...
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COIN in JHS 22
“You become a Hasid, you don’t think, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to suppress revolutions,’ ” Mr. Waronker said. But, he said, he drew on his military training as he tackled a schoo...
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Population-Centric Insurgency?
We often write about the way in which brutalities beget brutalities in war and how massacres can lead to tit-for-tat cycles of violence. But is the inverse true as well? When ...
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Does Sec. Gates Read This Blog?
Defense Secretary Gates is clearly on board for the big win in The Long War. If we here at Abu Muqawama had t-shirts, he'd totally wear one to work (possibly under his suit, ...