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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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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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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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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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In case you missed it...
Abu Muqawama is getting caught up on his reading and wants to point the way toward two really good offerings from the crew at Small Wars Journal that you guys may or may not h...
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The Real Causes of Grievance
Abu Muqawama bought and read the New York Review of Books yesterday mainly because of Max Rodenbeck's review of Robin Wright's Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle Eas...
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Georgetown's Exit Strategy
Student journalist Julia Cai should be offered a job with a major American newspaper upon graduation on the strength of the opening line to her article on Doug Feith's dismiss...
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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...
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The Big O
In 2003-2004, when he was the Division commander for the 4th ID in Iraq, Ray Odierno was widely criticized for for being overly kinetic and not understanding COIN. The now cla...
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Two Apologies
Hey gang, Abu Muqawama apologizes to the readership for being MIA. He has been traveling these past few days and has another week of traveling ahead of him. Many thanks to Dr....
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Abu Abed Survives
Among the biggest reasons for the significant decline in violence in Iraq over the past year is the Sunni Awakening (or Sahwa). The movement includes tribal sheiks, former Sun...
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The Latest Attack in Kabul
Yesterday's ambush on dignitaries at the large, well-planned parade marking the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan was just the latest move in the evolution of th...
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Feith-less
The Washington Times, a vanguard of the liberal anti-war media propaganda machine if there ever was one, savages Doug Feith, one of the Iraq war's architects, and his new memo...
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More on the Generals
A good friend of Kip's had this to say about the Bateman response to the NY Times article on graybeards being used, tsk tsk, for information operations. An interesting civili...
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Summer Kirkuk-Off
Dr. iRack took note of a good piece in the Christian Science Monitor on Kirkuk. The area has long been seen as a potential flashpoint for ethnic strife between Arabs, Kurds, a...