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The Worst Case Scenario
Abu Muqawama was hanging out with T.X. Hammes today in London, and T.X. was kind enough to point Abu Muqawama toward some of that British advice Prince Andrew claims the Unite...
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Insurgent Kittens
Any man who monkeys around with a damn cat gets what he deserves as far as Abu Muqawama is concerned. But all the same, who knew they were playing an active role in the resist...
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Crane and Metz on COIN
[via Small Wars Journal] Conrad Crane, the chief author of FM 3-24, and Steven Metz, author of Rethinking Insurgency, are featured in a video discussion available on the U.S. ...
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More Complaints about IO
AM may be impressed by the US publishing a squirm-worthy video of pre-teen terrors. Kip is not so impressed. First, we (that is the institutional military) learn nothing. M...
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1 2 3 Meme: Tag, We're It
Apparently we've figured out how to do chain letters in the blog-o-sphere. And since our friends at Afghanistanica and Kings of War have tagged us, we feel obligated to parta...
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More Troops to Afghanistan?
Call Abu Muqawama crazy, but here's what he sees as the biggest problem facing U.S. diplomats and public officials when they ask Europeans nations to contribute more troops to...
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6 February 1958
In Manchester, of course, the world has come to a stop. As the news comes through on this Thursday evening, factories close early. Tears are running down the red-brick walls o...
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Who's Bad? Paddy Ashdown, apparently.
And for today's most bizarre quote, here's Michael Williams of RUSI, commenting on Paddy Ashdown in the Christian Science Monitor: "Ashdown's a celebrity. He's the Michael Jac...
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Four Stars for Odierno
LTG Ray Odierno has been nominated to be the U.S. Army's next vice chief of staff and to pin on his fourth star, the Washington Post reports. Good for him, and good for the U....
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Kafkaesque primaries
It's coming on 1230am at Charlie's house in DC. (She's back from her Super Tuesday nerdfest party awaiting results from California.) So far it's a good night for McCain fans...
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Strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Just as the genocide in Darfur has refused to confine itself within the borders of the Sudan, but has now destabilised neighbouring Chad, so anything that happens in Pakistan ...
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Winning, But Not Won?
Many of our readers likely came across Max Boot's article this past week, arguing that we're winning the war in Iraq but that victory is only possible if we maintain troop str...
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Super Duper Special Crazy Tuesday! Or, alternately, the 5th of February
Abu Muqawama steers clear of presidential politics on most days, but today is the closest thing the U.S. has to a national primary, and from what this blogger has seen, our de...
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Getting Things Right in Iraq ... Even in 2005
For those of you who followed last week's debate on Iraq strategy and tactics between Gian Gentile and Pete Mansoor, one of the things worth highlighting is that Gentile is, A...
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Reverse Darwinism
The second bomber failed to detonate his explosive belt and was shot dead by a police officer, a police spokesman said. As insurgencies progress, the insurgents -- and the cou...
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But what will happen this summer?
[via Slate] Early in the afternoon, unknown assailants fired shots into the demonstration. The protesters claim either that the army opened fire or that snipers in Ain Roumman...
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Post Another One For the Insurgents
An underdog team beats the undefeated New England cheaters in a prolonged struggle through the fourth quarter. Neither a Manning nor a Brady fan, but happy to see that New Eng...
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Bob Bateman's Combat Trauma Bibliography
[via Small Wars Journal] Combat trauma, in the abstract, is something about which Bob Bateman knows a lot. (LTC Bateman is a combat veteran himself, but his interest in combat...
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Musharraf the Menace
“Al-Qaeda does not exist in Pakistan any more … We have shattered and eliminated their command system there.” – Pervez Musharraf, 2005 How many times have we heard that? Hones...
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WTF, Giants Win?
To quote the irascible TX Hammes: sell everything, convert your dollars to gold, and move to Montana. (But before you go: dig up the numbers of all those girls who told you th...