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Air COIN Con
Trust me. I love the Air Force. There is nothing that gives a better sense of security to the small unit counterinsurgent than knowledge that he's got a JDAM from Uncle Sam ...
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Shuffling Deckchairs...
Abu Muqawama was in the airport yesterday and ran into ace defense correspondent Tom Ricks, who was on his way to do some reporting from Iraq. Abu Muqawama tried not to be con...
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War, Meet the 2008 Campaign
Michael Gordon has been busy this weekend. And while Charlie doesn't share AM's aversion to partisan politics and the 2008 election, she's not usually inclined to indulge suc...
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Petraeus to NATO?
The NYT is reporting some RUMINT that Charlie has been hearing for a while now: that GEN Petraeus may follow up his tour in Iraq with a stint as Supreme Allied Commander, Eur...
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Kip on Pakistan and Afghanistan
It with great pleasure that we announce a third member of the blogging team here at Abu Muqawama. "Kip" is a U.S. Army officer who has served in Iraq and -- extensively and re...
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Leadership, Definition of
You guys all know by now that Abu Muqawama is a) devoutly non-partisan and b) hates talking about the 2008 U.S. presidential election at the expense of Iraq and Afghanistan, b...
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Lazy Sunday Reading
Check out the pro-Surge and anti-Surge op-eds in the Washington Post today written by Keane, (Frederick) Kagan and O'Hanlon and Andrew Bacevich, respectively. Aside from takin...
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Happy Birthday, Charlie!
Counterinsurgency practitioners and theorists lucky enough to know the more charming and intelligent half of your friendly blogging team will gather in Washington, DC tonight ...
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Having Trouble Visiting Abu Muqawama?
Are you a U.S. government employee or soldier who is having trouble breaking past the government's firewall to view this site on your computer? Try the program Psiphon, design...
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Between fitna, fawda, and the deep blue sea
IT IS not easy to be an Arab these days. If you are old, the place where you live is likely to have changed so much that little seems friendly and familiar. If you are young, ...
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Worst. General. Ever.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, was paid $100,000 to endorse a veterans charity that watchdog groups say is ripping off don...
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Gates on NATO Allies
"I'm worried we have some military forces that don't know how to do counterinsurgency operations." -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking on NATO allies in Afghanistan...
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More on COIN and the Europeans, plus Nir Rosen in the Boston Review
Abu Muqawama has just driven to Washington, DC from Carlisle, Pennsylvania through a snowstorm. It was a decidedly white-knuckle experience. The closer you get to DC, the craz...
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Kahl vs. Yglesias
This is exactly the kind of debate Abu Muqawama's readers will appreciate. Colin Kahl vs. leftist blogger Matthew Yglesias on air power and air strikes in COIN operations... P...
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Continuing Nagl coverage...
(Sorry, update VI just seemed absurd.) Indulge Charlie in one more Nagl story for the day; she's pretty sure you won't regret it. Spend some time with his review of Brian Tur...
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LTC John Nagl to retire
Readers of this blog will surely be interested in Tom Ricks' article this morning on LTC Nagl's pending retirement. One of the Army's most prominent younger officers, whose wr...
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Ugh...
...events such as this are giving Abu Muqawama reservations about moving back to Beirut this summer. BEIRUT, Lebanon — A bomb evidently meant to destroy an American Embassy ca...
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Iraqi Reconciliation? Not quite.
Intrepid reporter Spencer asks the tough questions about the new Iraqi reconciliation law:This de-Baathification law sounds worse than not having a law in the first place. The...
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File Under: Revolution Eats its Children (Pakistan Edition)
Long article this morning from veteran NYT Pakistan and Afghanistan reporters Carlotta Gall and David Rhode. In addition to a detailed background of the ISI's involvement wit...
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The Tyranny of Contractors, part the millionth
There's lots of good commentary on the role of contractors on the battlefield, but Charlie wants to address an issue a bit closer to home. Or, more precisely, her office. Her...