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Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
Parag Khanna is so freaking smart. You know when you meet people and walk away thinking, Damn, I can spend the rest of my life in a library or traveling the world and still no...
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What Abu Muqawama's Readers Are Reading ... besides, uh, you know, this blog
About once a month, Abu Muqawama will sift through all the mail his readers send to the abumuqawama[at]hotmail.com email address. A few things of note, worth passing along: Ha...
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Vital Garments
New clothing designed by Smartex may have significant use in the COIN fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. In an article in Wired, Sally McGrane tells us about this new wonderstuff:...
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Private Military Companies in Iraq: No Solution in Sight
With even more U.S. contractors now in Iraq and Afghanistan than U.S. military personnel, government officials told Congress yesterday that the Bush administration is not prep...
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SOS, Different Day
It just never stops...BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An explosion apparently targeting a police official rocked a Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Friday, killing at least six peo...
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Entertaining Policies
As I sit somewhere in the former Soviet Union, I long for a simpler world of mutual destruction where Colin Gray is relevant and congressmen still know how to party. Longing c...
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Today's Clausewitz Quotation, Courtesy of Thomas
Is not war merely another kind of writing and language for political thoughts? Chapter 6, Book VIII, On War...
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File Under: Things We'll Believe When We See With Our Own Damn Eyes
"I'm encouraged that he seems to understand the necessity of doing counterinsurgency," Fallon continued. He said Kiyani will try to reorient the army from its focus on the ext...
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Notes from Afghanistan
There is an op-ed in today's New York Times that doesn't quite explain much about Afghanistan but does offer a peek inside the world of international aid workers living in vio...
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Israel and Hizbollah: The Propaganda War
Abu Muqawama has been thinking a lot recently about propaganda, information operations, and the new media. Cue Nick Blanford, who has an e-article up on NOW Lebanon on the min...
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Skelton calls for Key West II
Once upon a time, the Air Force belonged to the Army. Those were the days. Kidding! (Well, mostly.) The accord that sorted out the many overlapping missions of the Army, N...
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COIN in India
Charlie had an opportunity today to take part in a good conversation on counter-insurgency operations in India (a subject on which Charlie nearly wrote her dissertation). It'...
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File Under: Good Money after Bad
Following AM's skeptical lead, Charlie's less than certain that more US troops and money will stem the tide in Pakistan.The enhanced cooperation will include U.S. military ass...
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Francis Lieber and the Code of Conduct
Folks, there is a great article in the American Scholar on Francis Lieber, the Prussian émigré who wrote America's first code of conduct during the Civil War. During the hot ...
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Moltke (the Elder) on Strategy
Strategy is a system of ad hoc expedients; it is more than knowledge, it is the application of knowledge to practical life, the development of an original idea in accordance w...
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Dumb and Dumber
The percentage of new recruits entering the Army with a high school diploma dropped to a new low in 2007, according to a study released yesterday, and Army officials confirmed...
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Priceless Abu Muqawama Reader Comment #476
I'm a European exchange student in the US Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth and it strikes me that the focus of this academic year is still very much, if n...
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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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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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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...