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You Want Some Islam?
Because the New York Times Book Review this week is all about some Islam. There are review articles by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan, Max Rodenbeck, Irshad Manji, Rashid Khal...
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Jihadis in Pakistan
Long article in this week's NYT Mag on jihadis in Pakistan. Seriously down in the weeds. Charlie is still parsing it, but we'll offer more detailed commentary later in the w...
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George MacDonald Fraser, RIP
The author of one of Abu Muqawama's favorite series of books passed away this week at 82. (Charlie is still woefully remiss in not having read them; maybe she'll spend some b...
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How Many Iraqis Have Died Since 2003?
Remember the famous Lancet report which caused such a stir in 2006? The one that argued more than 10 times as many Iraqis had died since 2003 than any other source (pro-govern...
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The Final Post of U.S. Army Maj. Andrew Olmsted
MAJ Andrew Olmsted, a U.S. Army officer and blogger serving in Iraq, died in an ambush Thursday. Take the time this weekend to read his final blog post. It's worth your time, ...
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Nuclear Guards, Asleep at the Watch
And holy %$#@, here's another story that was hidden below all the hubbub over the Iowa caucuses. Thank goodness, because this story is really scary. We better keep this quiet ...
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How al-Jazeera Lost Its Balls
Far, far, far below the ridiculous coverage a few thousand voters in Iowa have been getting today was a story in the New York Times in which Bob Worth reports what the rest of...
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Operational vs. Strategic Culture
This SSI publication came across Charlie's desk today: On the Uses of Cultural Knowledge by Sheila Miyoshi Jager. It manages to pack a review of FM 3-24, an overview of the ...
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An American in Iran
Abu Muqawama doesn't usually post much on Iran, but he just read Max Rodenbeck's long letter from Tehran which ran in the NYRB and thought it good enough to pass along. Max is...
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COSBIN
afghanistanica, the world's leading authority on counter-snowball-insurgency (COSBIN), has this great video up on his blog. Bored and cold U.S. soldiers pick a snowball fight ...
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Losing the Information War
Ace national security reporter Shaun Waterman has an interesting story up on the UPI wire on the way in which the U.S. lost the information battle during First Fallujah: A sec...
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Abu Muqawama assures you all that this book will not be nearly as disappointing as that bungler Colt Brennan was last night
Very rarely does Abu Muqawama recommend a book to his readership without first reading it. That said, Steven Metz's new book, Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy,is on...
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Is Abu Muqawama Actually Pashtun?
Abu Muqawama's Pashtun flatmate is convinced that your humble blogger is a fellow Pashtun and not an East Tennessean of decidedly Scottish descent. His latest "evidence" is pu...
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Happy New Year's, Gang!
Timothy Noah will make you laugh. So will the Onion: Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters...
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The Red Army Faction and Popular German Memory
The government’s “drain the swamp” strategy was meant to deprive the underground of support. But in practice, it meant cracking down on the entire German left—searching squatt...
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Al-Qaeda in Pakistan ... and Final Thoughts on Benazir Bhutto
Carlotta Gall, whose reporting from Afghanistan Abu Muqawama has enjoyed over the past few years, has an article today in the New York Times talking about that way in which th...
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Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
The following announcement was in the New York Times today: Thomas L. Friedman is on book leave. That's good news because it means 90% of the unintelligible metaphors have bee...
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Bhutto Assassination Update (29 Dec)
A few key developments in the ongoing coverage of Bhutto's assassination: Rioting continues across Pakistan. To note: in Sindh province (Bhutto's stronghold) there was subst...
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Charlie Wilson (Mike Vickers bonus edition)
The release of Charlie Wilson's War last week has prompted a barrage of first hand accounts of the good congressman's antics. Not surprisingly, two colorful, first-hand accou...
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Weekend Reading from Military Review
As AM and Charlie both travel over the weekend, here are a few articles to keep you busy: Secretary Gates continues his push for "soft power." Can he be dual-hatted at both St...