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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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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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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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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...
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COIN on Charlie Rose
Abu Muqawama is thinking hard about whether or not this specific event -- the Bhutto assassination -- affects U.S. COIN efforts in Afghanistan, Swat, and the FATA. While he's ...
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Benazir Bhutto, RIP
Hospital sources are confirming Benazir Bhutto has, in fact, been killed in a massive suicide attack on a political rally. Most web sites are still saying she was wounded. The...
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COIN Academy Library: Mission Complete!
From our partners in crime over at the Small Wars Journal Blog:We are checking it out now, but apparently the last of 86 unique items and over 140 total books and two movies w...
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Christmas Gifts for a Counterinsurgent
Abu Muqawama got some pretty sweet Christmas gifts yesterday, and he wanted to share a few of the titles with you all. 1. Hugh Kennedy's The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spre...
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Now for something completely different...
...it's not the Red Sox but it's close. Fire Joe Morgan* picked it up Friday; Charlie's former student over at the TNR blog linked to it over the weekend: A Flotsam data speci...
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Merry Christmas (afternoon edition)
Charlie is taking advantage of this op-pause in her busy Christmas schedule to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. She has no tradition of Christmas shooting (though the idea...