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Sweet 16!
It's a Thursday in March, and that means basketball! As mentioned previously, AM has suspended trash-talking on account of having his ass handed to him in the first two round...
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40-year Old Ammunition and the Afghan Army
This is brilliant, damning investigative journalism from C.J. Chivers and the New York Times. Chivers spent several years in the U.S. Marine Corps upon his graduation from Cor...
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Black Saturday and the Blitz
For soldiers and civilians in southeast England, the dominant memory of that night was less the terrible glow in the western sky than the predawn explosions as the British ble...
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Syria and the UN
"There is huge concern bordering on panic in Damascus," said Paul Salem, head of the Carnegie Foundation's office in Beirut. "There is a sense that Syria is drifting into a ve...
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More on Basra (Updated)
Charlie would prefer that Maliki, et al. had picked a different week to launch a major offensive in Basra...she has a chapter to finish goddammit! She'll leave the heavy lift...
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Obama vs. McCain: The Real Fight Begins
As soon as Hillary Clinton ends the charade that is paralyzing the Democratic Party in America, voters can begin weighing the respective foreign policies of John McCain and Ba...
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A Town Called Malice (Updated)
You know who was cool? The Jam. What a great band. You know who isn't cool? JAM -- Jaish al-Mahdi. Those guys pretty much suck. Fighting continued yesterday in both Baghdad an...
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The Biggest Burden?
Oh my goodness, what must Martha Raddatz -- who has been a true friend to U.S. soldiers and their families -- have been thinking when Dick Cheney told her that President Bush ...
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Tuesday Morning Reading
1. Troop levels to remain more or less steady in Iraq through December: This has more to do with the Iraqi elections in October than it does with the American election in Nove...
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اعتصامات وعصيان مدني
Uh-oh. The Sadr crowd is calling for "protests and civil disobedience" following a crackdown on Shia militias. This could end really well or really badly. Keep your fingers cr...
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Leave the Scots Out of This, Ivan
Anatol Lieven has a pretty good critique of the foreign policy of a potential John McCain presidency going until he reaches this paragraph:Mr McCain exemplifies “Jacksonian na...
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So You Wanna Be a Hezbollah Fighter?
Andrew Lee Butters, last seen by Abu Muqawama with a collection of table-dancing women in the early morning hours on Monot Street, has a piece up on TIME Magazine's Middle Eas...
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Entries from The New Combat Contradictionary
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. From the VQR, some excerpts: An Army of One: soldiers who dump their girlfriends/boyfriends right before an overseas deployment ostensibly to ...
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Taking Advising Seriously
I have made no short shrift of my belief in the need for, at minimum, taking seriously selection, training, and employment of combat advisors. I have dealt with in a previous ...
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AEI: The Way Forward in Iraq
Fred Kagan was on the Charlie Rose Show last week talking about the Surge and Iraq. It really annoys Abu Muqawama how Kagan can't bring himself to ever criticize our efforts i...
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David Ucko on Learning Counterinsurgency
Everyone has been talking up David Ucko's new article in Orbis -- Innovation or Inertia: The U.S. Military and the Learning of Counterinsurgency. Michael Noonan, Frank Hoffman...
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No Fun Zone
Those of you stopping by for some March Madness trash talking will have to look elsewhere. AM says we have "serious" things to talk about. (This after telling Charlie not to p...
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COIN in the Colonies
Over at toohotfortnr, where Spencer shares Abu Muqawama's love of both counter-insurgency doctrine and the Raveonettes, we get called out with respect to how the British might...
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4,000
An ugly milestone....
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2008 Afghanistan A to Z Guide
Last year, a friend passed me a copy of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit's A to Z Guide. It was enormously helpful in understanding everything from the architectu...