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Charlie Wilson's War
Abu Muqawama watched Charlie Wilson's War with his grandmother yesterday and can recommend it to his readership, although Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance was the only thi...
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Weekend Reading, and a Note
There has been some discussion in the comments over officer promotions about the requirement that all officers seeking promotion to general officer serve in a joint or "purple...
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“It is a case of the son surpassing the father”
The Economist confirms what Abu Muqawama has been saying for quite some time: the U.S. military has learned the basic principles of counterinsurgency with frightening speed, a...
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The Exodus of the Captains
Abu Muqawama returned home to Tennessee for the holidays yesterday and apologizes for not blogging yesterday. Today, though, he's been watching Reading Rainbow with his niece ...
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Traveling Again / Still
Now it's Charlie's turn to travel, so things will be quiet here for a couple days. In the meantime, check out this long article from the Washington Monthly on the exodus of s...
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An Exercise for the Reader...
One of Charlie's advisors told her early in graduate school that a 50% of what one reads should be from outside their professed academic field. It's great advice, if only bec...
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New Journal from West Point's CTC
So Abu Muqawama has been staying with a friend for the past two nights, and this friend has the uncanny ability to sleep through his alarm clock radio for, like, 20 minutes wh...
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Iron Triangle at Work
Charlie has often argued that if we could figure out a COIN platform or weapons system that was manufactured in 435 Congressional districts like the F-22, we'd have a lot easi...
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Abu Muqawama, in DC, and Nasrallah Rumors
Abu Muqawama is sitting in Tryst on 18th Street NW in Washington, DC along with what must be the bulk of Washington's blogging community.* Aside from blogging, he is reviewing...
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Traveling ... and Afghanistan
Abu Muqawama is traveling, again, so posting could be light until he's able to sit down properly by a computer on Tuesday or so. You are in Charlie's capable hands until then....
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Afghanistan Sunday at the NYT
The New York Times leads off this morning's newspaper with both a long article on the top-to-bottom review of the mission in Afghanistan (about time, says Abu Muqawama) and a ...
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The Arabs of 1948
Yeah, "Palestine" is always a good issue for Arab leaders to exploit when they need to unify their populations in the face of some domestic political threat, but funny how no ...
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Poverty Does Not Terror Make
There is an article in the New York Times this morning suggesting poverty had something to do with the decision of Larbi Charef and others to blow themselves up in a suicide a...
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Abu Muqawama [hearts] David Smith
Is everyone out there clear about how much Abu Muqawama admires many of the Guardian's far-flung reporters (and football coverage) yet hates the newspaper itself? When it's no...
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The Demise of al-Jazeera?
Andrew Hammond, who speaks wickedly good Arabic and is a close friend of Abu Muqawama's violent Pashtun flatmate, has an article up on the Reuters wire on the thaw in relation...
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Steroids!
For those of you who come here for your sporting news,* here's the link to MLB's Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball. Good news for Red Sox Nation: Eric Gagne was the...
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State Dept staffing cuts
After finally filling its required posts in Iraq an Afghanistan the State Department has been forced to make cuts in 10% of its staffing jobs elsewhere: Diplomatic posts at t...
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Qassem Now Hizbollah's Military Commander?
What the hell? Can anyone verify the article in Saudi-owned ash-Sharq al-Awsat claiming that Iran has named Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem Hizbollah's military commander...
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Regular Service Resumes
Abu Muqawama is back. He thanks Charlie for picking up the slack while he was away and apologizes to the readership for being out of loop this past week. He had a great visit ...
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Lebanese Gen Francois al-Hajj killed
Lebanon's Army Chief of Operations, and top candidate for Army Chief of Staff, was killed today in a car bombing near the Presidential Palace in Beirut. (The current Chief of...