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Second COIN Analogy of the Day: Baseball
For those who've ever wondered why Charlie thinks all serious military analysts and COIN enthusiasts should read Moneyball, I present to you the world according to Bill James ...
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COIN Analogy of the Day: The Staircase
Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely offered up the following analogy today in response to the misguided assertion that counter-insurgency depends upon killing all the insurgen...
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Global Insurgency?
None of us have posted much on Ethiopia's ongoing, US-supported COIN effort in Somalia. By all accounts, things are getting worse for the Ethiopians and their Somali partners ...
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The Falling Towers of Babble
Since Kip's post regarding the Taliban's threat to begin attacking cell phone companies unless they shut their networks down during the night, the Taliban have begun to act on...
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Hello....
Can it be true? The blog abandoned? AM gone off on some boondoggle of a COIN conference...Charlie in self-enforced seclusion. Kip all alone? What to do? What mischief can be...
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"This war is the war I'm concerned about..."
Posting will be light over the next few days as Abu Muqawama attends a conference on -- what else? -- counterinsurgency. This report, from another conference held earlier this...
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The Counterinsurgency Reading List, Updated
The gang at Abu Muqawama has put our heads together and updated, once again, our famous Counterinsurgency Reading List. Added to the list are books by Giustozzi and Glubb as w...
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A General Who Actually Listens to his Captains
General B.B. Bell is seeking to make a tour to South Korea an accompanied tour. South Korea is pretty much the worst assignment a married soldier can draw right now as he cou...
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If this were in America...
The Oxford inquest heard that before his death, soldiers complained repeatedly about a lack of proper equipment - chiefly standard night vision kits and weaponry. ...politicia...
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Rosen vs. Kagan on The Surge
But when you hang out with the Sunni militiamen, with the concerned local citizens, when you hang out with the Mahdi army, when you're not with the American soldiers, but when...
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New Counterinsurgency Book
Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian have just edited and published a new volume, Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare. Here are three chapters that caught the eye of Abu Muqawa...
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When Fox Fallon comes back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5, it ain't to play games with you, it's to aim at you
If you're looking for our coverage and commentary on the resignation/retirement of Adm. Fallon, either scroll down two posts or click here....
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The End of afghanistanica
afghanistanica, Abu Muqawama's favorite blog on Afghanistan, is no more. The link to afghanistanica on the right will be replaced by this promising new blog on the Afghanistan...
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Charlie Drops the Ball
Charlie will be mostly MIA for the next month or so as she crashes on her dissertation. She's on tap for the weekly "Best of the Best," but otherwise expect radio silence. U...
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"I don't have any comment on it."
Really, Thomas P.M. Barnett? Because the consensus over here at Abu Muqawama is that if one of us had written a piece in Esquire that had helped end a good man's career, we mi...
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McCain and EADS
So John McCain scuttled an Air Force scheme to lease tankers from Boeing in a sweetheart deal. And then he pressured the Air Force to open a competitive bid on its new tanker ...
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The sad thing is, people will still claim Saddam had operational ties to al-Qaeda. Because what is mere intelligence when compar
WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had a...
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Brigades Can't Be Advisors
FM 3-0 Operations establishes that Army brigades must be capable of conducting combat across the full spectrum of environments ranging from peacekeeping to counterinsurgency t...
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Extra! Extra! Cowardly peace-monger retires; glorious war on Iran to begin by June; American soldiers to be greeted as liberator
WASHINGTON — Adm. William J. Fallon, the top American commander in the Middle East whose views on Iran and other issues have seemed to put him at odds with the Bush administra...
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LTG Caldwell on the Daily Show
And speaking of the Daily Show, we here at Abu Muqawama thought they only interviewed over-exposed lieutenant colonels. But no! LTG William Caldwell was on the show last night...