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COIN Academy Library--UPDATE
Thanks so much to all the readers who have contributed to the COIN Academy Library in Afghanistan. So far, over 75 books have been purchased! And Charlie is told that many h...
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Manliness
Does the mustache make the man? Does it make them more manly? Dan Helmer thinks so. Here's his recommendation for his mentor and mine, John Nagl. Of course, they'll both ha...
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Random Readings
Here's a handful of articles that have passed through Charlie's inbox in the last few days. Ralph Peters, Dishonest Doctrine (AFJ). Read Ralph's latest screed so Charlie does...
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Bombing in Algiers
The NYT is reporting that at least 45 people have been killed in car bombings in Algiers today: Two car bombs exploded in close succession in the Algerian capital today, killi...
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Iran and COIN
Ever true to form, Stephen Peter Rosen writes on the new Middle East Strategy at Harvard blog that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program as a response to the US invasion ...
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"We are the irreverance"
Yesterday, your faithful bloggers had a chance to get a good update on how things were going in Afghanistan these days. The talk was officially "off the record," so we're not...
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Abu Muqawama, in DC
Abu Muqawama writes this post from Charlie's office.* We're about to head to the Afghanistan event as soon as she's done with a meeting. Abu Muqawama is sick with a wicked hea...
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Gates to USMC: No Afghanistan for you!
Sorry Marines, you're staying in Anbar:Senior Pentagon and military officials said today that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has decided against a proposal for shifting Ma...
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Midweek Announcements
Hey, folks, Abu Muqawama wants to bring a few things to your attention: 1. Abu Muqawama will be traveling for the next week, so his posting will be light. Charlie, meanwhile, ...
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New Middle East Strategy Blog at Harvard
Allow Abu Muqawama to point your way toward Harvard's new Middle East Strategy blog, run by Stephen P. Rosen and Martin Kramer. Rosen and Kramer are both members of Team Giuli...
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Pssssssssss......
That's the sound of all the air escaping from the beltway's War on Iran balloon. Update: Charlie, here. There's a fair amount of tea leaf reading going on about when the NIE...
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Feltman on Lebanon II
Boy, the Washington Institute sure picked the wrong day to issue its new report exploring joint U.S.-Israeli options for war on Iran, eh? Can anyone out there honestly see how...
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Cholera: A Microscopic Insurgent?
War and sickness are inextricably intertwined. Large groups of men living at close quarters on scant sleep are perfect carriers. Indeed, microbes have had a larger effect on t...
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Ethnic Cleansing: Lessons from the Balkans
Last week, Abu Muqawama had a lengthy post on the difficulties U.S. commanders in Iraq will face when internally displaced persons return to their homes in Baghdad and try to ...
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Paddy Ashdown to Afghanistan?
The Financial Times is reporting that Paddy Ashdown is being considered for the role of UN-NATO special envoy to Afghanistan in the hopes that he'll bring some much-needed foc...
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COIN Academy Reading List
Small Wars Journal and your blogging team here at Abu Muqawama recently commented on the formation of the new U.S. Army Counterinsurgency (COIN) Academy in Afghanistan. We wer...
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The Army Makes a Fool of Itself ... Monday Edition
Abu Muqawama hates when stories like this make the news over here on the other side of the pond. He wants someone in Washington to just wave a magic wand and make them go away...
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John Kifner, back in Lebanon
Say what you want about the New York Times, but back in the dark old days of the Lebanese Civil War, John Kifner, their correspondent there, was a legend. Sure, he didn't go o...
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COIN Book Club, No. 5
This week's edition of the COIN Book Club is another work of fiction: The Quiet American, by Graham Greene. Charlie will admit to this being one of her favorite books of all t...
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A New Kind of Tribal Warfare in Afghanistan
One of Abu Muqawama's readers sent along this Wall Street Journal article on the U.S. in Afghanistan. Ten bucks says this Capt. John Gibson is the same guy with whom Abu Muqaw...