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Insurgency Research Group Blog
The Insurgency Research Group at King's College London has a new blog. It has been duly added to the links on the right....
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One more word about Northern Ireland...
Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely recently stated that "all insurgencies are sui generis," meaning that all insurgencies take place within a specific social, cultural, histo...
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Keep me English to my dying day: No surrender, no surrender, no surrender to the IRA
Fouad Ajami, one of the earliest and most strident backers of the Iraq War, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Iraq entitled 'No Surrender.' That title -- and the op-e...
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Free Speech for Officers
Larry Korb and Phil Carter, two left-of-center defense intellectuals, are debating whether or not military officers have or should have complete freedom of speech over on the ...
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March Madness
Readers of this blog can check Abu Muqawama's NCAA bracket at the Washington Post Tourney Tracker. It's saved under the name "AbuMuqawama" but isn't terribly inventive. Abu Mu...
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello
Abu Muqawama thinks that the situation in Iraq really began to nosedive in April 2004, when Fallujah melted down and the Shia insurrection started in the south. Our friend Y....
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Deterring Terror
When Abu Muqawama first saw this article in the New York Times about U.S. efforts to adopt a deterrence strategy toward terror groups, he thought it was the most ridiculous th...
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Reining in the Arab Media
Arab Media & Society has a special online feature covering the new regulations passed by the wise Arab rulers to prevent networks like al-Jazeera from saying anything cont...
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Scions of the Surge
We haven't yet blogged on the Newsweek articles about how Iraq and Afghanistan are changing the U.S. Army's officer corps, but until we do, you guys should at least read both ...
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This post has nothing to do with counter-insurgency
As Abu Muqawama gets older he's getting more and more like his old man, tearing up at the cheesiest stories and anecdotes. Today it was the end of Barack Obama's speech. John ...
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21st Century Conflict
What does conflict look like in the 21st Century? Kind of like this.... Wouldn't it have been useful to learn about this in the 1990s instead of seeing it as a distraction to ...
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Exum on Learning the Right Lessons from 2006
Right on cue, the new March edition of the U.S. Military Academy Combating Terrorism Center's Sentinel has been published and is on their website. Why do you need to read this...
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Highly Successful?
Abu Muqawama has been reading the Matt Matthews monograph on the 2006 war this afternoon. It is quite good, and we can recommend it. But one thing bothers Abu Muqawama. Matthe...
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Happy St. Patrick's Day
The Guardian has a special week-long report on the way the Irish Insurgency of 1966-1998 (aka The Troubles) ended....
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Matt Matthews on the 2006 War
Attention, readers: Matt Matthews has published his long-awaited report on the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbollah. You no doubt remember the awesome interview Matthews cond...
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Yes, you did. No, I didn't. Yes. You. Did.
Briefly, is there any good will remaining between L. Paul Bremer and the Bush Administration? Jerry says he didn't dismantle the Iraqi Army. Everyone else, meanwhile, says he ...
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Old Maps
Abu Muqawama has been away for the past several days at a COIN conference held at Wilton Park. Although all of the presentations were delivered under Chatham House rules and t...
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Week in Review: Selection Sunday Edition!
[hums quietly: it's the most wonderful time...of the year!] Here's this week's highlights; stick around for some roundball trash talking in the weeks to come. (Sorry about t...
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COIN Book Club, No. 7
For our 7th Book Club, guest contributor Tom Ricks has graciously permitted his fans at Abu Muqawama to reprint his review of Piers Mackesy's "The War of American 1775-1783," ...
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Olympic Hurdles
Whoever becomes the master of a city accustomed to freedom, and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed himself; because, when there is a rebellion, such a city justif...