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Gentile vs. Petraeus
Gian Gentile is a gentleman and a scholar and a fine public servant, but it doesn't take David Galula to figure out that we here at Abu Muqawama have some serious disagreement...
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Dropping the Myth of Reciprocity
In an April 4 editorial, the NY Times editorial board writes of John C. Yoo's un-American memorandum justifying torture by the US military:His primary argument, in which he re...
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Recommended Movie: American Gangster
War among the people shares much in common with the everyday fight of police officers against gangs and narcotics. For those who wish a good, brief view of Social Network Anal...
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Strategic Failure in Afghanistan
Kip is constantly shocked to hear that we have no strategy in Afghanistan. After all, the Afghanistan Compact of 2006 explicitly lays out the goals and conditions of ongoing i...
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USIP: Iraq After the Surge
Looking for that new report on the options and questions for Iraq after the Surge? The one mentioned in the Washington Post today? Click here. And no, we haven't read it yet....
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Any of you guys speak American?
From Stathis Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil WarsBBC World Service's influential Focus on Africa evening news magazine relied on the commentary of Charles Taylor, the ...
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Earning their salaries, for once
Has anyone else noticed that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is in the middle of holding six hearings on Iraq in 10 days? Good on 'em, we say. Like soldiernolongerinira...
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Race and COIN
The Bateman guest-posts on Abu Muqawama today, offering this personal reflection on race and counter-insurgency... *** It occurred to me that some of the challenges we have fa...
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Jayhawks in the Finals!
That was the most painful 20 point win Charlie's ever seen. Leave it to KU to nearly blow a 28 point lead (when Roy said he'd left a piece of himself in Kansas, we didn't know...
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Democrats Try to Figure Out Iraq
A big stink has been caused by Eli Lake's article in the New York Sun on CNAS's plan for Iraq, which Abu Muqawama has read and which recommends a sensible policy of "condition...
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The Iraq Narrative(s)
Dave at Small Wars Journal encouraged everyone to read the article by Richard Kohn on the coming crisis in civil-military relations, and Abu Muqawama seconds Dave's recommenda...
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Tiny Insurgent?
First the boy stands at the door barking like a dog to be let outside. Then he dumps his dinner on the floor and proceeds on a hunger strike. This is followed by a bath in whi...
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Martin Luther King, RIP
Today is the anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It serves as a reminder that while we here at Abu Muqawama spend our time studying political ...
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Further proof the New York Times (and that unnamed Iraqi goverment official, of course) hate America and freedom
"[T]he ISF performed remarkably well, moving numerous units to Basra on short notice, establishing them in the city, engaging in hard fighting, and stopping only when Sadr cav...
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Hegghammer on Jihadi Studies
As some of you might have noticed, we here at Abu Muqawama put a lot of time and effort into our Counterinsurgency Reading List, which you can all access to the right. One of ...
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News Flash: Taliban on the Border
The Washington Post leads today with a story about how the Taliban apparently clusters around the Afghan-Pakistani border. Who knew?! This article could have been written anyt...
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Charlie Weighs In
[Excuse the violation of the AM style guide as I blog in the first person.] Well, AM seems to have stepped in a big steaming pile with his broadside against the Kagans and the...
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Al-Qaeda in Lebanon
For those of you who a) have an interest in transnational terror groups in Lebanon and b) read Arabic, you could do a lot worse than to check out the reporting of Fida' Itani,...
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This wouldn't be a problem if more Crimson Tide fans lived in Fayetteville
Okay, this is hilarious. (How is this related to COIN? Not by a lot, except you could probably draw a few lessons from this regarding population control.) You see, prison jump...
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What we knew and when we knew it
The New York Times has a nice peek into the "planning" that preceded that goat rodeo in Basra last week.Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker first learned of the Iraqi plan on Friday, M...