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Khalass!
Happy Thanksgiving Day, America! Or, as we call it in London and Beirut, "Thursday." Yesterday's post was all about U.S. policy toward Lebanon, and Abu Muqawama mentioned poll...
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Beirut is Not Tehran
Abu Muqawama has not posted much on Lebanon recently, but that's not because that troubled little country isn't on his mind. Much of his time in the library these days, in fac...
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WTF is wrong with the USMC?
So Abu Muqawama's cousin is graduating from Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in a few days, and the family -- which, being from East Tennessee, encourages all martial end...
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Once again, the liberal mainstream media refuses to report on all the good news coming out of Iraq
The security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. Days now pass without a car bomb, after a high of 44 in the city in February. The number of bodies appearing on Baghd...
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CSIS Report on U.S. Aid to Pakistan
Nate Fick sent this well-timed report along. Abu Muqawama imagines it will be much-referenced within the beltway in the coming weeks, as it breaks down U.S. strategy toward an...
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Yet another book Abu Muqawama has to read on top of the 356 others
This looks great, though. Seriously. afghanistanica has more......
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U.S. to Train Pakistani Tribesmen
Abu Muqawama is not entirely sure why this report warrants the coverage the New York Times is giving it:WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — A new and classified American military proposal o...
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Checking joint blocks
There's a great debate going on in the comments on Abu Muqawama's post on General Petraeus's role in the next GO selection board (Instapundit, Blackfive, and SWJ also have the...
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The Marlboro Marine, Revisited
Remember the iconic photograph of the Marine in Fallujah smoking a Marlboro cigarette? The one that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize? Boy, has the Observer got one hell o...
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Clausewitz [hearts] Sarah Chayes
In the end, after three days of fighting, the Taliban were not crushed in the jaws of a closing trap, as we had been led to expect. They executed a disciplined, fighting withd...
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Bernard Fall profile
Charlie is a sucker for good profile writing, but this profile of Bernard Fall got to her worse than most. Maybe it's just the subtitle:Bernard Fall loved his wife, but his h...
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Petraeus Picks the Next Generation
Abu Muqawama woke up this morning to an email from the editors of Small Wars Journal calling attention to this article in the Washington Post on a development he thinks has th...
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COIN Book Club, No. 3
Those who were interested in counter-insurgency prior to, say, 2003 or 2004 often found used books to be a topic of conversation. Anyone have a copy of A Savage War of Peace?...
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Has Wilayati Gone Mad?
A few nights ago, Abu Muqawama went out for a pint with his neighbors, two young Spaniards working in London their first year out of university. One of them, whose English isn...
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Management of Savagery
In working on a set of terrorism seminars, Charlie recently came across the treasure trove of al Qaeda documents housed by West Point's Combating Terrorism Center. Two public...
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Abu Muqawama salutes any man who has his assets frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department and keeps his sense of humor
"They are welcome to all the money I have in America. Rice should take half of it to improve the way she looks. She should have her teeth straightened and her face fixed, and ...
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State Dept. Backs Down ... Not Really
The State Department will not order diplomats to serve in Iraq. Those 48 slots they needed filling have been filled with volunteers (God bless their souls). The State Departme...
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As if Abu Muqawama needed another reason to hate the Guardian
In the wake of the IAEA's announcement that Iran might be able to begin building a nuclear warhead within a year, the Guardian's headline reads: Decision time for the U.S. Rea...
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Abu Muqawama's friends are wicked smaht
Two of Abu Muqawama's favorite bloggers have reason to cheer: First, Charles Levinson over at Conflict Blotter has a piece up in the new Arab Reform Bulletin on governance in ...
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A Suicide Epidemic?
Abu Muqawama was reading Le Monde of all newspapers when he came across a story on an "épidémie de suicides" among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. He tracked down the original ...