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Cell phones and Mass
Kip became a member of the AM blogging team entirely on false pretenses, I now realize. In the beginning, this Iraq/Afghan veteran came to AM and Charlie and said he would be ...
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Malcolm Nance on Basra
What is a day at Abu Muqawama without at least passing reference to the mess in Basra? Malcolm Nance provides today's analysis via the indispensable Small Wars Journal. Malcol...
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Live-blogging Rhod-- er, sorry, Zimbabwe
Also on the Guardian website is a blog covering the very latest on the elections in Zimbabwe. What does this have to do with counter-insurgency? Well, if anything, the struggl...
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Arab (dis)Unity
Iam Black, who has covered the Middle East for The Guardian for quite some time and almost as well as his predecessor David Hirst, has a nice piece up on Comment Is Free on Ar...
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USAF: And by "fly" we mean use this joystick...
From Danger Room: How bad do they need drones in Iraq and Afghanistan? So bad, the Air Force is yanking pilots out of old-school planes, and sticking them on drone duty, inste...
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Week in Review (late & lazy edition)
Good god it was a busy week here at the world famous Abu Muqawama. So busy that Charlie can't be bothered to format the Week in Review. Mostly, we talked about Basra. Also, O...
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Educating Interpreters
In war among the people, the ability to communicate is perhaps the most important skill. Yet the US military remains woefully unable to speak the languages of the areas in whi...
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Never Leave a Fallen Comrade
The Department of Defense confirmed today that SGT Keith Maupin's remains have been identified in Iraq. It is a sad conclusion to a terrible saga for his family. Three other s...
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Iraq: Still an Insurgency?
Here's a question for the class: is the Iraq War still a counter-insurgency? Not too long ago, a very smart friend of this blog with years of experience in Iraq since 2003 wro...
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1776 and all that...
Andrew Exum received permission from the gang at Abu Muqawama to re-visit some of the debate we had vis-a-vis British COIN in the Colonies in Abu Muqawama's favorite British n...
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McCain on National Service
Say what you want about Sen. John McCain's policies, but speeches like this give Charlie serious goose bumps.“Like most people, when I reflect on the adventures and joys of yo...
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Idle Basra Speculation
Certified smaht guy Colin Kahl writes in to explain events in Basra so Charlie doesn't have to (though, really, AM has done a bang up job on the explanation front so far).The ...
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East Tennessee: Now 100% Anti-Mohammedan
Abu Muqawama was reading his hometown newspaper this afternoon and came across an email sent in from a local reader concerned about the Barack Obama candidacy:The main reason ...
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The next person who emails Charlie...
...and says,1) "The Jayhawks are a lock for the Final Four,"or2) "I'm sure you dissertation will turn out fine" will be kicked in the teeth. Don't you people understand how ji...
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St. Dismas: Radical 1st-Century Insurgent?
Abu Muqawama was reading the religion section of the Washington Post today:When Deacon Ken Finn is counseling prisoners, he often tells the story of Saint Dismas. "He was the...
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"9-11 to the Arsenal!"
Is anyone out there surprised that Osama bin Laden is an Arsenal supporter? It just figures....
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Meeting the Guerrilla
Canada's Globe and Mail has this week released a report on the Taliban entitled "Talking to the Taliban" in which its Kandahar correspondent Graeme Smith interprets interviews...
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Two Conservative Views of McCain's Foreign Policy
Following Abu Muqawama's controversial declaration that Barack Obama's combined plan for Iraq and Afghanistan was more responsible than John McCain's (Obama, alone, has a real...
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"There is nothing preventing Iraq from going right back to October 2006"
Karen DeYoung's article in the Washington Post nicely captures two things: One, how tenuous a situation we have right now in Iraq, and how the gains of 2007 can be wiped out f...
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"We either survive this or we are finished."
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has a valuable telephone interview with JAM commanders in Basra up on the Guardian's website: Shiek Ali al-Sauidi, a prominent member of the Moqtada al-Sadr...