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What would Abu Muqawama do if not for il-muwamaraat?
The idea that the U.S. would want permanent or semi-permanent bases in Lebanon is silly -- for all the reasons mentioned previously by this blogger. And while Abu Muqawama doe...
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"US Out How?" in Mother Jones
For those readers interested in light weekend reading, look no further this special issue of Mother Jones. Yes, that's right, Mother Jones, erstwhile opponent of the Iraq War...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Reducing Nuclear Threats and Preventing Nuclear TerrorismThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the National Security Advisory Group (NSAG) for a panel discussion on the recently published paper on a new comprehensive ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Gates to Conway: No Dice
From Inside Defense (via Small Wars Journal blog):Defense Secretary Robert Gates today shot down Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway's proposal to shift Marines from Iraq to A...
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Beckett ... Oh, Josh Beckett
Don't blame us if we ever doubt youYou know we couldn't live without youRed Sox, you are the only only only...
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Accountability
Abu Muqawama has not had much nice to say about the U.S. Air Force recently, so it's important to note when they get something right. Yesterday, they did: The Air Force has de...
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New Strategy Blog
As you all know, Abu Muqawama is written by two youngish folks who focus almost exclusively on counterinsurgency theory and tactics as well as some larger issues relating to t...
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Resign, Retire, Renounce
Fred Kaplan returns to his bread and butter of civil-military relations, with a sober assessment of the options of dissenting senior officers faced with a possible war against...
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Anthropologists at War ... with Themselves
Abu Muqawama enjoyed a long conversation with an academic colleague yesterday regarding the ethics of conducting research in the social sciences in the service of national end...
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Department of "Better Late than Never"
"The University of Chicago Press, publisher of scholarly works since 1891, just filled a rush order for a third 5,000-copy printing of 'Instructions for American Servicemen in...
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U.S. Air Base in Lebanon
A reader sent this story along, which Abu Muqawama had seen in as-Safir, a decidedly anti-U.S. (Angry Arab prefers "independent, leftist") newspaper, today.* (Arabic) The fol...
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Meeting Resistance
The New York Times links to a video op-ed by Steve Connors and Molly Bingham on the insurgency in Iraq during the early phases of the war. Abu Muqawama has met and spoken with...
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Advice from Charlie to RSN
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12 Army Captains
First it was seven Army sergeants. Now it's twelve Army captains. Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in...
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Another Reason to Hate the Air Force?
Don Rumsfeld had it all wrong. He famously said, "you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want." But that's not true: we all go to war with the military...
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You're messin' up the rotation: Puff, Puff, Give! Puff, Puff, Give!
How much fun do you think Nic Blanford had researching this article? Bekaa Valley, Lebanon - Ali plucks a sprig of the cannabis sativa plant and sniff...
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Sorry, GOP ...
... but torture still doesn't work. Abu Muqawama doesn't mean to get all partisan today, but those of you who read this blog regularly know that Abu Muqawama went through the ...
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Beyond Iraq: Speech by GEN James T. Conway
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted a lunchtime speech by US Marine Corps Commandant General James T. Conway on October 15, 2007 at the Willard InterContinent...
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Blackwater Air
Goodness me. Afghanistan Watch and afghanistanica have posted the in-flight voice recorder transcript to a Blackwater-piloted flight that killed three U.S. soldiers in Afghani...
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All you need to know about COIN in tribal areas...
... the great Colonel McCallister has squeezed into a pamphlet. 72 pages, folks. Short enough for even a Marine to read. (Thanks, Small Wars Journal!)...