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Terror and the Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor (America's highest military honor) was awarded 124 times during World War I and 464 times during World War II. It was awarded 246 times during the Vietnam C...
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COIN in Afghanistan: Theory and Practice
Abu Muqawama appreciates the space the New York Times has been giving to Roger Cohen on its online op-ed page, which means readers get to hear views on foreign affairs not pen...
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Sox Win, Sox Win!!
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File Under: The reason Abu Muqawama is still up at 4:00 in the morning
Pedroia , you ****ing beauty. Update: Bring on the Rockies....
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Problems for Pakistan
Abu Muqawama is under the mistaken impression that Charlie knows something about strategy (he has no such misconceptions regarding her knowledge of tactics). To the extent th...
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Does Gen. Conway really not get it?
[Serious COIN / USMC inside baseball follows; actual baseball fans should go here instead.] Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Conway, spoke at the Center for a New Am...
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The PKK: Crazy? Or Crazy Like a Fox?
ISTANBUL, Oct. 21 — At least 12 Turkish soldiers were killed in an ambush by Kurdish militants shortly after midnight on Sunday, in an audacious attack that sharply increased ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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