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Behind the Pause
The case for temporarily halting the reductions was endorsed Monday by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who had previously voiced hope for greater reductions to ease the eno...
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Learn to Drive!!
Many of you who don't live in DC, and don't know Charlie, may think she leads an exciting, glamorous life. You'd be wrong on many counts, not the least of which is that her ...
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Imad Mughniyeh is Dead
Imad Mughniyeh has been killed one day before the anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri. Lebanon is so %$&*ed... Andrew Exum has more on Harvard's Middle East S...
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War and Film
Charlie loves teaching, which is handy when you're a professor. She got to spend the morning watching and discussing Twelve O'Clock High with some young lieutenants. This co...
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Unintended Consequences of Threatening to Withdrawal
Kip became a skeptic of continued involvement in Iraq during his tour in the country. And in the past several years, he quietly applauded those politicians who threatened to ...
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Peaceful Insurgency?
Kip has always been more interested in irregular warfare than insurgency, per se (just as another day he'll go into why he hates the word "counterinsurgency," even as one of i...
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Small Wars Journal: The Magazine
Allegedly, this blog is meant to be a resource for folks wanting to learn more about counterinsurgency. So there's really no excuse or reason why we have not done a better job...
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“Kill them all.”
afghanistanica periodically stoops to our level and highlights something COIN-related from Afghanistan's past or present. Today he tells the story of Colonel Sergei Antonenko,...
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Trouble in Timor
Two daring attacks were made today by rebels in East Timor, heart of Australia and New Zealand's own prolonged COIN campaign. The President of East Timor is now in an induced ...
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Psychology Today explains...
...soldier slang. On the heels of Bob Bateman's recent posts for Small Wars Journal on combat trauma, this is really interesting. A sample: Lightening the ...
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Morning Plenary Session: "We Have No %$#@ing Clue What We're Doing"
Charlie just pointed out to us the name of the current NATO conference: “The World in Disarray — Shifting Powers, Lack of Strategies.” Well, at least we're honest....
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A Problem with the President? Or the Presidency?
Ann Marlowe, who most of us remember from her attack on Montgomery McFate and David Kilcullen in the Weekly Standard, is wrong if she really thinks the counterinsurgency campa...
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Hooah and Rock Chalk!
Phil Carter highlights a new program between the Army and Charlie's beloved alma mater: the Wounded Warrior Education Initiative.At a press conference yesterday, SecArmy Pete...
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NATO at Twilight; and a Warning on Pakistan
Two op-eds worth highlighting quickly before we forget: One, Andrew Bachevich writes NATO's eulogy in the L.A. Times. Once the Soviet threat disappeared, the European nations...
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Classifying Criticism
Kip has much to say about how stupid classification hurts counterinsurgency efforts (another day), but an NY Times article points out our rush to classify criticism. The Rand ...
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Markets of COIN
Effective human intelligence is the cornerstone of effective counterinsurgency. The Army and Marine Corps have dealt with the need for effective human intelligence by declari...
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Week in Review: Best of the Best
We'll make you better. Highlights from AM last week:Saturday: Abu Muqawama: One Year Later Friday: Skeptics Central Thursday: More Complaints about IO Wednesday: More Tr...
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Charlie's Weekend Notes
Charlie's back from a whirlwind weekend in NYC, though her recovery may continue a bit longer (there are vague memories of holding seminar in a bar with West Point cadets, a b...
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Insurgent Diaries ... and the IO Campaign
Kip and Abu Muqawama are at odds with respect to the job the U.S. is doing in the information campaign. We both think the military has done a crummy job in the IO fight since ...
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The Professional
Sometimes we here at Abu Muqawama are guilty of black-and-white characterizations that don't really provide the nuance our readers have come to expect on the issues, and for t...