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You've Been Selected for an ETT
[One of the best parts about Charlie's job is the hilariously cynical email she occasionally receives from the field.] Dear Army Soldier: Congratulations! You have been select...
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The Air Force says COIN, what COIN? We charge by the billion, thank you very much.
For a brief moment, Kip thought the Air Force had made a turn around, a brief nod to civilian control, a nod to warfare in the 21ST Century. How wrong I was... Remember, ladie...
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A Marriage Made in Heaven?
Princeton is providing its new students with a fully structured "gap year" (which kind of defeats the purpose, by the way). Proponents of the year off say it allows students ...
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AFRICOM, Spectacular Flop
It may be difficult to imagine Matt Damon in a Hamburg mosque. It might be more difficult to imagine AFRICOM in, say, Africa. That AFRICOM will be in Germany represents a spe...
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Honey, pack up your Ivy League J.D. and give notice to the boss cuz we're moving to Watertown
Lost in the hubbub over the admittedly ridiculous emo-boy picture accompanying that article in the Kansas City Star on John Nagl was this quote: Why is the Army having such a ...
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The Sentinel
Abu Muqawama was searching around the Combating Terrorism Center site and noticed Gen. Wayne Downing passed away last summer while Abu Muqawama was in Morocco. Man, if we had ...
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Iraq Workshop: Voices from the Field with Thomas Ricks
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Fred Kaplan puts Kip's name in lights!
Kip's hit the big time, giving your favorite blog one of its biggest mainstream media pick-ups in recent memory. Fred Kaplan picked up Kip's screed from last week regarding n...
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Today's offering from the Nietzsche Family Circus sums up our hopes precisely
I welcome that a more manly, a warlike,age is about to begin, an age which, aboveall, will give honor to valor once again....
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Try to imagine Matt Damon's character from the Good Shepherd infiltrating a mosque in Hamburg
Official cover worked well for the duration of the Cold War, when holding a job at a U.S. Embassy enabled American spies to make contact with Soviet officials and other commun...
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Is it Time for the Spring Offensive Already?
Two big bombings in two days in Kandahar province:A suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed 35 civilians at a busy market in southern Afghanistan, a pol...
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Are the Marines really coming around on MTTs?
Charlie keeps a close eye on the musings of the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Mostly because, in her informed opinion, he just doesn't get it. But, as with LTG Odierno, it...
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Hassan Nasrallah is Comin' for YOU!
Folks in Israel are pretty much done celebrating the death of Imad Mughniyeh and are now preparing for the inevitable backlash. That backlash was the subject of an op-ed in to...
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Kip's Reader Caption Contest
Alleged battalion commander LTC John Nagl appears this week in an early eulogy to his Army career in the Kansas City Star (thanks Charlie). Will the COIN temple stand? Kip wi...
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A Paradox of Pax Americana
Two articles in the NY Times in the past month on weddings, of all things, reveal an unintentional and difficult paradox of a cultural Pax Americana: 1) those exposed to a Wes...
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It's confirmed: Barca love freedom; Real Madrid son islamo-fascistas
Heroic Freedom Fighter Cowardly Islamist Terrorists Abu Muqawama just saw this picture (top) of an Iraqi tribal militiaman -- one of America's allies in Iraq (for the moment) ...
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Seriously? A Headrest Bomb?
According to Israeli intelligence sources, someone had replaced the headrest of the driver’s seat with another containing a small high-explosive charge. Israel welcomed his de...
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Moral Courage, Definition of
TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, in the final days of the Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.’s Tehran station chief, Tom Ahern, faced his principal interrogator for the last time. The int...
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Abu Muqawama's Week in Review
Another good week here at Abu Muqawama. For those of you who missed the highlights and fireworks, here they are: Monday: COIN Markets Tuesday: War and Film Wednesday: Security...
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Lee Smith on the Pax Americana, Ali Hashem on Imad Mughniyeh
Drawing from opposite ends of the political spectrum in a bid to confuse our readers is a hallmark of this blog, and today we have two offerings for you. First up is Lee Smith...