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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
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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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All Abu Muqawama wants for Christmas ...
... is this book....
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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!)...
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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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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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MAGTF's rule
Charlie hopes that the proposal to move Marine units out of Anbar province and re-orient the Corps to Afghanistan sparks some serious debate. It's both controversial and poten...
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Charlie is sorry...
...sorry that Abu Muqawama missed the only back-to-back homers from Manny and Ortiz this season. Love that dirty water! And she would have enjoyed the game more if Abu Muqawam...
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Divided Loyalties
My goodness, what on Earth is Abu Muqawama going to do? Scotland in quarterfinals of the World Cup, the Red Sox in the ALDS, and both games on at the same damn time. He's just...
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Afghanistan: Sending a Message
Now, this is what Abu Muqawama likes to see. Abu Muqawama has long said he doesn't really mind the British pulling out of Iraq as long as they beef up their presence in Afghan...
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Hitchens
Charlie isn't sure how Abu Muqawama feels about Christopher Hitchens, but she's always been rather conflicted about him. Is he the most irritating ex-pat British commentator ...
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The Church of Baseball
Well, the Sox announced their presence with authority on Wednesday. The Yanks? Not so much. (Maybe they should try breathing through their eyelids.) And while Charlie does...
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More on books...
While I'm at it... The flip side of the reading list below might be a compilation of books that an interested civilian would read in order to better understand the military. ...
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Books-A-Million
Does the much maligned field of Political Science have anything to offer practitioners or analysts of counter-insurgency? My Marine colleagues would be quick to say no and go...
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Charlie calls the ball...
Abu Muqawama's alter ego is otherwise occupied for a few days, so frequent reader Charlie has the ball until his return. Her nearly finished PhD is in political science, not ...