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Skeptics Central
A Michael Gordon article in the NY Times today discusses the Army's new FM 3-0 Operations. Supposedly the manual gives equal weight to maneuver operations and stability operat...
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COIN in JHS 22
“You become a Hasid, you don’t think, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to suppress revolutions,’ ” Mr. Waronker said. But, he said, he drew on his military training as he tackled a schoo...
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Population-Centric Insurgency?
We often write about the way in which brutalities beget brutalities in war and how massacres can lead to tit-for-tat cycles of violence. But is the inverse true as well? When ...
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Counterinsurgent of the Day: Captain Brian von Kraus
One of Abu Muqawama's regular readers wrote in regarding yesterday's video of kids in Iraq going through Al-Qaeda training to say that what the kids were doing really didn't l...
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Does Sec. Gates Read This Blog?
Defense Secretary Gates is clearly on board for the big win in The Long War. If we here at Abu Muqawama had t-shirts, he'd totally wear one to work (possibly under his suit, ...
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More Complaints about IO
AM may be impressed by the US publishing a squirm-worthy video of pre-teen terrors. Kip is not so impressed. First, we (that is the institutional military) learn nothing. M...
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The Worst Case Scenario
Abu Muqawama was hanging out with T.X. Hammes today in London, and T.X. was kind enough to point Abu Muqawama toward some of that British advice Prince Andrew claims the Unite...
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Insurgent Kittens
Any man who monkeys around with a damn cat gets what he deserves as far as Abu Muqawama is concerned. But all the same, who knew they were playing an active role in the resist...
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Crane and Metz on COIN
[via Small Wars Journal] Conrad Crane, the chief author of FM 3-24, and Steven Metz, author of Rethinking Insurgency, are featured in a video discussion available on the U.S. ...
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More Troops to Afghanistan?
Call Abu Muqawama crazy, but here's what he sees as the biggest problem facing U.S. diplomats and public officials when they ask Europeans nations to contribute more troops to...
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Kafkaesque primaries
It's coming on 1230am at Charlie's house in DC. (She's back from her Super Tuesday nerdfest party awaiting results from California.) So far it's a good night for McCain fans...
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Four Stars for Odierno
LTG Ray Odierno has been nominated to be the U.S. Army's next vice chief of staff and to pin on his fourth star, the Washington Post reports. Good for him, and good for the U....
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Who's Bad? Paddy Ashdown, apparently.
And for today's most bizarre quote, here's Michael Williams of RUSI, commenting on Paddy Ashdown in the Christian Science Monitor: "Ashdown's a celebrity. He's the Michael Jac...
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6 February 1958
In Manchester, of course, the world has come to a stop. As the news comes through on this Thursday evening, factories close early. Tears are running down the red-brick walls o...
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1 2 3 Meme: Tag, We're It
Apparently we've figured out how to do chain letters in the blog-o-sphere. And since our friends at Afghanistanica and Kings of War have tagged us, we feel obligated to parta...
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Strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Just as the genocide in Darfur has refused to confine itself within the borders of the Sudan, but has now destabilised neighbouring Chad, so anything that happens in Pakistan ...
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Getting Things Right in Iraq ... Even in 2005
For those of you who followed last week's debate on Iraq strategy and tactics between Gian Gentile and Pete Mansoor, one of the things worth highlighting is that Gentile is, A...
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Super Duper Special Crazy Tuesday! Or, alternately, the 5th of February
Abu Muqawama steers clear of presidential politics on most days, but today is the closest thing the U.S. has to a national primary, and from what this blogger has seen, our de...
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Winning, But Not Won?
Many of our readers likely came across Max Boot's article this past week, arguing that we're winning the war in Iraq but that victory is only possible if we maintain troop str...
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Reverse Darwinism
The second bomber failed to detonate his explosive belt and was shot dead by a police officer, a police spokesman said. As insurgencies progress, the insurgents -- and the cou...