Articles & Multimedia
Showing 8821-8840 of 9196 Publications
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
But what will happen this summer?
[via Slate] Early in the afternoon, unknown assailants fired shots into the demonstration. The protesters claim either that the army opened fire or that snipers in Ain Roumman...
-
Post Another One For the Insurgents
An underdog team beats the undefeated New England cheaters in a prolonged struggle through the fourth quarter. Neither a Manning nor a Brady fan, but happy to see that New Eng...
-
Bob Bateman's Combat Trauma Bibliography
[via Small Wars Journal] Combat trauma, in the abstract, is something about which Bob Bateman knows a lot. (LTC Bateman is a combat veteran himself, but his interest in combat...
-
Musharraf the Menace
“Al-Qaeda does not exist in Pakistan any more … We have shattered and eliminated their command system there.” – Pervez Musharraf, 2005 How many times have we heard that? Hones...
-
And for today's heart-warming story from Iraq...
Abu Muqawama was reading the Economist's review of Marc Sageman's new book yesterday when he came across this passage (which also refers to Daniel Byman's new book): Both auth...
-
Lazy Sunday Reading ... and Tesco Value Lager-Swilling Surrender Monkeys
We here at Abu Muqawama had another great week of high reader figures, which is especially nice as we will be celebrating our one-year anniversary this coming week. When Abu M...
-
Scotland Are Rubbish ... And the Very Best of Last Week
Let's just say that by the end of the match, Abu Muqawama's friend Jamie was trying to figure out some way in which New Zealand is actually a lost colony of Scotland whereby w...
-
WTF, Giants Win?
To quote the irascible TX Hammes: sell everything, convert your dollars to gold, and move to Montana. (But before you go: dig up the numbers of all those girls who told you th...
-
The Debate To Which You Should Be Paying Attention
Gang, the most important debate this past week was not the one between McCain and Romney or the one between Obama and Clinton. The most important debate this week was the deba...
-
McCallister Responds
Seems Afghanistanica hit a nerve. Mac McCallister reponds to his criticism (via SWJ): I take great pains not to advertise this model as a predictive tool in the sense that Afg...
-
Afghan Study Group: The Wheels Done Come Off
WASHINGTON -- The international effort to stabilize Afghanistan is faltering and urgently needs thousands of additional U.S. and coalition troops, an influential group of Amer...
-
Winograd Special at Middle East Progress
Middle East Progress, a project of the Center for American Progress, has a special newsletter this week compiling analysis on the Winograd Commission's report into Israeli per...
-
Newsflash: Violence in Africa
Kip has long believed that the US military ignores Africa at its peril. The colonial legacies, the cornucopia of failed states, meaningless borders between countries, myriad e...
-
Mansoor and Gentile on SWJ
As CK and Abu Aardvark have both pointed out to your blogging team, there's a pretty heated (and intelligent) debate going down on the Small Wars Journal message boards on cou...
-
Londoners Spend More on a Month on Public Transportation Than These Guys Do on Rockets...
It's a long journey through the pitch-dark night as the taxi heads towards the secret rocket factory in the Gaza Strip. Since Abdul and his two friends got in, it has become a...
-
Waterboardin' USA
The number of regular Americans who have waterboarded themselves is small. Some do it out of curiosity, some as a prank. All are voluntarily experimenting with something the U...
-
A Monolithic Pashtunwali?
A quick note on the ongoing discussions about engaging the tribes in Pakistan and Afghanistan: Much I have seen written in the press and by military authors on the tribal code...