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Worse than a Crime: CIA Interrogation Program
Intrepid reporter Spencer, newly ensconced at the Washington Independent, has a deeply reported story about the origins of the CIA's post 9/11 interrogation program. For thos...
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Co-opting al-Qaeda in Yemen
Abu Muqawama failed to link to the Guardian's obituary of George Habash yesterday, which he damn well should have done because it just figures that David Hirst -- fluent in Ar...
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The IDF's Alarm Clock?
Can Israelis Learn from Hassan Nasrallah? That's what Guy Bechor thinks. (Thanks, TG) We should also be thanking Nasrallah for teaching us his psychological warfare tactics: A...
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Everything Must Go!
Charlie doesn't know how many Quantico based Marines (or civilians) we have as readers, but you should all know about the fire sale going on over at the Marine Corps Associati...
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NYC Road Trip!
Charlie just bought her tickets to see George Packer's new play, Betrayed. It's based on his searing New Yorker article about the plight of Iraqi interpreters (an issue that ...
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The U.S. Air Force Declares War! (On the Army, the Marines, and the Navy)
Good to know that with the U.S. locked into two ground battles with Islamist insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Air Force doesn't take its eye off the ball: the budg...
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George Habash is Dead
Regular readers of this blog know we avoid the Israel-Palestine conflict like no one's business. Unless there are tactical lessons to be drawn from the experiences of either t...
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Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
Parag Khanna is so freaking smart. You know when you meet people and walk away thinking, Damn, I can spend the rest of my life in a library or traveling the world and still no...
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What Abu Muqawama's Readers Are Reading ... besides, uh, you know, this blog
About once a month, Abu Muqawama will sift through all the mail his readers send to the abumuqawama[at]hotmail.com email address. A few things of note, worth passing along: Ha...
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You Tube Mobile
A couple days ago, YouTube announced the release of a new version of You Tube Mobile that will allow access to You Tube over 3G networks for over 100,000,000 phones. In additi...
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This Republic of Suffering
Americans had never endured anything like the losses they suffered between 1861 and 1865 and have experienced nothing like them since. Two percent of the United States populat...
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Vital Garments
New clothing designed by Smartex may have significant use in the COIN fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. In an article in Wired, Sally McGrane tells us about this new wonderstuff:...
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Private Military Companies in Iraq: No Solution in Sight
With even more U.S. contractors now in Iraq and Afghanistan than U.S. military personnel, government officials told Congress yesterday that the Bush administration is not prep...
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SOS, Different Day
It just never stops...BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An explosion apparently targeting a police official rocked a Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Friday, killing at least six peo...
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Entertaining Policies
As I sit somewhere in the former Soviet Union, I long for a simpler world of mutual destruction where Colin Gray is relevant and congressmen still know how to party. Longing c...
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File Under: Good Money after Bad
Following AM's skeptical lead, Charlie's less than certain that more US troops and money will stem the tide in Pakistan.The enhanced cooperation will include U.S. military ass...
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COIN in India
Charlie had an opportunity today to take part in a good conversation on counter-insurgency operations in India (a subject on which Charlie nearly wrote her dissertation). It'...
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Skelton calls for Key West II
Once upon a time, the Air Force belonged to the Army. Those were the days. Kidding! (Well, mostly.) The accord that sorted out the many overlapping missions of the Army, N...
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Israel and Hizbollah: The Propaganda War
Abu Muqawama has been thinking a lot recently about propaganda, information operations, and the new media. Cue Nick Blanford, who has an e-article up on NOW Lebanon on the min...
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Today's Clausewitz Quotation, Courtesy of Thomas
Is not war merely another kind of writing and language for political thoughts? Chapter 6, Book VIII, On War...