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The Economics of Assassination
Many of you didn't like what Yossi Melman had to say yesterday with respect to targeted killings. Abu Muqawama didn't actually think what he was arguing was all that controver...
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The Valley Without Joy
Elizabeth Rubin has written the best piece of English-language war reporting from Afghanistan in the last year and possibly of the war. It's excellence forgives a story held s...
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A Terrible Idea
Aviation Week & Space Technology (sorry, Kip can't link to this one) reported today that Ike Skelton is seeking to get the US a three-star command in Afghanistan. The cha...
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No Better Time than Now...For the Navy
While the Air Force has responded to the current operational environment by stonewalling change, the Navy has embraced it. In a multimillion-dollar television, radio and onlin...
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Melman on Assassination as a Tactic
Israel’s experience shows that assassination – or what Israel terms "targeted killing" – is a double-edged sword. The policy only pays off in a few special cases. When a state...
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The PKK Took My Baby Away
We here at Abu Muqawama have kinda forgotten to mention the fact that Turkey has gone to war against PKK insurgents across the border in northern Iraq. Turkish forces crossed ...
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Imad Mughniyeh Hated the Sawx Too
Kip has been trying to bait Abu Muqawama into writing more about Imad Mughniyeh, sending him posts where people claim Mughniyeh was behind everything from the 9/11 bombings to...
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AM Week in Review - Feb 16-23 and Caption Winner Declared
For those of you who missed it, here is a selection of AM's best of the week: Monday - Hassan Nasrallah is Comin' For YouTuesday - Honey, Pack up your Ivy League J.D. and give...
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Captain Kearney's Quagmire
We here at Abu Muqawama have a vague division of labor: Charlie covers the Marines, AM gets the Levant, Kip does Afghanistan, and we all make fun of the Air Force. As a result...
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The Silly Season is Here Early
Abu Muqawama famously stays out of U.S. presidential politics most days, but he needs to add a little belated clarification for his bi-partisan readership, who had probably ju...
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Frozen Bits
An article in today's NY Times makes clear just how fragile our information security can be.But they said they had proved that so-called Trusted Computing hardware, an industr...
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Random Saturday Musings
Abu Muqawama was reading The Times of London yesterday and came across this amusing observation from Eddie Izzard on one of Abu Muqawama's favorite films, The Great Escape: “A...
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Rub some dirt on it, Eduardo. You'll be okay.
Is anyone else watching Arsenal's game against Birmingham City? Did anyone else see this? (Warning: If you have just eaten, do not view this picture.) In all seriousness, our ...
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Auld Lang Syne
Dave Dilegge, channeling Robbie Burns, has a nice tribute to a tribute up on the Small Wars Journal site to two giants: John Collins and Bob Kingston....
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Heavy Reading for the Weekend
Abu Muqawama has two offerings for you. One is from MERIA Journal, where Jonathan Spyer has a solid article on the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbollah. Abu Muqawama doesn't ...
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Text-message Massacres
This week has seen some good reporting on the ongoing unrest in Kenya. Excellent journalist, bleeding heart liberal, and R2P advocate (who Kip believes actually walks the walk...
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Surge! ... and the treachery of the Georgia State Legislature
Charles Krauthammer and Michael Kinsley have opposing op-eds in the Washington Post on whether or not the "surge" has been successful.* Without reading the op-eds, you pretty ...
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Killing and Building in the Korengal
Kip has previously discussed some of the challenges of the Korengal Valley, and a good overview of the work by CDR Legree, well-regarded commander of the Asadabad PRT in Kunar...
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Grand (and not so grand) Strategy
We don't talk much about strategy, much less grand strategy, around here. But earlier this week, Charlie had the privilege of participating in a day long workshop on just that...
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We'll make sure we don't bomb the Chinese Consulate this time
If we can figure out where, exactly, this "Belgrade" place is where they apparently think it's kosher to burn our embassy, we're going to bomb the hell out of it. Again. Unfor...