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File Under: Things We'll Believe When We See With Our Own Damn Eyes
"I'm encouraged that he seems to understand the necessity of doing counterinsurgency," Fallon continued. He said Kiyani will try to reorient the army from its focus on the ext...
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Notes from Afghanistan
There is an op-ed in today's New York Times that doesn't quite explain much about Afghanistan but does offer a peek inside the world of international aid workers living in vio...
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Francis Lieber and the Code of Conduct
Folks, there is a great article in the American Scholar on Francis Lieber, the Prussian émigré who wrote America's first code of conduct during the Civil War. During the hot ...
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Moltke (the Elder) on Strategy
Strategy is a system of ad hoc expedients; it is more than knowledge, it is the application of knowledge to practical life, the development of an original idea in accordance w...
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Dumb and Dumber
The percentage of new recruits entering the Army with a high school diploma dropped to a new low in 2007, according to a study released yesterday, and Army officials confirmed...
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Priceless Abu Muqawama Reader Comment #476
I'm a European exchange student in the US Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth and it strikes me that the focus of this academic year is still very much, if n...
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Shuffling Deckchairs...
Abu Muqawama was in the airport yesterday and ran into ace defense correspondent Tom Ricks, who was on his way to do some reporting from Iraq. Abu Muqawama tried not to be con...
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Air COIN Con
Trust me. I love the Air Force. There is nothing that gives a better sense of security to the small unit counterinsurgent than knowledge that he's got a JDAM from Uncle Sam ...
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Kip on Pakistan and Afghanistan
It with great pleasure that we announce a third member of the blogging team here at Abu Muqawama. "Kip" is a U.S. Army officer who has served in Iraq and -- extensively and re...
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Leadership, Definition of
You guys all know by now that Abu Muqawama is a) devoutly non-partisan and b) hates talking about the 2008 U.S. presidential election at the expense of Iraq and Afghanistan, b...
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Petraeus to NATO?
The NYT is reporting some RUMINT that Charlie has been hearing for a while now: that GEN Petraeus may follow up his tour in Iraq with a stint as Supreme Allied Commander, Eur...
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War, Meet the 2008 Campaign
Michael Gordon has been busy this weekend. And while Charlie doesn't share AM's aversion to partisan politics and the 2008 election, she's not usually inclined to indulge suc...
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Lazy Sunday Reading
Check out the pro-Surge and anti-Surge op-eds in the Washington Post today written by Keane, (Frederick) Kagan and O'Hanlon and Andrew Bacevich, respectively. Aside from takin...
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Happy Birthday, Charlie!
Counterinsurgency practitioners and theorists lucky enough to know the more charming and intelligent half of your friendly blogging team will gather in Washington, DC tonight ...
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Having Trouble Visiting Abu Muqawama?
Are you a U.S. government employee or soldier who is having trouble breaking past the government's firewall to view this site on your computer? Try the program Psiphon, design...
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Between fitna, fawda, and the deep blue sea
IT IS not easy to be an Arab these days. If you are old, the place where you live is likely to have changed so much that little seems friendly and familiar. If you are young, ...
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Worst. General. Ever.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, was paid $100,000 to endorse a veterans charity that watchdog groups say is ripping off don...
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Kahl vs. Yglesias
This is exactly the kind of debate Abu Muqawama's readers will appreciate. Colin Kahl vs. leftist blogger Matthew Yglesias on air power and air strikes in COIN operations... P...
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More on COIN and the Europeans, plus Nir Rosen in the Boston Review
Abu Muqawama has just driven to Washington, DC from Carlisle, Pennsylvania through a snowstorm. It was a decidedly white-knuckle experience. The closer you get to DC, the craz...
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Gates on NATO Allies
"I'm worried we have some military forces that don't know how to do counterinsurgency operations." -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking on NATO allies in Afghanistan...