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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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...