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Presidential Politics
We don't talk much about partisan politics here at Abu Muqawama, which suits its authors just fine. Which is not to say we don't care about them: while AM was avoiding Iowa ...
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And you were depressed about the fact that our elected representatives don't know the difference between a Sunni and a Shia?
Well, you not going to like the fact that Americans can't identify Iraq on a map. So much for the theory about Americans learning geography through war......
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New Website for GLORIA
Public service announcement: Barry Rubin's Israel-based think tank has a new website. Abu Muqawama finds some interesting articles in Rubin's MERIA journal from time to time, ...
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Iranian Naval "Swarming" Tactics
Five Iranian speedboats harassed three US navy ships at the weekend, approaching them and radioing a threat to blow them up, US officials say. The incident happened as the US...
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The Last Testament of George MacDonald Fraser
No surprise that the last testament of the man who created Flashman would be a rant against political correctness. A must read. (Even if it is from the quasi-fascist Daily Mai...
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"Hail Mary" in Pakistan
One day my interpreter told me a joke about Nigeria surpassing Pakistan in that year’s ranking of the world’s most corrupt nations. “We bribed the Nigerians to go first. Abu M...
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I yearn to dress with the authority of a kleptocratic cannibal
Charlie's myriad interests intersect so rarely that she just had to direct your attention to one such cosmic instance: confidante and culture maven Cintra Wilson's most recen...
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SOF to Pakistan?
NYT is reporting that the US is considering sending special operations forces to the tribal areas in Pakistan. This has obviously been discussed before, but it's thought that...
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You Want Some Islam?
Because the New York Times Book Review this week is all about some Islam. There are review articles by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan, Max Rodenbeck, Irshad Manji, Rashid Khal...
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George MacDonald Fraser, RIP
The author of one of Abu Muqawama's favorite series of books passed away this week at 82. (Charlie is still woefully remiss in not having read them; maybe she'll spend some b...
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The Final Post of U.S. Army Maj. Andrew Olmsted
MAJ Andrew Olmsted, a U.S. Army officer and blogger serving in Iraq, died in an ambush Thursday. Take the time this weekend to read his final blog post. It's worth your time, ...
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How Many Iraqis Have Died Since 2003?
Remember the famous Lancet report which caused such a stir in 2006? The one that argued more than 10 times as many Iraqis had died since 2003 than any other source (pro-govern...
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Jihadis in Pakistan
Long article in this week's NYT Mag on jihadis in Pakistan. Seriously down in the weeds. Charlie is still parsing it, but we'll offer more detailed commentary later in the w...
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Nuclear Guards, Asleep at the Watch
And holy %$#@, here's another story that was hidden below all the hubbub over the Iowa caucuses. Thank goodness, because this story is really scary. We better keep this quiet ...
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How al-Jazeera Lost Its Balls
Far, far, far below the ridiculous coverage a few thousand voters in Iowa have been getting today was a story in the New York Times in which Bob Worth reports what the rest of...
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Operational vs. Strategic Culture
This SSI publication came across Charlie's desk today: On the Uses of Cultural Knowledge by Sheila Miyoshi Jager. It manages to pack a review of FM 3-24, an overview of the ...
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An American in Iran
Abu Muqawama doesn't usually post much on Iran, but he just read Max Rodenbeck's long letter from Tehran which ran in the NYRB and thought it good enough to pass along. Max is...
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COSBIN
afghanistanica, the world's leading authority on counter-snowball-insurgency (COSBIN), has this great video up on his blog. Bored and cold U.S. soldiers pick a snowball fight ...
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Losing the Information War
Ace national security reporter Shaun Waterman has an interesting story up on the UPI wire on the way in which the U.S. lost the information battle during First Fallujah: A sec...
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Abu Muqawama assures you all that this book will not be nearly as disappointing as that bungler Colt Brennan was last night
Very rarely does Abu Muqawama recommend a book to his readership without first reading it. That said, Steven Metz's new book, Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy,is on...