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Happy New Year's, Gang!
Timothy Noah will make you laugh. So will the Onion: Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters...
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Is Abu Muqawama Actually Pashtun?
Abu Muqawama's Pashtun flatmate is convinced that your humble blogger is a fellow Pashtun and not an East Tennessean of decidedly Scottish descent. His latest "evidence" is pu...
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The Red Army Faction and Popular German Memory
The government’s “drain the swamp” strategy was meant to deprive the underground of support. But in practice, it meant cracking down on the entire German left—searching squatt...
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Al-Qaeda in Pakistan ... and Final Thoughts on Benazir Bhutto
Carlotta Gall, whose reporting from Afghanistan Abu Muqawama has enjoyed over the past few years, has an article today in the New York Times talking about that way in which th...
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Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
The following announcement was in the New York Times today: Thomas L. Friedman is on book leave. That's good news because it means 90% of the unintelligible metaphors have bee...
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Bhutto Assassination Update (29 Dec)
A few key developments in the ongoing coverage of Bhutto's assassination: Rioting continues across Pakistan. To note: in Sindh province (Bhutto's stronghold) there was subst...
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Charlie Wilson (Mike Vickers bonus edition)
The release of Charlie Wilson's War last week has prompted a barrage of first hand accounts of the good congressman's antics. Not surprisingly, two colorful, first-hand accou...
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Weekend Reading from Military Review
As AM and Charlie both travel over the weekend, here are a few articles to keep you busy: Secretary Gates continues his push for "soft power." Can he be dual-hatted at both St...
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COIN on Charlie Rose
Abu Muqawama is thinking hard about whether or not this specific event -- the Bhutto assassination -- affects U.S. COIN efforts in Afghanistan, Swat, and the FATA. While he's ...
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Benazir Bhutto, RIP
Hospital sources are confirming Benazir Bhutto has, in fact, been killed in a massive suicide attack on a political rally. Most web sites are still saying she was wounded. The...
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COIN Academy Library: Mission Complete!
From our partners in crime over at the Small Wars Journal Blog:We are checking it out now, but apparently the last of 86 unique items and over 140 total books and two movies w...
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Christmas Gifts for a Counterinsurgent
Abu Muqawama got some pretty sweet Christmas gifts yesterday, and he wanted to share a few of the titles with you all. 1. Hugh Kennedy's The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spre...
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Now for something completely different...
...it's not the Red Sox but it's close. Fire Joe Morgan* picked it up Friday; Charlie's former student over at the TNR blog linked to it over the weekend: A Flotsam data speci...
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Merry Christmas (afternoon edition)
Charlie is taking advantage of this op-pause in her busy Christmas schedule to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. She has no tradition of Christmas shooting (though the idea...
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Peace and Goodwill, etc.
Abu Muqawama woke up early this morning, hit the gym with his cousin, drank a protein shake, and then packed all the guns into the back of the truck to hit the shooting range....
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US to Musharraf: Fight AQ, not India
A who's-who of NYT South Asia reporters offers up a detailed look into US aid policies to Pakistan. They report something Charlie first heard a few months ago: that Pakistan i...
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CLCs, In Brief
Charlie has been working on a post on Concerned Local Citizens groups (or Awakening Councils) in Iraq for the better part of two days. Several requests for information earlier...
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What Would George Washington Do?
Phil Carter, over at Intel-Dump, highlights an op-ed by Founding Brothers' historian Joseph Ellis.History professor Joseph Ellis writes in today's Washington Post about "what ...
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Charlie Wilson's War
Abu Muqawama watched Charlie Wilson's War with his grandmother yesterday and can recommend it to his readership, although Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance was the only thi...
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Weekend Reading, and a Note
There has been some discussion in the comments over officer promotions about the requirement that all officers seeking promotion to general officer serve in a joint or "purple...