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Psychology Today explains...
...soldier slang. On the heels of Bob Bateman's recent posts for Small Wars Journal on combat trauma, this is really interesting. A sample: Lightening the mood."Slang helps s...
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Week in Review: Best of the Best
We'll make you better. Highlights from AM last week:Saturday: Abu Muqawama: One Year Later Friday: Skeptics Central Thursday: More Complaints about IO Wednesday: More Troops f...
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Charlie's Weekend Notes
Charlie's back from a whirlwind weekend in NYC, though her recovery may continue a bit longer (there are vague memories of holding seminar in a bar with West Point cadets, a b...
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Insurgent Diaries ... and the IO Campaign
Kip and Abu Muqawama are at odds with respect to the job the U.S. is doing in the information campaign. We both think the military has done a crummy job in the IO fight since ...
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The Professional
Sometimes we here at Abu Muqawama are guilty of black-and-white characterizations that don't really provide the nuance our readers have come to expect on the issues, and for t...
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The $9 Billion Spring Offensive
Congress recently attached a condition that the executive branch certify that Pakistan is moving toward democracy for $1 billion of this year's $10 billion aid package. Perhap...
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Abu Muqawama: One Year Later
On the occasion of this blog's birthday, our customary and ridiculous use of the third person is suspended for the following post. Abu Muqawama started a year ago today. The n...
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Skeptics Central
A Michael Gordon article in the NY Times today discusses the Army's new FM 3-0 Operations. Supposedly the manual gives equal weight to maneuver operations and stability operat...
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Population-Centric Insurgency?
We often write about the way in which brutalities beget brutalities in war and how massacres can lead to tit-for-tat cycles of violence. But is the inverse true as well? When ...
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COIN in JHS 22
“You become a Hasid, you don’t think, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to suppress revolutions,’ ” Mr. Waronker said. But, he said, he drew on his military training as he tackled a schoo...
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Counterinsurgent of the Day: Captain Brian von Kraus
One of Abu Muqawama's regular readers wrote in regarding yesterday's video of kids in Iraq going through Al-Qaeda training to say that what the kids were doing really didn't l...
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Oh, it's on.
You think fights over resources only start wars in the developing world? We haven't had a proper war within the borders of the United States in a while, but some international...
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Winning Photo
Today's World Press Photo Award was awarded to Tim Hetherington for a picture he took for Vanity Fair. The picture is of a tired soldier from 2/503 in the Karengal Valley loca...
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Does Sec. Gates Read This Blog?
Defense Secretary Gates is clearly on board for the big win in The Long War. If we here at Abu Muqawama had t-shirts, he'd totally wear one to work (possibly under his suit, S...
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More Complaints about IO
AM may be impressed by the US publishing a squirm-worthy video of pre-teen terrors. Kip is not so impressed. First, we (that is the institutional military) learn nothing. More...
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The Worst Case Scenario
Abu Muqawama was hanging out with T.X. Hammes today in London, and T.X. was kind enough to point Abu Muqawama toward some of that British advice Prince Andrew claims the Unite...
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Insurgent Kittens
Any man who monkeys around with a damn cat gets what he deserves as far as Abu Muqawama is concerned. But all the same, who knew they were playing an active role in the resist...
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Crane and Metz on COIN
[via Small Wars Journal] Conrad Crane, the chief author of FM 3-24, and Steven Metz, author of Rethinking Insurgency, are featured in a video discussion available on the U.S. ...
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1 2 3 Meme: Tag, We're It
Apparently we've figured out how to do chain letters in the blog-o-sphere. And since our friends at Afghanistanica and Kings of War have tagged us, we feel obligated to partak...
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More Troops to Afghanistan?
Call Abu Muqawama crazy, but here's what he sees as the biggest problem facing U.S. diplomats and public officials when they ask Europeans nations to contribute more troops to...