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Who's Bad? Paddy Ashdown, apparently.
And for today's most bizarre quote, here's Michael Williams of RUSI, commenting on Paddy Ashdown in the Christian Science Monitor: "Ashdown's a celebrity. He's the Michael Jac...
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Four Stars for Odierno
LTG Ray Odierno has been nominated to be the U.S. Army's next vice chief of staff and to pin on his fourth star, the Washington Post reports. Good for him, and good for the U....
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Kafkaesque primaries
It's coming on 1230am at Charlie's house in DC. (She's back from her Super Tuesday nerdfest party awaiting results from California.) So far it's a good night for McCain fans, ...
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6 February 1958
In Manchester, of course, the world has come to a stop. As the news comes through on this Thursday evening, factories close early. Tears are running down the red-brick walls o...
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Strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Just as the genocide in Darfur has refused to confine itself within the borders of the Sudan, but has now destabilised neighbouring Chad, so anything that happens in Pakistan ...
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Getting Things Right in Iraq ... Even in 2005
For those of you who followed last week's debate on Iraq strategy and tactics between Gian Gentile and Pete Mansoor, one of the things worth highlighting is that Gentile is, A...
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Super Duper Special Crazy Tuesday! Or, alternately, the 5th of February
Abu Muqawama steers clear of presidential politics on most days, but today is the closest thing the U.S. has to a national primary, and from what this blogger has seen, our de...
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Winning, But Not Won?
Many of our readers likely came across Max Boot's article this past week, arguing that we're winning the war in Iraq but that victory is only possible if we maintain troop str...
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Post Another One For the Insurgents
An underdog team beats the undefeated New England cheaters in a prolonged struggle through the fourth quarter. Neither a Manning nor a Brady fan, but happy to see that New Eng...
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Musharraf the Menace
“Al-Qaeda does not exist in Pakistan any more … We have shattered and eliminated their command system there.” – Pervez Musharraf, 2005 How many times have we heard that? Hones...
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Bob Bateman's Combat Trauma Bibliography
[via Small Wars Journal] Combat trauma, in the abstract, is something about which Bob Bateman knows a lot. (LTC Bateman is a combat veteran himself, but his interest in combat...
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But what will happen this summer?
[via Slate] Early in the afternoon, unknown assailants fired shots into the demonstration. The protesters claim either that the army opened fire or that snipers in Ain Roumman...
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Reverse Darwinism
The second bomber failed to detonate his explosive belt and was shot dead by a police officer, a police spokesman said. As insurgencies progress, the insurgents -- and the cou...
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WTF, Giants Win?
To quote the irascible TX Hammes: sell everything, convert your dollars to gold, and move to Montana. (But before you go: dig up the numbers of all those girls who told you th...
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Scotland Are Rubbish ... And the Very Best of Last Week
Let's just say that by the end of the match, Abu Muqawama's friend Jamie was trying to figure out some way in which New Zealand is actually a lost colony of Scotland whereby w...
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Lazy Sunday Reading ... and Tesco Value Lager-Swilling Surrender Monkeys
We here at Abu Muqawama had another great week of high reader figures, which is especially nice as we will be celebrating our one-year anniversary this coming week. When Abu M...
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And for today's heart-warming story from Iraq...
Abu Muqawama was reading the Economist's review of Marc Sageman's new book yesterday when he came across this passage (which also refers to Daniel Byman's new book): Both auth...
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The Debate To Which You Should Be Paying Attention
Gang, the most important debate this past week was not the one between McCain and Romney or the one between Obama and Clinton. The most important debate this week was the deba...
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McCallister Responds
Seems Afghanistanica hit a nerve. Mac McCallister reponds to his criticism (via SWJ): I take great pains not to advertise this model as a predictive tool in the sense that Afg...
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Afghan Study Group: The Wheels Done Come Off
WASHINGTON -- The international effort to stabilize Afghanistan is faltering and urgently needs thousands of additional U.S. and coalition troops, an influential group of Amer...