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Separated at Birth?
Lost in this recent slew of articles praising Gen. Odierno is a question that is simply dying to be answered: why is it that so many of our favorite counter-insurgents resembl...
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Legacy = Torturer
President Bush vetoed Saturday legislation meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, saying it "would take away one of the most valu...
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15-9!
Unbelievable....
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COL Peter Mansoor Weighs in on Gentile and the Surge
Real quick: check out COL Peter Mansoor's response to LTC Gentile over at SWJ. More commentary here later in the weekend. Until then, check out Kip's comments on Gentile's vie...
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COIN Book Club, No. 6 (Resurrecting the Book Club)
Back by popular demand, the long-awaited Book Club has returned. Wars are by their nature dialectical struggles in addition to being physical ones. Clashes of human interest a...
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And Charlie reads Nagl so you don't have to...
Everyone's favorite Army LTC, Herr Profesor John Nagl, has an op-ed in today's Washington Post. Actually, it's more like three op-eds (which Charlie tried to tell him...appare...
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Lego Insurgents
[via Arabist] Abu Muqawama loved Legos so much as a kid that his mom still puts a few pieces in his Christmas stocking each year. (Actually, Abu Muqawama's job this Christmas ...
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The (French) COIN Reading List
We here at Abu Muqawama are still somewhat over-the-moon after our huge shout-out from ace reporter Spencer Ackerman in the first part of his series on the counterinsurgency c...
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Buy the Best Tanker
It doesn't happen very often, but the New York Times has a defense-related staff editorial today with which Abu Muqawama heartily agrees (comments below):According to Air Forc...
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The Lebanon Narrative
How did the US Army originally come to a doctrine that disregarded our history of small wars? They came to it by looking to the 1973 Israeli Yom Kippur war where the Israelis ...
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Yes, they should demand to see him. And then they should demand the president fire him.
The US Congress is demanding the senior Nato commander in Afghanistan appear to explain the worsening situation in the country following a series of bleak warnings from the in...
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The Colonels and 'The Matrix'
Hot on Cullen's heels, the intrepid Spencer has an outstanding piece that chronicles a fight for the soul of the Army via two competing profiles of LTC Paul Yingling and LTC G...
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Stepping Back from the Brink
In Kenya, it seems that the sparks may yet not ignite the kindling, leaving tragedy but avoiding cataclysm. The Kenyan Parliament met Thursday for the first time since a powe...
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Super Friends
A few friends of this blog have sent in stuff that, well, Abu Muqawama thinks you should read. First off, everyone's favorite counterin-sur-gen-say playa hayta, LTC Gian Genti...
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Lunacy in Lebanon
The Lebanese Republic is a small, mostly mountainous country in the Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east,...
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CyberWar
We may all wish NATO would put a few more boots on the ground in Afghanistan, but at least they're taking another problem -- cyber warfare -- seriously enough.Nato is treating...
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Stabilisation en français
It's not just us Americans who have new doctrine out there. Thanks to Stéphane, Abu Muqawama has been looking around the French Army's doctrine center, le Centre de Doctrine d...
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Tony Thomas, American Badass
Abu Muqawama has spent the past half hour reading Stéphane Taillat's excellent blog, which is now linked on the right. Thanks, Stéphane, for linking to this briefing by BG Ton...
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What must al-Qaeda think when they see these videos?
"Jaysus, these Americans are all nuts, going for walks with %$#@ing machine pistols on their back pockets and beards like C. Everett Koop!" The more Abu Muqawama watches this...
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DNI Debates
A week ago, Mike McConnell, US Director of National Intelligence, declared that the Afghan National government held control over 30% of Afghanistan while the Taliban held 10% ...