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Deptartment of How the Hell Did This Happen?
Why is Johan Santana going to the Mets? I mean really, what cosmic forces aligned to let this happen? Why isn't he joining Josh Beckett to form the greatest pitching line-up o...
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Death Squads Threaten Surge
Following up on AM's post regarding the fragility of the surge, veteran military correspondent Joe Galloway has a column up on the effect of targeted killings of CLC members b...
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Surge to Victory?
As Colin Kahl explained, correctly, in Middle East Policy, the recent drop in violence in Iraq can be chalked up to four things: 1. The Surge and the new U.S. population-centr...
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National Security Human Capital
Achieving Unity of Effort in Interagency OperationsIn testimony given to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Flournoy writes that "In the last two decades, the United States has experienced s...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Big Changes for Big Army
We bitch a lot around here. And when you're on your way to losing two wars, some serious soul-searching is called for. But we'd be remiss if we didn't note those occasions whe...
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Everything Must Go!
Charlie doesn't know how many Quantico based Marines (or civilians) we have as readers, but you should all know about the fire sale going on over at the Marine Corps Associati...
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Worse than a Crime: CIA Interrogation Program
Intrepid reporter Spencer, newly ensconced at the Washington Independent, has a deeply reported story about the origins of the CIA's post 9/11 interrogation program. For those...
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Co-opting al-Qaeda in Yemen
Abu Muqawama failed to link to the Guardian's obituary of George Habash yesterday, which he damn well should have done because it just figures that David Hirst -- fluent in Ar...
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The IDF's Alarm Clock?
Can Israelis Learn from Hassan Nasrallah? That's what Guy Bechor thinks. (Thanks, TG) We should also be thanking Nasrallah for teaching us his psychological warfare tactics: A...
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The U.S. Air Force Declares War! (On the Army, the Marines, and the Navy)
Good to know that with the U.S. locked into two ground battles with Islamist insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Air Force doesn't take its eye off the ball: the budg...
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George Habash is Dead
Regular readers of this blog know we avoid the Israel-Palestine conflict like no one's business. Unless there are tactical lessons to be drawn from the experiences of either t...
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NYC Road Trip!
Charlie just bought her tickets to see George Packer's new play, Betrayed. It's based on his searing New Yorker article about the plight of Iraqi interpreters (an issue that h...
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This Republic of Suffering
Americans had never endured anything like the losses they suffered between 1861 and 1865 and have experienced nothing like them since. Two percent of the United States populat...
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You Tube Mobile
A couple days ago, YouTube announced the release of a new version of You Tube Mobile that will allow access to You Tube over 3G networks for over 100,000,000 phones. In additi...
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What Abu Muqawama's Readers Are Reading ... besides, uh, you know, this blog
About once a month, Abu Muqawama will sift through all the mail his readers send to the abumuqawama[at]hotmail.com email address. A few things of note, worth passing along: Ha...
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Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
Parag Khanna is so freaking smart. You know when you meet people and walk away thinking, Damn, I can spend the rest of my life in a library or traveling the world and still no...
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Vital Garments
New clothing designed by Smartex may have significant use in the COIN fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. In an article in Wired, Sally McGrane tells us about this new wonderstuff:...
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Private Military Companies in Iraq: No Solution in Sight
With even more U.S. contractors now in Iraq and Afghanistan than U.S. military personnel, government officials told Congress yesterday that the Bush administration is not prep...
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SOS, Different Day
It just never stops...BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An explosion apparently targeting a police official rocked a Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Friday, killing at least six peo...
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Entertaining Policies
As I sit somewhere in the former Soviet Union, I long for a simpler world of mutual destruction where Colin Gray is relevant and congressmen still know how to party. Longing c...