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Bob Bateman on Remembrance Day
The eleventh day of the eleventh month is more poignant over here on this side of the pond, where 11/11 will forever be the day the guns fell silent on the fields of Europe in...
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Anthro vs. the Army: The Saga Continues
As reported in Small Wars Journal, the American Anthropological Association has issued a statement on the U.S. military's Human Terrain Teams. In the full statement by the ass...
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The COIN Fight in Pakistan
Finally. The Washington Post has a piece today focusing on the way in which political turmoil in Pakistan is affecting the U.S.-supported counterinsurgency fight against Islam...
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Happy 232nd, Marines!
While Abu Muqawama observes Remembrance Day across the pond, Charlie will be celebrating the Marine Corps' 232nd birthday in our nation's capitol on Saturday. In honor of the...
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East Tennessee: Like The Middle East, But More Clannish And Violent, With Even More Gun-Toting Fundamentalists
This could become a regular feature, where Abu Muqawama just copies and pastes the crime bulletin from his hometown newspaper: James Harper is facing aggravated assault charge...
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Join the Army ... please?
Phil Carter has a nice graphic up at Slate on all the ways in which the Army is recruiting folks with incentive-laden contracts. Note how Ranger School is an "incentive." More...
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In Beirut, it's never a good thing...
...when the price of small arms doubles....
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Good News and Bad News from Iraq
Folks have been reluctant to say this out loud, but the U.S. military has defeated Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The New York Times reports today on something everyone has been cautiously...
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3-24 Chapter...Now with Footnotes!
Small Wars Journal has unearthed a draft copy of the now "controversial" third chapter of FM 3-24...complete with footnotes!SWJED professed here of his experience with editors...
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Blanford and Kaplinsky on Harb Tammuz
Abu Muqawama has been listening this morning to an exchange between Nicholas Blanford, a journalist based in Beirut, and retired IDF Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky. This exchange t...
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Kaplan on Pakistan
Fred Kaplan at Slate is not a veteran Pakistan watcher by any stretch of the imagination. But he is a student (and critic) of the current American administration. So Charlie...
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Bateman on VDH
This has little to do with counterinsurgency, per se, but Abu Muqawama is posting it for those interested in military history and because Victor Davis Hanson -- aside from bei...
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Americans Abroad, Follow-Up
A couple of comments in the Americans abroad post prompted Charlie to comment further. One is the logistical issue associated with ROTC students finding their way abroad. She...
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Making Sense of Pakistan
Considering the demographics of Abu Muqawama's neighborhood, it's probably safe to say that at least 50% of the dinner-table conversations around here currently revolve around...
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Special Operations in Iraq
One of Abu Muqawama's former housemates sent along this really disturbing report from National Public Radio on special operations forces in Iraq. Abu Muqawama cannot vouch for...
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Americans Abroad
On the surface, study-abroad programs may not seem like the most vital weapon in the counterinsurgency fight. But as Abu Muqawama read this article in Sunday's New York Times,...
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Does the Marine Corps do this to everyone?
Abu Muqawama's cousin just sent out an email to the family describing his experience at U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School as a "right of passage." That would be rite ...
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Musharraf Declares State of Emergency
Charlie has started this post no less than three times over the last 36 hours. And the story just keeps evolving.... Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of ...
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COIN Book Club, No. 1
The insurgent is fluid because he has neither responsibility nor concrete assets; the counterinsurgent is rigid because he has both, and no amount of wailing can alter this fa...
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Diplomats and Anthropologists
The Washington Post features two op-eds today on the recent State Department flap concerning diplomats refusing to serve in Iraq. (Abu Muqawama and Charlie first weighed in on...