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Department of "Better Late than Never"
"The University of Chicago Press, publisher of scholarly works since 1891, just filled a rush order for a third 5,000-copy printing of 'Instructions for American Servicemen in...
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Anthropologists at War ... with Themselves
Abu Muqawama enjoyed a long conversation with an academic colleague yesterday regarding the ethics of conducting research in the social sciences in the service of national end...
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Resign, Retire, Renounce
Fred Kaplan returns to his bread and butter of civil-military relations, with a sober assessment of the options of dissenting senior officers faced with a possible war against...
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New Strategy Blog
As you all know, Abu Muqawama is written by two youngish folks who focus almost exclusively on counterinsurgency theory and tactics as well as some larger issues relating to t...
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Accountability
Abu Muqawama has not had much nice to say about the U.S. Air Force recently, so it's important to note when they get something right. Yesterday, they did: The Air Force has de...
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U.S. Air Base in Lebanon
A reader sent this story along, which Abu Muqawama had seen in as-Safir, a decidedly anti-U.S. (Angry Arab prefers "independent, leftist") newspaper, today.* (Arabic) The fol...
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Meeting Resistance
The New York Times links to a video op-ed by Steve Connors and Molly Bingham on the insurgency in Iraq during the early phases of the war. Abu Muqawama has met and spoken with...
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You're messin' up the rotation: Puff, Puff, Give! Puff, Puff, Give!
How much fun do you think Nic Blanford had researching this article? Bekaa Valley, Lebanon - Ali plucks a sprig of the cannabis sativa plant and sniff...
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Sorry, GOP ...
... but torture still doesn't work. Abu Muqawama doesn't mean to get all partisan today, but those of you who read this blog regularly know that Abu Muqawama went through the ...
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Another Reason to Hate the Air Force?
Don Rumsfeld had it all wrong. He famously said, "you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want." But that's not true: we all go to war with the military...
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12 Army Captains
First it was seven Army sergeants. Now it's twelve Army captains. Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in...
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Advice from Charlie to RSN
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Beyond Iraq: Speech by GEN James T. Conway
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted a lunchtime speech by US Marine Corps Commandant General James T. Conway on October 15, 2007 at the Willard InterContinent...
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Blackwater Air
Goodness me. Afghanistan Watch and afghanistanica have posted the in-flight voice recorder transcript to a Blackwater-piloted flight that killed three U.S. soldiers in Afghani...
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All you need to know about COIN in tribal areas...
... the great Colonel McCallister has squeezed into a pamphlet. 72 pages, folks. Short enough for even a Marine to read. (Thanks, Small Wars Journal!)...
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All Abu Muqawama wants for Christmas ...
... is this book....
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MAGTF's rule
Charlie hopes that the proposal to move Marine units out of Anbar province and re-orient the Corps to Afghanistan sparks some serious debate. It's both controversial and poten...
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Charlie is sorry...
...sorry that Abu Muqawama missed the only back-to-back homers from Manny and Ortiz this season. Love that dirty water! And she would have enjoyed the game more if Abu Muqawam...
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Divided Loyalties
My goodness, what on Earth is Abu Muqawama going to do? Scotland in quarterfinals of the World Cup, the Red Sox in the ALDS, and both games on at the same damn time. He's just...
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Afghanistan: Sending a Message
Now, this is what Abu Muqawama likes to see. Abu Muqawama has long said he doesn't really mind the British pulling out of Iraq as long as they beef up their presence in Afghan...