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Martha Raddatz: Still Braver than Abu Muqawama
Martha Raddatz of ABC News wins the Spirit Award this week. Her reports from the Swat Valley in Pakistan -- where the Taliban has officially taken over, even as the political ...
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Ambush in Afghanistan
This report from Afghanistan caught Abu Muqawama's eye for all the wrong reasons.KABUL, Afghanistan -- Six U.S. troops and three Afghan soldiers died when insurgents ambushed ...
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Senate Hearings on Lebanon
Emile sent along his testimony to the U.S. Senate hearing on Lebanon from a few days ago. It makes for good weekend reading. Enjoy!...
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The Wars of Ideas
Rob Satloff is right when he says he haven't placed a high enough priority on the ideological battles of the War on Terror, but at the same time, Abu Muqawama doesn't think th...
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Condi Rice Couldn't Plan A Two-Car Funeral
Glenn Kessler has an article in today's Washington Post on the management failings of Condoleezza Rice as both a Secretary of State and as the National Security Council. How d...
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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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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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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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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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In Beirut, it's never a good thing...
...when the price of small arms doubles....
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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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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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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 t...
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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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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...