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Sweep!
Brilliant. Just brilliant. It's past four in the morning, though, and Abu Muqawama is off to bed....
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The Counterinsurgency Reading List
Abu Muqawama and Charlie put our heads together across the Atlantic Ocean and came up with this, the long-awaited Counterinsurgency Reading List. This list is not exhaustive, ...
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More on State and COIN
The always reliable Small Wars Journal Blog has an extended post on the issues surrounding the State Dept's role in COIN campaigns. In particular it highlights comments from I...
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Counterinsurgency 101
The Economist has as good an introduction to COIN and the debate surrounding it that you're likely to read anywhere. This is all old news and familiar names -- Hammes, Nagl, K...
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Well Done, State
This is about four years too late, but kudos for the State Department for finally ordering more diplomats to deploy to Iraq. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (Reuters) — Facing staff short...
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Two things that annoy Abu Muqawama today...
One, if the Italian legal system were some incorruptible, we-mean-business outfit that put the Sicilian and Neapolitan mafia bosses behind bars and clamped down on the crimes ...
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"Resistance is our strategy"
Anyway, that's what the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades say. Clancy Chassay, who filmed and edited this fantastic video report from Gaza, isn't the kind of reporter who is going to ...
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Bush at War, part the fourth
Charlie has it on good authority that Bob Woodward is working on a fourth installment in his Bush at War series, with at least a portion of it focusing on the turn-around in A...
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Europe's Pacifism
Abu Muqawama spent yesterday afternoon in the library, reading Barry Posen's explanation of the way in which inter-war France did its best to pawn its national responsibility ...
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Islamo-Facism Week Bombs at UW
Fellow mil-blogger Blackfive, whose politics are decidedly right-of-center, has a hilarious report from a David Horowitz event for Islamo-Facism Week. He discovers a) David Ho...
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Calling it a night...
Somebody forgot to tell the Colorado Rockies it was Game 1 of the World Series. Man, have they sucked tonight. They've just walked in the 11th and 12th runs of the night. Make...
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COIN Reading List
A few weeks ago, Abu Muqawama met with a friend in London who was reading Alistair Horne's "A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962.". He -- a reporter whose dispatches from ...
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Lessons in COIN from Israel and the Territories
Regular Abu Muqawama readers know this blog avoids all things Israeli-Palestinian like the plague. The politics are so poisonous that you can't say much of substance without e...
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Queen of the Quagmire
Charlie asked her students to read this New York Review of Books article in class today. In it, Rory Stewart,* reviews several biographies of Gertrude Bell, the (in)famous Bri...
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Terror and the Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor (America's highest military honor) was awarded 124 times during World War I and 464 times during World War II. It was awarded 246 times during the Vietnam C...
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COIN in Afghanistan: Theory and Practice
Abu Muqawama appreciates the space the New York Times has been giving to Roger Cohen on its online op-ed page, which means readers get to hear views on foreign affairs not pen...
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Sox Win, Sox Win!!
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File Under: The reason Abu Muqawama is still up at 4:00 in the morning
Pedroia , you ****ing beauty. Update: Bring on the Rockies....
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Problems for Pakistan
Abu Muqawama is under the mistaken impression that Charlie knows something about strategy (he has no such misconceptions regarding her knowledge of tactics). To the extent tha...
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Does Gen. Conway really not get it?
[Serious COIN / USMC inside baseball follows; actual baseball fans should go here instead.] Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Conway, spoke at the Center for a New Am...