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State Dept staffing cuts
After finally filling its required posts in Iraq an Afghanistan the State Department has been forced to make cuts in 10% of its staffing jobs elsewhere: Diplomatic posts at t...
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Qassem Now Hizbollah's Military Commander?
What the hell? Can anyone verify the article in Saudi-owned ash-Sharq al-Awsat claiming that Iran has named Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem Hizbollah's military commander...
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Regular Service Resumes
Abu Muqawama is back. He thanks Charlie for picking up the slack while he was away and apologizes to the readership for being out of loop this past week. He had a great visit ...
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Steroids!
For those of you who come here for your sporting news,* here's the link to MLB's Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball. Good news for Red Sox Nation: Eric Gagne was the o...
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Lebanese Gen Francois al-Hajj killed
Lebanon's Army Chief of Operations, and top candidate for Army Chief of Staff, was killed today in a car bombing near the Presidential Palace in Beirut. (The current Chief of ...
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COIN Academy Library--UPDATE
Thanks so much to all the readers who have contributed to the COIN Academy Library in Afghanistan. So far, over 75 books have been purchased! And Charlie is told that many hav...
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Manliness
Does the mustache make the man? Does it make them more manly? Dan Helmer thinks so. Here's his recommendation for his mentor and mine, John Nagl. Of course, they'll both have ...
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Random Readings
Here's a handful of articles that have passed through Charlie's inbox in the last few days. Ralph Peters, Dishonest Doctrine (AFJ). Read Ralph's latest screed so Charlie doesn...
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Bombing in Algiers
The NYT is reporting that at least 45 people have been killed in car bombings in Algiers today: Two car bombs exploded in close succession in the Algerian capital today, killi...
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Iran and COIN
Ever true to form, Stephen Peter Rosen writes on the new Middle East Strategy at Harvard blog that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program as a response to the US invasion ...
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"We are the irreverance"
Yesterday, your faithful bloggers had a chance to get a good update on how things were going in Afghanistan these days. The talk was officially "off the record," so we're not ...
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Abu Muqawama, in DC
Abu Muqawama writes this post from Charlie's office.* We're about to head to the Afghanistan event as soon as she's done with a meeting. Abu Muqawama is sick with a wicked hea...
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Gates to USMC: No Afghanistan for you!
Sorry Marines, you're staying in Anbar:Senior Pentagon and military officials said today that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has decided against a proposal for shifting Mar...
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Midweek Announcements
Hey, folks, Abu Muqawama wants to bring a few things to your attention: 1. Abu Muqawama will be traveling for the next week, so his posting will be light. Charlie, meanwhile, ...
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Cholera: A Microscopic Insurgent?
War and sickness are inextricably intertwined. Large groups of men living at close quarters on scant sleep are perfect carriers. Indeed, microbes have had a larger effect on t...
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New Middle East Strategy Blog at Harvard
Allow Abu Muqawama to point your way toward Harvard's new Middle East Strategy blog, run by Stephen P. Rosen and Martin Kramer. Rosen and Kramer are both members of Team Giuli...
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Feltman on Lebanon II
Boy, the Washington Institute sure picked the wrong day to issue its new report exploring joint U.S.-Israeli options for war on Iran, eh? Can anyone out there honestly see how...
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Pssssssssss......
That's the sound of all the air escaping from the beltway's War on Iran balloon. Update: Charlie, here. There's a fair amount of tea leaf reading going on about when the NIE w...
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Ethnic Cleansing: Lessons from the Balkans
Last week, Abu Muqawama had a lengthy post on the difficulties U.S. commanders in Iraq will face when internally displaced persons return to their homes in Baghdad and try to ...
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Paddy Ashdown to Afghanistan?
The Financial Times is reporting that Paddy Ashdown is being considered for the role of UN-NATO special envoy to Afghanistan in the hopes that he'll bring some much-needed foc...