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Promoting Counterinsurgents
Abu Muqawama just read Max Boot's blog post on promoting tried-and-true counterinsurgents, which echoes Abu Muqawama's rant last week. The more Abu Muqawama thinks about it, t...
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From Beirut to Annapolis?
Yesterday afternoon, Abu Muqawama shared a few pints of Guinness with one of the smarter and better-informed Lebanon analysts he knows. Here's a question that came up: Is this...
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Dems: Getting Smarter?
Along with the rest of rational America, Abu Muqawama was shocked the Democrats chose Ricardo "Mr. Competence" Sanchez to deliver this week's radio address. (And boy, did Dave...
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D-Day in Lebanon
It's decision time for Lebanon's hopelessly dysfunctional politicians, who will all suffer a lot less than their hapless constituents if they can't pull a rabbit out of the ha...
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And General Custer Will Give the Response to the State of the Union
Fairly or unfairly, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez will always be remembered as America's incompetent field commander in Iraq -- the lowly three-star thrown into what should have been a...
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Thanksgiving in Tennessee
As some of you know, Abu Muqawama always takes time out of his day to read the police blotter from his local newspaper back home in East Tennessee. This is what he's used to: ...
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Reading, Reading, Reading
There will be another installment of the wildly popular Counterinsurgency Book Club this weekend, but until then, Abu Muqawama wanted to draw your attention to two things: 1. ...
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Khalass!
Happy Thanksgiving Day, America! Or, as we call it in London and Beirut, "Thursday." Yesterday's post was all about U.S. policy toward Lebanon, and Abu Muqawama mentioned poll...
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Beirut is Not Tehran
Abu Muqawama has not posted much on Lebanon recently, but that's not because that troubled little country isn't on his mind. Much of his time in the library these days, in fac...
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WTF is wrong with the USMC?
So Abu Muqawama's cousin is graduating from Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in a few days, and the family -- which, being from East Tennessee, encourages all martial end...
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Once again, the liberal mainstream media refuses to report on all the good news coming out of Iraq
The security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. Days now pass without a car bomb, after a high of 44 in the city in February. The number of bodies appearing on Baghd...
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CSIS Report on U.S. Aid to Pakistan
Nate Fick sent this well-timed report along. Abu Muqawama imagines it will be much-referenced within the beltway in the coming weeks, as it breaks down U.S. strategy toward an...
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Yet another book Abu Muqawama has to read on top of the 356 others
This looks great, though. Seriously. afghanistanica has more......
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U.S. to Train Pakistani Tribesmen
Abu Muqawama is not entirely sure why this report warrants the coverage the New York Times is giving it:WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — A new and classified American military proposal o...
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Checking joint blocks
There's a great debate going on in the comments on Abu Muqawama's post on General Petraeus's role in the next GO selection board (Instapundit, Blackfive, and SWJ also have the...
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The Marlboro Marine, Revisited
Remember the iconic photograph of the Marine in Fallujah smoking a Marlboro cigarette? The one that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize? Boy, has the Observer got one hell o...
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Clausewitz [hearts] Sarah Chayes
In the end, after three days of fighting, the Taliban were not crushed in the jaws of a closing trap, as we had been led to expect. They executed a disciplined, fighting withd...
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Bernard Fall profile
Charlie is a sucker for good profile writing, but this profile of Bernard Fall got to her worse than most. Maybe it's just the subtitle:Bernard Fall loved his wife, but his he...
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COIN Book Club, No. 3
Those who were interested in counter-insurgency prior to, say, 2003 or 2004 often found used books to be a topic of conversation. Anyone have a copy of A Savage War of Peace? ...
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Petraeus Picks the Next Generation
Abu Muqawama woke up this morning to an email from the editors of Small Wars Journal calling attention to this article in the Washington Post on a development he thinks has th...