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Management of Savagery
In working on a set of terrorism seminars, Charlie recently came across the treasure trove of al Qaeda documents housed by West Point's Combating Terrorism Center. Two publica...
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Abu Muqawama salutes any man who has his assets frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department and keeps his sense of humor
"They are welcome to all the money I have in America. Rice should take half of it to improve the way she looks. She should have her teeth straightened and her face fixed, and ...
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State Dept. Backs Down ... Not Really
The State Department will not order diplomats to serve in Iraq. Those 48 slots they needed filling have been filled with volunteers (God bless their souls). The State Departme...
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As if Abu Muqawama needed another reason to hate the Guardian
In the wake of the IAEA's announcement that Iran might be able to begin building a nuclear warhead within a year, the Guardian's headline reads: Decision time for the U.S. Rea...
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Abu Muqawama's friends are wicked smaht
Two of Abu Muqawama's favorite bloggers have reason to cheer: First, Charles Levinson over at Conflict Blotter has a piece up in the new Arab Reform Bulletin on governance in ...
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Has Wilayati Gone Mad?
A few nights ago, Abu Muqawama went out for a pint with his neighbors, two young Spaniards working in London their first year out of university. One of them, whose English isn...
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A Suicide Epidemic?
Abu Muqawama was reading Le Monde of all newspapers when he came across a story on an "épidémie de suicides" among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. He tracked down the original ...
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What do you mean? They don't have horns? Or cloven hooves for feet? Or reek of sulfur?
Blimey, this must absolutely blow the minds of Guardianistas. David Smith's embed continues, and he's dedicated his space today to just letting U.S. soldiers speak for themsel...
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Military Review: November-December
Charlie called Abu Muqawama's attention to the new edition of Military Review, and he's spent the morning thus far looking through the articles. If he had to recommend just on...
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The Economist Takes on the Myth of Che
The wider the cult spreads, the further it strays from the man. ... Guevara was a ruthless and dogmatic Marxist, who stood not for liberation but for a new tyranny. In the Sie...
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FBI Report on Blackwater Shootings
It's one thing when some left-wing congressman from Vermont starts yapping about Blackwater in an effort to score some cheap political points against President Bush. It's anot...
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Abu Muqawama needs another 348 pages to read like he needs a hole in the head...
But this report on the (in)effectiveness of the Israeli Air Force in the 2006 War with Hizbollah is one he'll read cover-to-cover. Frustrated by its inability to stem rocket a...
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"Persian Influence"
MountainRunner went back and read through the transcript of a Department of Defense blogger round-table and noted the number of times the military spokesman used the phrase "P...
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National WWI Museum
Charlie was reminded over Veterans' Day weekend of the relatively new National WWI Museum in downtown Kansas City. Now, it's unlikely this blog has many KC based readers, but ...
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National Security Human Capital
Panel on the New Counterinsurgency Manual with LTC John Nagl and Sarah SewallThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) was honored to hold a panel discussion with Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, United States Army, and Sarah Sewall, Harvard Universit...
By John A. Nagl & Sarah Sewall
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On Patrol with Grunts in Iraq
Guardian reporter David Smith is reporting from his tour in Iraq with a U.S. Stryker Brigade. These are fantastic reports which -- to the shock of Guardianistas (the newspaper...
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SWJ Editors on today's WaPo Chat
The venerable editors of the Small Wars Journal (and associated blog) have been invited to partake in an online discussion hosted by the Washington Post:Join editor Dave Dileg...
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The Paradox in Pakistan
The Washington Post today highlights what has been, for Abu Muqawama, the central paradox of this crisis in Pakistan: Pervez Musharraf has tried to sell this introduction of e...
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The Defense Budget
Abu Muqawama gets nervous whenever the New York Times has a staff editorial on military issues. Believe it or not, the New York Times editorial board does not have anyone who ...
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