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COIN and al-Jazeera
When al-Jazeera English first launched, Abu Muqawama's alter ego rapidly became one of their go-to guys for commentary on Iraq and Afghanistan. He was probably in their studio...
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Political Scientists Fight Back
Abu Muqawama's post earlier this weekend on Secretary Rice's managerial skills, or lack thereof, generated a lot of traffic in the comments. He ascribed this problem to her po...
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COIN Book Club, No. 2
We still persist in studying a type of warfare that no longer exists and that we shall never fight again, while we pay only passing attention to the war we lost in Indochina a...
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Kahl vs. Katulis
In case you haven't noticed the six (six!) posts today, Abu Muqawama has been using his Saturday to get caught up on his current affairs reading. He wants to highlight, then, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Beirut, it's never a good thing...
...when the price of small arms doubles....
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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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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...