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Mr. Ignatius, what do they really want??
Like a tingly spider sense behind his ears, Londonstani felt there was something amiss in the time-space continuum that would only be resolved by his posting on the AM blog to...
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Yellow Shirts vs. Red Shirts
The ASEAN Summit in Bangkok has been shut down with mass protests and clashes between pro-government groups, supporters of the previous government, and the military/police for...
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On the original unconventional warfare...
I don't know why I bother reading Charles Krauthammer's columns on issues relating to international security. They are always filled with ridiculous lines such as:Having thus ...
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Nagl and Exum and Gentile on The World (UPDATED!)
Matthew Bell sent me an email yesterday saying that his special on counter-insurgency for The World was going to run today. You can listen to it here. Bell also warned me, tho...
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Virtual War on Hizballah
The most significant thing about this story -- and this technology -- is the way in which ordinary Israelis can now carry out DOS attacks on a declared enemy of the state. If ...
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Reading the Sunday Washington Post
Several things in today's Post caught my eye this morning: 1. We should all applaud Phillip Bennett for his excellent observation that in all the books written on America's wa...
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If anyone was looking for a definition of "unconventional warfare"...
The U.S. Navy is defenseless against semi-naked, trash-talking Chinese: Maritime experts were given a rare glimpse of the underlying capabilities of the Chinese navy on Sunda...
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Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals, meanwhile...
The ability of U.S.-led forces to secure and protect the population of Afghanistan is the most pressing question we face in the next 18 months in Central Asia. But folks, the ...
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The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
With a historian's sweep, the unparalleled access of a New York Times White House correspondent and an ability to explain complex dilemmas in a gripping narrative, Sanger&...
By David Sanger
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Pivot Point: Asia Panel
In session five of the conference, Dr. Campbell presented on CNAS’s new publication iAsia: the Power of Balance, followed by comments from the distinguished panelists: Robert...
By Victor Cha
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U.S. China Relations in the Era of Globalization
"I think, if you ask many people outside of the United States — and, indeed, historians, maybe, 10 or 15 years from now — what is the key feature of global politics, it might ...
By Kurt Campbell
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If this is impartial reporting then Abu Muqawama is Pedro Martinez
Abu Muqawama was reading this article in the New York Times about the controversy surrounding a shipment of Chinese arms to Zimbabwe, and his first thought was, "Good. Both Ch...
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Exum on the Gates Speech
Andrew Exum weighs in over on Harvard's Middle East Strategy blog on the speech by Sec. Gates to the Association of American Universities. Since 9/11, the U.S. and its allies...
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More Sunday Reading and the Future of War Among the People
Sara Corbett has written an impressive article in this week's NY Times Magazine on how cell phones are transforming the world. Some of the highlights. First, the US Army may ...
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David Petraeus and His Three-Ring Circus
The circus is in town! The circus is in town! Today, Gen. David Petraeus will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee (step forward, Sens. Clinton and McCain) and th...
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Olympic Hurdles
Whoever becomes the master of a city accustomed to freedom, and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed himself; because, when there is a rebellion, such a city justif...
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Le Ratissage
THE French cut off the medina with three cordons of troops, through which no Arab could escape. Inside the medina were detachments of Foreign Legionnaires, colonial infantry...
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Grand (and not so grand) Strategy
We don't talk much about strategy, much less grand strategy, around here. But earlier this week, Charlie had the privilege of participating in a day long workshop on just tha...
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R2P, Post-colonialism, and the Incoherence of Western Liberals
We here are Abu Muqawama had grown used to unintelligible metaphors being the only notable contribution of New York Times columnists toward foreign policy debates. But things ...
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Public Diplomacy Starts at the Top
You know who's not very good at this whole public diplomacy thing? President Bush. We here at Abu Muqawama stay out of the whole presidential politics thing, but that's okay b...