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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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• Sustainable Security: Developing a Security Strategy for the Long Haul

  The inability of many states in the developing world to govern and police themselves effectively or to work collectively with their neigh­bors to secure their regions represen...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• Peaceful Insurgency?

  Kip has always been more interested in irregular warfare than insurgency, per se (just as another day he'll go into why he hates the word "counterinsurgency," even as one of i...

• Does Sec. Gates Read This Blog?

  Defense Secretary Gates is clearly on board for the big win in The Long War. If we here at Abu Muqawama had t-shirts, he'd totally wear one to work (possibly under his suit, ...

• Waving Goodbye to Hegemony

  Parag Khanna is so freaking smart. You know when you meet people and walk away thinking, Damn, I can spend the rest of my life in a library or traveling the world and still no...

• Air COIN Con

  Trust me. I love the Air Force. There is nothing that gives a better sense of security to the small unit counterinsurgent than knowledge that he's got a JDAM from Uncle Sam ...

• Benazir Bhutto, RIP

  Hospital sources are confirming Benazir Bhutto has, in fact, been killed in a massive suicide attack on a political rally. Most web sites are still saying she was wounded. The...

• 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...

• COIN Book Club, No. 5

  This week's edition of the COIN Book Club is another work of fiction: The Quiet American, by Graham Greene. Charlie will admit to this being one of her favorite books of all t...

• COIN Book Club, No. 4

  Last week, Charlie linked to this moving tribute to Bernard Fall and the new book that's been penned by his widow.This week, the Counterinsurgency Book Club is going to spend ...

• 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...