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Rice, Hash, and Afghanistan
There's been some interesting reporting the last couple days regarding rice shortages and food riots. Whether it be global warming, bad politics, or bad luck, these problems ...
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How Not to Dress Like an Army Colonel*
It was 80 degrees this weekend in our nation's capitol, which means that summer is soon upon us. Summer brings three things to Washington: oppressive heat, interns, and newl...
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England Expects ... you to look the other way
From today's New York Times: ON April 11, French commandos went in with guns blazing and captured a gang of pirates who days earlier had hijacked a luxury cruise ship, the Po...
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Winners and Losers
From today's Washington Post: Less than two years after it was fought, the Second Lebanon War is regarded by many Israelis as an embarrassment for a country that has long ta...
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Is this is a smart IO campaign or way out of bounds? You make the call.
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by...
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COIN Book Club #8 : The Utility of Force
"War no longer exists. Confrontation, conflict and combat undoubtedly exist all around the world...Nonetheless, war as battle in a field between men and machinery, ar as a mas...
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Obama's Iraq Policy
There has been a lot of confusion about Barack Obama's Iraq policy. I'm not sure this TNR piece by Michael Crowley clears things up completely, but it shows that the campaign ...
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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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Jihad 101
Steven Brooke has written an excellent review of three promising books on global jihad in the American Interest. Many thanks, Mike, for sending it along.A significant problem ...
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Lee Pitts: The Unsung Hero of Iraq
The uber-lefty Huffington Post has named their unsung heroes of Iraq, and on the list was Abu Muqawama's friend Lee Pitts. (Lee works for a prominent Republican senator in DC ...
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April CTC Sentinel
Abu Muqawama has but one problem with the excellent monthly published by West Point's Combating Terrorism Center, and that's the fact that it's only available as a .pdf. That ...
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We Are Abu Muqawama
Updated 23 June 2008.Dear Readers, following the departure of this fine blog's namesake (better known as Andrew Exum), small-forward Charlie (aka Erin Simpson) assumed a playe...
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UPDATE: Oops, sorry. We really did resupply the Taliban
And we really do suck at propaganda. For those who read about information operations in Afghanistan on this blog and who read yesterday's post on how ISAF's only response to a...
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The "NDU" Report
You might be wondering why we're not blogging on the Joseph Collins study on Iraq. If you ask us, it's gotten too much poorly-reported press already. Vinegar Joe Collins himse...
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Dr. iRack Ponders Basra
Dr. iRack here. He wants to thank AM for adding him to the list of guest bloggers! If anybody out there is wondering about the origins of Dr. iRack's “handle,” check out this ...
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Allow me to re-introduce myself
Snap! Everyone's favorite anthropologist -- Montgomery McFate, not Clifford Geertz -- lays the smack-down on Newsweek....
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Foreign Fighters in Iraq
If you guys (and gals) get the chance, check out the Clinton Watts article from Small Wars Journal on foreign fighters in Iraq. Abu Muqawama read it with his morning coffee....
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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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Blanford's Latest on Hizbollah
Nick Blanford's latest excellent report on Hizbollah's military preparations is getting a lot of notice on both sides of the Blue Line. Check it out. Abu Muqawama's analysis f...
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NATO Resupplies Taliban?
Kip has been following this story for some time in the Afghan news and was waiting for a wire or someone to break it on this side of the ocean to share it with you. If you wan...