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Your Moment of Zen
"I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who were trying to defeat us in Iraq."-- George W. Bush to Lt. General Ray Odierno today, as qu...
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National Security Leaders Forum with Admiral Eric T. Olson, USSOCOM Transcript
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted an evening speech by Admiral Eric T. Olson, Eighth Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), on Monday, Marc...
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National Security Forum with Admiral Eric T. Olson
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted an evening speech by Admiral Eric T. Olson, Eighth Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), on Monday, Marc...
By National Security Leaders Forum
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That's right, a cocktail napkin
The Front Page, a popular Washington, D.C., bistro, was an unlikely place for the genesis of a radical new war strategy for Iraq. But on Nov. 7, 2005, over gourmet burgers and...
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A World at War?
Kip finds the recent developments in South America to be truly troubling and a reminder of the global nature of fissures and threats that came to the fore on September 11, 200...
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At War No Longer
More good news from the home front: Network insiders report that CNN has canceled its long-running program The Week at War, CNN's excellent weekly wrap-up of events in Iraq an...
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Week in Review: Best of the Best (25 Feb - 2 Mar)
We had a big week here at AM: lots of posts, lots of traffic. Here are the highlights:Monday: No Better Time than Now...for the Navy Tuesday: Economics of Assassination Wed...
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AM Job Offering
Overweight? Under-trained? Non-branch qualified? Still wondering what will become of your career after that general officer letter of reprimand? Well, it seems the Army may be...
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Take it on the Road
Soon, you will be able to be a PowerPoint Ranger, anywhere you want. Several companies are working on prototypes of cell phone projectors. Staff officers the world round are ...
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Marine Memorial Scholarship Fund
[Charlie received this via email from Marine pal Owen West and thought it might be of interest to our dear readers.] "The tribute of deeds has been paid in part; for the dead ...
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Facts and Figures
The bloggers at Abu Muqwama posted 140 times in February (a record) and had over 53,000 readers. Thanks, gang!...
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Albert Bitton, RIP
Tiny little Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago has now sacrificed two of its graduates to the war in Iraq. Albert Bitton was the second. This is an incredibly moving photo es...
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Well, well, well...
The Air Force, in a stunning upset against the Boeing Company, awarded a $40 billion contract for aerial refueling tankers on Friday to a partnership between Northrop Grumman ...
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Organizing the Masses
Organizing a protest or boycott has always been a difficult affair. After all, the individual logic simply doesn't add up. For example, "why should I boycott a product that ...
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GEN Casey, Meet LTG Caldwell
As our regular readers know, Charlie likes to spend her spare time looking for a pike on which to place the Marine Commandant's head. But it's time to share the love a bit. O...
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Discussion with Fred Kaplan, Author of "Daydream Believers"
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted a lunchtime speech with celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan on February 29, 2008 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington,D...
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Seymour Butts
An excellent article by Kevin Poulsen in Wired Magazine explains a pernicious form of prank calling known as “swatting.” At 4 in the morning of May 1, 2005, deputies from the ...
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The Next Israel-Hizbollah War
The initial post by Michael Young on Harvard's Middle East Strategy blog on the likelihood of another war between Israel and Hizbollah has evolved into a discussion between Mi...
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Hell Yeah!
The only king we've ever had in Tennessee was Elvis, but in Abu Muqawama's mind this exactly what they should be like: in combat, leading from the front. Bravo, Harry. Update:...
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Three Reasons to Worry About Iraq
Fred Kaplan has a great connect-the-dots piece on Iraq, taking 3 key news articles and explaining why the honeymoon is nearly over. 1) NYT reports that the Presidential Counci...