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COIN Manual Plagiarized?

· Tuesday, November 6, 2007 · 15 comments

FSO’s Rebel Over Iraq Assignment Policy

· Thursday, November 1, 2007 · 13 comments

Washington Post: the Surge is Working

· Sunday, October 14, 2007 · 14 comments

Open Source Counterinsurgency

· Tuesday, October 2, 2007 · 11 comments

New Interagency COIN Manual

· Friday, September 14, 2007 · 1 comment

Moving the Goalposts in Iraq?

· Tuesday, September 11, 2007 · 9 comments

Disbanding Saddam’s Army Revisited

· Thursday, September 6, 2007 · 6 comments

John Nagl on ‘Daily Show’

· Friday, August 24, 2007 · 13 comments

LTC John Nagl, author of How to Eat Soup With a Knife appears on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart explaining Counterinsurgency doctrine. Stewart’s reaction to “Be polite – Be professional – Be prepared to Kill” is priceless.

McCain ‘Not Even Cautiously Optimistic’ About Maliki Government

· Monday, August 20, 2007 · 2 comments

Iraq Progress Metrics

· Monday, August 20, 2007 · 2 comments

Rudy Giuliani’s Dangerously Stupid Foreign Policy Vision

· Wednesday, August 15, 2007 · 32 comments

Iraqi Insurgents ‘Thinking and Adaptive’

· Tuesday, August 14, 2007 · 7 comments

Successes in Iraq Hiding Real Problems

· Thursday, August 9, 2007 · 1 comment

Iran’s Rising Influence

· Tuesday, August 7, 2007 · 4 comments

Al Qaeda in Iraq Facing Rebellion From Within

· Monday, July 23, 2007 · 2 comments

Pentagon Pays $400K for Marketing Platitudes

· Saturday, July 21, 2007 · 11 comments

Al Qaeda’s Role in Iraq

· Friday, July 13, 2007 · 25 comments

Iraq Benchmark Report – Security

· Thursday, July 12, 2007 · 15 comments

Petraeus Says War Will Take Years

· Tuesday, July 10, 2007 · 5 comments

Al Qaeda in Trouble in Iraq?

· Thursday, July 5, 2007 · 7 comments

Reporter Wants Out of Afghanistan, Blames Congressional Democrats

· Tuesday, June 26, 2007 · 3 comments

Bloomberg Switches Parties Again, Setting up Independent White House Bid

· Wednesday, June 20, 2007 · 12 comments

The Military Instrument

· Friday, June 15, 2007 · No comments

Pentagon: Iraq Surge Not Working

· Thursday, June 14, 2007 · 15 comments

Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq

· Monday, June 11, 2007 · 2 comments

Iraq Sunnis Revolt Against al-Qaeda

· Friday, June 1, 2007 · 4 comments

Best of OTB – May 27, 2003

· Sunday, May 27, 2007 · 1 comment

Internet Pseudonymity Redux

· Monday, May 14, 2007 · 7 comments

Preparing for the Next War

· Wednesday, May 9, 2007 · 1 comment

Serving Officer Blasts Generals’ Failures

· Friday, April 27, 2007 · 17 comments

Guerrilla War and Failed States

· Monday, April 16, 2007 · 3 comments

Untrained Soldier Killed in Iraq?

· Thursday, April 5, 2007 · 11 comments

Iraq Terrorist Abu Omar al-Baghdadi Arrested

· Friday, March 9, 2007 · 3 comments

Small Armies and Small Wars

· Thursday, March 1, 2007 · 2 comments

Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Wounded, Deputy Killed

· Thursday, February 15, 2007 · 6 comments

Jonah Goldberg’s Bet

· Friday, February 9, 2007 · 6 comments

Battle in Najaf

· Monday, January 29, 2007 · 12 comments

Algerian Terrorists Rebrand as Al Qaeda

· Friday, January 26, 2007 · 3 comments

Quadrillage By Any Other Name . . .

· Friday, January 26, 2007 · 5 comments

Insurgencies Rarely Win But Their Opponents Often Lose

· Wednesday, January 17, 2007 · 6 comments

Iraqi Civil War vs. American Civil War

· Friday, January 12, 2007 · 14 comments

The Iraqi Army: A Year of Progress

· Thursday, January 11, 2007 · 3 comments

Highlights of the Iraq Strategy Review Slideshow

· Wednesday, January 10, 2007 · No comments

Iraqis Near Oil Revenue Distribution Deal

· Saturday, December 9, 2006 · 1 comment

Iraq Study Group: Quick Reactions

· Wednesday, December 6, 2006 · 7 comments

Cutting Off the Sunnis to Spite Our Face?

· Friday, December 1, 2006 · 7 comments

Iraq in Chaos, Not Civil War

· Wednesday, November 29, 2006 · 16 comments

Hezbollah Training Iraq’s Mahdi Army

· Tuesday, November 28, 2006 · 9 comments

Marines Say Western Iraq Lost

· Tuesday, November 28, 2006 · 11 comments

Iraq Options: Go Big, Go Long or Go Home

· Monday, November 20, 2006 · 11 comments

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