counterinsurgency

What do you think of continuing a counterinsurgency operation with the big success of counterterrorism at this point?

As for Iraq itself, after three years of disorientation, the United States has finally found a winning counterinsurgency strategy.

Pursuing and expanding that counterinsurgency would not reduce the threat of terrorist attack to the U. S. homeland.

This correlation does not mean that even the best U. S. counterinsurgency strategy will necessarily prevail in Afghanistan.

The administrations policy, unveiled in March, puts a high priority on protecting Afghan civilians as part of a counterinsurgency strategy.

And for Pakistan, not unlike other counterinsurgency efforts, there is a military piece of this.

Those were not counterinsurgency campaigns; instead, those were pure invasions in the name of counter-terrorism.

Similarly, the Vietnam War did teach a generation of U. S. leaders to be wary of getting dragged into counterinsurgency wars.

No one would disagree that the teams have potential as part of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's counterinsurgency campaign.

In the words of America's counterinsurgency manual, now akin to a warfighters' bible, "legitimacy is the main objective. "

Counterinsurgency experts point out that, historically, most campaigns fail when the host government is not determined to win.

Another study we recently completed casts doubt on short-term job creation as a counterinsurgency tactic.

Gates could have questioned the need for perpetual counterinsurgency campaigns.

Taliban support continues today, even though Pakistan is America's supposed ally in Afghanistan's anti-Taliban counterinsurgency.

Afghanistan policy experts have moved beyond state-building and counterinsurgency.

Why, then, would some argue against using counterinsurgency, the strategy designed to fight such uprisings?

Any counterinsurgency campaign, we're told, requires a very long commitment.

The larger use of U. S. military force now under discussion is, of course, the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan.

This is diagram of the U. S. counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

As a result, counterinsurgency was eliminated from the curriculum of American staff and war colleges.

He is best remembered for changing the way U. S. forces deal with counterinsurgency conflicts in the post-Cold War era.

Our counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan is really focused on winning the people.

After serving in Iraq, Nagl helped General Petraeus write the Army's counterinsurgency doctrine in 2005 and 2006.

What is the central lesson of counterinsurgency?

Moreover, properly trained state-level officers, who know the local language and conditions, have a much better counterinsurgency record.

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