counter insurgency

Western policymakers recoil at the thought of getting bogged down in another bloody counter-insurgency operation in Somalia.

Protecting and influencing civilians is all the rage in counter-insurgency circles.

The recent joint army and marines counter-insurgency manual says the central aim is not to destroy the enemy but to protect civilians.

"We have never been better at taking bad people off the battlefield, " says John Nagl, an American counter-insurgency expert.

All this still seems well short of what many generals think is needed for an effective counter-insurgency campaign.

Now in Afghanistan, the general has fully embraced counter-insurgency and has sharply reduced the number of air strikes.

Whereas the American army and marines drew up a new manual on counter-insurgency in 2006, the British have yet to revise their doctrine.

General McChrystal sees counter-insurgency as an "argument" between the Taliban and the Afghan government, backed by the West.

Counter-insurgency is about engaging local populations, and that cannot be done from the air or from inside a Mastiff armoured vehicle.

However, we believe that the public prosecutor, and armed police force has enough counter-insurgency, all random deterrent.

Gen McChrystal's counter-insurgency strategy no doubt reaped dividends such as reducing casualties and winning hearts and minds.

Vice- President Joe Biden rejects the call for an enlarged counter-insurgency campaign against the Taliban.

Secretary Gates said in the past, counter-insurgency capabilities have been gained and lost, but this time they must be maintained.

He has funds, forces and a strategy: to combine rigorous counter-insurgency with efforts to promote development and good governance.

The emergency PR campaign was treated as a major counter-insurgency operation, which, of course, it was.

His counter-insurgency plan seeks to protect the Afghan population and win its allegiance to a legitimate Afghan government.

They no longer have time to rehearse major assault operations, and their training for counter-insurgency is hampered by equipment shortages.

This Orwellianism made it much harder for army officers to rely on the appropriate doctrine: a counter-insurgency strategy.

The big idea that bubbled up through the chain of command was a long-haul counter-insurgency campaign.

Fighting al-Qaeda was America's priority, but defeating it required a counter-insurgency campaign to hold the Taliban at bay.

Everybody agrees, having read their counter-insurgency manuals, on the importance of a legitimate government.

Some authorities have revived the darkest counter-insurgency tactics, rounding up undesirables and executing them.

Counter-insurgency requires large numbers of troops and policemen (the latter are too often weak, notoriously corrupt or drug-addled).

The Americans are providing aerial intelligence, counter-insurgency training and weaponry.

Counter-insurgency experts are urging them to be less bellicose.

America's new counter-insurgency doctrine espouses similar ideas about the need for "unity of effort" in military and civilian activity.

Though many fled to Afghanistan after Colonel Qaddafi's counter-insurgency, most kept their distance from al-Qaeda.

It conjures nightmares of failed states and offers remedies of nation-building and counter insurgency.

The massive use of rape as a weapon in the army's counter-insurgency war is a critical part of the ICC case.

It will pay for equipment and training needed for counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations.

In Pakistan, drone strikes are conducted to support a counter-insurgency operation.

He likes to talk about the oddness of "counter-insurgency maths" .

British forces are overstretched and have struggled to adapt to modern counter-insurgency campaigns.

They say the devices will be used to control rioters and in counter-insurgency operations.

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General Petraeus, who had just written a mould-breaking new manual on counter-insurgency, was put in charge.

It showed a feel for counter-insurgency that energised troops on the ground.

They have also ended an American military counter-insurgency training mission in the country.

Counter-insurgency requires "vast resources" of manpower and much stamina in America, says the manual.

Thus, my folder full of resources on counter-insurgency might be in folder 08174;

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