counterinsurgency

How To Use counterinsurgency In A Sentence

• The Kenyans have been counting on international aid groups to prop up their counterinsurgency campaign - the phrase "hearts and minds" crops up repeatedly in conversations with the soldiers. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• The most important phase of any counterinsurgency or counterterrorism campaign is recognizing that the threat exists.
• Southern Command significantly broadened the school's core curriculum around the military doctrine of counterinsurgency warfare and expanded enrollment to train -- "inculcate" is the word Gill uses more than once -- Latin American militaries in the cause of anticommunism. Booman Tribune
• Performance of the respective intelligence agencies in cooperating with the United States on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations and in purging themselves of policies, programs and personnel that provide material support to extremist networks that target U.S. troops or undermine US objectives in the region. Wonk Room » Moving Beyond A Transactional U.S.-Pakistan Partnership
• Even proponents of counterinsurgency are hard-pressed to explain the plan. Times, Sunday Times
• Counterinsurgency involves military action but also depends on civilian relationships to succeed.
• Officers will learn counterinsurgency command and leadership skills. Times, Sunday Times
• One Afghan politician believes that, while Gen. David Petraeus will almost certainly pursue a counterinsurgency strategy similar to his predecessor's, he will be less inclined to "coddle" Karzai on corruption than McChrystal was. The Economist: Give Petraeus A Chance
• In fact, the only time the phrase "hearts and minds" appears in the U.S. Army's counterinsurgency field manual is in an appendix—written by Australian expert David Kilcullen— that explains that the hearts-and-minds approach is not about making people like you but about affecting the decisions they make. In Afghanistan With Our Warrior Elite
• Only at mid-week, with Washington aboil, did he arrive in the capital for a counterinsurgency conference at the National Press Club and quietly "endorse" "General McChrystal's assessment. Tom Engelhardt: How to Trap a President in a Losing War: Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes