How To Use Counterinsurgency In A Sentence
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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
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The most important phase of any counterinsurgency or counterterrorism campaign is recognizing that the threat exists.
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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
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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
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Even proponents of counterinsurgency are hard-pressed to explain the plan.
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Counterinsurgency involves military action but also depends on civilian relationships to succeed.
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Officers will learn counterinsurgency command and leadership skills.
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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
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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
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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
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McCain questioned Clinton about whether the Obama administration was properly pursuing the civilian side of our counterinsurgency strategy ...
Gates defends new Afghan war strategy
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In fact, the general frequently finds himself apologising for the disastrous consequences of counterinsurgency.
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Counterinsurgency policy, as annunciated by General Petreaus, is to have a reliable local partner, which we do not have," Will continued.
Arianna And George Will Agree On Afghanistan, On ABC's 'This Week' (VIDEO)
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Today they are lighter, faster and schooled in the complex art of counterinsurgency.
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The unpublicized Bush review outlined some of the policies that the Obama administration would later adopt, including treating Afghanistan as a regional problem that included Pakistan and building up the Afghan state at the provincial level, something that hitherto had been largely ignored, and it advocated an expanded counterinsurgency mission.
The Longest War
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There he consolidated his reputation as one of the pioneers of counterinsurgency warfare.
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America and its allies gear up for their big fight of the summer-to extend control over the southern province of Kandahar, which they call the cornerstone of the counterinsurgency campaign-the Taliban have been on a killing spree.
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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From a counterinsurgency perspective, wanting to stay in Iraq more than the Iraqis want the U.S. in Iraq is sheer astrategic madness.
Everytime You Say Goodbye I Say Hello | ATTACKERMAN
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The new military aid, which is contingent on congressional approval, is expected to amount to more than $2 billion over five years, would pay for equipment Pakistan can use for counterinsurgency and counterterror operations.
U.S. Plans Increased Military Aid for Pakistan
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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."'
How to Trap a President in a Losing War
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Then after the regime fell, and the transition between maneuver combat to what they call stability and support operations, or the current counterinsurgency, there was a lot of movement by those that wanted to fight the coalition to confiscate, move, hide, move to and secure themselves these weapons for future use.
CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2004
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Much of counterinsurgency is about developing relationships and through Abood, I am convinced that we were able to foster the close ties with local leaders and civilians we needed to keep us safe.
Zachary J. Iscol: Don't turn the page on our translators
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But these statistics represent neither success nor failure in this complex counterinsurgency.
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We hear much about counterinsurgency, for instance, but almost nothing about insurgency.
The Times Literary Supplement
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However, while creating proxies is essential in winning a counterinsurgency, it requires that the proxies are loyal to the center that we claim to support.
The Progressives’ Static World
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At last realizing the futility of superior "kinetics" — roughly speaking, putting a lot of metal in the air — American forces belatedly adopted a counterinsurgency strategy.
The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam
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Obama's policies are certainly worthy of objurgation, especially his grievous misjudgment at the end of 2009 to cast an additional 30,000 troops into the Afghan abyss in support of a failing counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy.
Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama
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Trust among the local population is the most precious commodity in any counterinsurgency.
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The Indian army used classic counterinsurgency tactics, taught to them by the British.
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It was a twin-engine turboprop attack aircraft built for counterinsurgency work.
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But now that he is remaining in the Obama administration, the official said, he is likely to focus as well on the tasks he has envisioned in his public statements and writings, such as refitting the Pentagon to focus on “institutionalizing counterinsurgency skills and the ability to conduct stability and support operations,” rather than focusing just on traditional combat, as he recently wrote in a Foreign Affairs article.
Doin Thangs | ATTACKERMAN
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A counterinsurgency requires an insurgency against a legitimate government, whose authority can be reasserted.
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Counterinsurgency operations failed to end support for the separatists.
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But rural development has long been a staple of counterinsurgency efforts in predominantly agricultural economies facing guerrilla wars.
Wonk Room » Holbrooke Emphasizes Agricultural Development In Afghanistan
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June 18th, 2007 at 9: 32 pm nathan, roger is doing a good job on you, but just to return to my earlier notion: there is nothing intelligent about thinking of what we’re doing in iraq in the context of counterinsurgency. rather, it’s a case of a man with a hammer seeing a problem as a nail.
Matthew Yglesias » Edwards Versus Petraeus
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It is a utilitarian start to the inkspot method of counterinsurgency. linus Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Where The Troops Are Going
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It was not examined seriously at West Point or the Army War College, and the U.S. military jettisoned just about anything to do with counterinsurgency—all those counterguerrilla, “little-war” tactics and doctrines so romantically invoked during the Kennedy years.
Magic and Mayhem
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After some resesigning for counterinsurgency warfare and changes in armament, the craft was rechris - tened A-26A.
Guillermin, Louis F.
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Parts of this video contain "dramatized" scenes of insurgent forces operating in Central America and how they are defeated through the efforts of Army and Air Force counterinsurgency techniques.
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That's the nature of this counterinsurgency operation ...
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A simple theoretical construct underlies the theory and practice of counterinsurgency warfare.
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He dubbed the approach the "inkblot" strategy, for how counterinsurgency would slowly spread, village by village, on the map.
Military Innovator Who Sought New Approach to Battle in Vietnam
