How To Use Insurgency In A Sentence
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Counterinsurgency operations failed to end support for the separatists.
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She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities.
Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
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But these statistics represent neither success nor failure in this complex counterinsurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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The insurgency is concealed in rugged terrain and grows stronger.
Times, Sunday Times
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We hear much about counterinsurgency, for instance, but almost nothing about insurgency.
The Times Literary Supplement
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To counter the insurgency, a multidiscipline intelligence collection effort must be used.
FM 7-98 Chapter 7 - Combat Support
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And yet, the reason why most wars today are asymmetrical is precisely due to the fact that America has held the world in a territorial stasis where conventional warfare does not bring as much benefit as insurgency does.
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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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It became the stronghold of the armed insurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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I anticipate the burning of our sea ports, havoc of our frontiers, household insurgency, with a long train of et ceteras, which is enough for a man to have met once in his life.
Letters
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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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Peasant leaders say their communities are still targeted in a counter-insurgency campaign by the military that intimidates poor, mainly indigenous civilians.
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The rebels waging the armed insurgency have in the past also set free soldiers or policemen captured during fighting with government forces.
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Trust among the local population is the most precious commodity in any counterinsurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the insurgency is trying to overthrow this regime, it is contending with a formidable obstacle that successful rebels of the 20th century generally did not face: A democratically elected government.
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His description of the origins of the Vietnamese Communist party, for example, is wrong in almost every particular; his warm admiration for John Paul Vann, the mythomaniac American counter-insurgency officer whose career was detailed in Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer-prize winning Bright and Shining Lie (1988), is particularly perverse.
The Atlantic and Its Enemies by Norman Stone
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Botanical humans are at war with a cervine insurgency that has greater defoliation power than a squadron-load of Agent Orange.
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The weaponry is then used partly to beat down the insurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because the structure of the Iraqi insurgency is horizontal as opposed to hierarchical, it cannot be decapitated.
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From describing the Iraqi insurgency as being in its "last throes" (when it was patently just getting revved up for its second throes) to calling the acceptability of waterboarding a "no-brainer" (when even the people who conduct it say that the information it yields cannot be relied upon), he continues to defend the indefensible with the implausible and the discredited.
Ellis Weiner: International Man of Mystery
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But the threat of insurgency diminishes as an election nears.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the war, he learned the guerrilla tactics of the bushwhackers, jayhawkers and other insurgency groups who tried, by any means, to halt the progress of Union forces.
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Certainly the most disturbing development as the crime insurgency continues is the appearance of the police cracking under strain.
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Our growing military engagement in Guatemala, Cuba, and Vietnam created a counter-insurgency mentality among political and military leaders who hoped to stifle spreading "brushfire" wars through the deployment of counter-guerrilla forces of their own.
A Special Supplement: Anthropology on the Warpath in Thailand
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The Indian army used classic counterinsurgency tactics, taught to them by the British.
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Though they claim he supports the insurgency because of his ideological opposition to the occupation, they soon lapse into talk of daring criminal exploits.
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It was a twin-engine turboprop attack aircraft built for counterinsurgency work.
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Only the most revisionist historian would characterize the Confederacy as an insurgency.
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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.
Times, Sunday Times
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BERG: Yes, well, I don't believe that scenario because every time that news of new atrocities committed by Americans in Iraq becomes public, more and more of the every day Iraqi people who try to hold out, to try to be peaceful people, lose it and join the -- what we call the insurgency, what I call the resistance against the occupation of one sovereign nation.
CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2006
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Among them will be, without question, a large contingent of CIA and special forces operatives whose specialty is counter-insurgency.
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Police also said security forces were still two luxury hotel and a Jewish center terrorist insurgency.
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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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The insurgency is concealed in rugged terrain and grows stronger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Senor, the former U.S. occupation official, agrees that Saddam's trial could be a "short-term stimulant" for the insurgency.
Reckoning in Iraq
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The counter-insurgency force has a long list of achievements to its credit.
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It is the latest U.S. military push against the insurgency.
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Coalition forces is primarily concentrated in Baghdad and in areas west and north of the capital; the diverse, multigroup insurgency is led principally by Sunni Arabs whose only common denominator is a shared desire to oust the Coalition and end US influence in Iraq
The 2004 CIA World Factbook
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This is a shallow 'catchall' phrase, not unlike that used by John MacCain on the campaign trail who portrays the insurgency (or multiple insurgencies) in Iraq as that of Al Qaeda.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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More than 1,100 people were killed in 2009 in violence linked to the Maoist insurgency, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described as the gravest internal security threat facing India.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Major Miller claimed that the British government "sleepwalked" into Helmand in 2006 "without any meaningful reconstruction plan, without the resources to undertake nation building tasks, and, critically, without any desire to fight a major insurgency.
The British National Party
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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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She asked how it happened that ordinary Salvadorans went from decades of passive acceptance to active insurgency in a short time.
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He was sent with troops in 1599 to quell the continuing insurgency.
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Iraqan insurgency against the Government of Iraq and Coalition forces is primarily concentrated in Baghdad and in areas north, northeast, and west of the capital; the diverse, multigroup insurgency consists principally of Sunni Arabs with a shared desire to oust the Coalition, end US influence in Iraq, and reassert Sunni Arab dominance; a number of predominantly Shia militias, some associated with political parties, challenge governmental authority in Baghdad and southern Iraq
Political pressure groups and leaders
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A mixed approach is possible that tries to combine elements of counter-insurgency with a long-term fallback strategy of containment is a possibility.
Howard Schweber: Three Choices in Afghanistan: Counter-Terrorist War, Counter-Insurgency, and Containment
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Fighting an insurgency is unlike anything taught in regular military manuals.
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The Nevada race represented perhaps the starkest showdown in the national battle between the Tea Party insurgency and the Obama/Dem vision, with Angle unabashedly arguing for dramatically scaled back or even non-existent government against Reid, the leading enabler of the Obama agenda.
Harry Reid wins!
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Maoist guerrilla-based insurgency [Pushpa Kamal DAHAL, also known as PRAHANDA, chairman; Dr. Baburam BHATTARAI, from Communist Party of Nepal/Maoist, chief negotiator]; numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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Apparently, our construction projects are also targets of the insurgency.
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No other insurgency has been so entirely captivated by the sheer joy of deliberate violence against the innocent.
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Grenier says the mood of the meeting was “heavily colored by the presence of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who interrupted one of the analysts who had first used the term insurgency to ask him why he had used that word, explaining, ‘This is not a term that we should use publicly because it conveys legitimacy on them that we obviously don’t want to convey.’”
The Longest War
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Over the period of time, there was a gap in terms of the number of forces that should have been on the ground and what I call the incipient growth of this insurgency.
CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2005
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ROBERTSON: Well, what the Taliban has been trying to do, according to NATO commanders, is turn from a phase one insurgency, which is small groups of armed men, trying to take control of perhaps a road or a strategic road junction, trying to fight limited skirmishes, to ambush convoys, to turn it into what they call a phase two insurgency.
CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007
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But he does not explore the culpability of the Polish leaders who decided to launch the insurgency.
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The homegrown Afghan insurgency was defeated in the 2001 invasion but allowed to regroup during several years of what Obama and his advisers call inattention by the Bush administration.
Gates Takes On Woodward Book Charges
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The real issue today is how to beat the insurgency without eviscerating the American military to do it.
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If true, this would give a certain immediacy for any effort to fracture the insurgency.
Won’t Make The Same Mistakes He Did | ATTACKERMAN
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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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Whether civil wars, insurgency, organised crime or terrorism, van Creveld maintains that these forms of conflict are nontrinitarian and cannot therefore be examined through the lens of Clausewitzian theory.
Chicago Boyz
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As of early November 2003, the aardwolf explained, the insurgency in central and northern Iraq was gaining momentum and beginning to tip the balance against the Americans.
State of War
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The core of the insurgency is made up of Sunni Muslim militants who oppose the polls.
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As a critique of U. S.-funded programs, however, it is narrowly focused, citing only two such initiatives as examples, and these in forbidding Kandahar and Helmand, home to the bulk of the insurgency.
Letters to the Editor
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As a recent Amnesty International report makes clear, ‘The use of paramilitaries continues to be integral to the military's counter-insurgency strategy’.
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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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And a slugfest is just what the '04 race could become, especially if Dean's insurgency continues to pick up steam.
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BLITZER: That seems to be a significant -- almost three years into this war, it's not only an insurgency that's undermining the U. S.-led effort, but now it's turning into what he calls sectarian violence.
CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2006
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On Nov. 3, Mr. Musharraf suspended the constitution and said he was imposing emergency rule because of an Islamist insurgency and because of what he called the meddling of the judiciary.
End of Pakistan's Emergency Rule Set
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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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Saying the "size or nature" of the insurgency hasn't changed appreciably is another way of saying Bush is completely failing in his attempt to attack and weaken the insurgency.
09/14/2005
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No amount of American military help could defat the Vietnamese insurgency.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: November 15, 2006
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As long as populations are menaced by banditry, civil war, guerrilla campaigns, and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be secure.
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S. strategy the insurgency while training the new Iraqi military to gradually on the job.
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These days, the sniffers are trained to understand hand signals too as they have to take part in anti-insurgency operations.
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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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The problem I have is that our continued presence without any real plan for a timetable there is fueling the insurgency.
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“Very early after nine-eleven, U.S. intelligence agencies launched a series of operations that enabled them to locate and target key individuals in groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgency, and renegade Shia militias, or so-called special groups,” Wade said.
Bodily Harm
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The US command also announced that it is stepping up counter-insurgency training for newly arrived officers to give them the latest tactics about protecting patrols from such attacks.
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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.
WN.com - Articles related to It's India's poor who need British aid, not its military and business elites
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Western officials say that the counter-insurgency effort against the Taliban should be strengthened by the unification of the Nato and US missions in Afghanistan under the single command of McKiernan no--the missions will not be unified, they will just have the same commander, double-hatted, which is due to be confirmed by Congress later this month. posted by Mark, Ottawa at 8:27 AM
Afstan: Greater restrictions on ISAF air strikes
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The weaponry is then used partly to beat down the insurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's the nature of this counterinsurgency operation ...
Times, Sunday Times
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Several years of counter-insurgency drives destroyed the remaining guerrilla bases.
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Despite the Indian and American efforts to suppress the Maoist insurgency, it escalated more acceleratingly across Nepal.
International Recognition of Maoist People's War
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Much as some may think otherwise, counter-insurgency and its cousin counter-terrorism are old businesses with a lot of history.
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December 1st, 2009 6: 27 pm ET my neighbor lost his boy to this Bush debacle stop this war now bomb the bejesus out of the insurgency and lets bring the boys home
Just In: Key Obama speech excerpts released
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The president's foreign policy advisors stress the insurgency will not derail Iraqi elections scheduled for early 2005.
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A simple theoretical construct underlies the theory and practice of counterinsurgency warfare.
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Most Americans are unnerved when Bush and his top officials insist the insurgency is in its last throes when the facts are obvious: according to the military, the insurgency was about 5,000 strong in NOvember of 2003.
06/29/2005
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There are quite a few aircraft like this available, and they are used by many third world countries for border patrol and counter-insurgency.
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Leading the insurgency is the town's mayor and an ambitious councilman.
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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
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This type of insurgency is not promoted by an outside government.
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Some much more subtle and effective form of counter-insurgency strategy is necessary.
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Last time you were here, in April, you suggested that we might have been seeing the end of the insurgency.
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The reconstructed army and police force, who recently refused to fight insurgency, cannot resolve the law and order problem.
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He has led a violent armed insurgency for 15 years.
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The coalition is encouraged by President Obama's commitment and we remain resolute to empowering the Afghan people to reject the insurgency and build their own future.
McChrystal weighs in on Obama's Afghanistan plan
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The Iraqis 'War yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' The Iraqis\ 'War'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Despite the NIE\'s revelation that the Iraq War is a "cause c�l�bre" for jihadists, foreign fighters still represent a small proportion of the insurgency in Iraq.
The Iraqis' War
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These are in fact unquiet borderlands and are witness to cross-border insurgency, gun-running, narcotics and AIDS, smuggling, money laundering, trafficking in women and illicit immigration.
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In recent months an Egyptian military operation to combat the rising insurgency has helped to slow down the trafficking business.
Times, Sunday Times
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The transfer of sovereignty, the election, they didn't deal a mortal blow to the insurgency.
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It has placed U.S. soldiers in a type of guerrilla war that even many counter-insurgency experts consider impossible to win.
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But the threat of insurgency diminishes as an election nears.
Times, Sunday Times
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His big point is that the US mainly needs counter-insurgency forces and expertise, but instead has ordinary infantry etc.
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Cooper arrived in Iraq in early 2005 as a major-general fresh from acting as a deputy theatre commander in Afghanistan, where the insurgency had then largely been stabilised.
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All counter-insurgency struggles have to be waged at both the military and the political levels.
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The government is reported to be concerned about the growing insurgency in the South.
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The big deal with the insurgency is they have to keep doing things that can get them killed.
Matthew Yglesias » Shocking
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Alternatively, one could imagine using constabulary units for policing countrywide, overlaying them with smaller combat formations to fight the insurgency.
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In fact, the general frequently finds himself apologising for the disastrous consequences of counterinsurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of us are fighting the insurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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I first saw it in '96 as part of a postgrad module on terrorism and counter-insurgency and thought it was fantastic.
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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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It is issuing a report this week that recommends, among other points, that the United States use more "nuanced, noncombative rhetoric" that avoids sweeping declarations like "war on terror," "global insurgency," even "the Muslim world.
Learning to Live With Radical Islam
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Cheney says this insurgency is in its last throes.
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However, they are very good at peace-keeping, counter-insurgency and all of that traditional imperial constabulary-type work.
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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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A stronger United Nations is needed to counter insurgency and warlordism in the poor regions of the world as well as the richer ones.
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Even proponents of counterinsurgency are hard-pressed to explain the plan.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government is reported to be concerned about the growing insurgency in the South.
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Remember when he said the insurgency was comprised of dead-enders, bitter-enders and thugs?
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Counterinsurgency involves military action but also depends on civilian relationships to succeed.
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They are well equipped, better armed and have a more acute sense of counter-insurgency tactics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Officers will learn counterinsurgency command and leadership skills.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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On the basis of what it calls exclusive research, it warns that the insurgency is also exercising a "significant amount of psychological control, gaining more and more political legitimacy in the minds of the Afghan people who have a long history of shifting alliances and regime change".
11/23/2007
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He said U.S. help would be forthcoming in military logistics and development programs for insurgency-hit areas of the country.
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Those unguarded ammo dumps became the arsenals of insurgency.
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As long as populations are menaced by banditry, civil war, guerrilla campaigns, and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be secure.
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The latest insurgency is making it very difficult for the British forces to maintain their ‘softly softly’ approach to policing the area.
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Negroponte could have said the insurgency is as strong as it's ever been, but Bush wouldn't have liked that.
09/14/2005
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Sarah Palin represents a strand in Republican thinking that sees the party's mission as perpetual insurgency against an un-American conspiracy run by a cosmopolitan Washington elite.
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You simply don't have enough troops to get the insurgency under control.
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You are no longer fighting an insurgency.
The Sun
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But the numbers are not enough to quell an ideological insurgency against a government that is seen as predatory, selfish and corrupt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Hezb-i-Islami (HIA) party led by a former premier Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which runs a separate insurgency force from the Taliban against the government and NATO and U. S.-led forces, said the offer was "completely unacceptable and out of question".
Reuters: Top News
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I heard the general say that the destruction of the city had "broken the back of the insurgency."
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Police also said security forces were still two luxury hotel and a Jewish center terrorist insurgency.
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This concept was rejected as trash and thrown into dust in 1990 as a result of anti - India insurgency.
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Since President Obama took office 21 months ago, US policy in Afghanistan has reflected a mistaken premise that the insurgency is a monolithic organization capable of being defeated by a mixture of massive security and development efforts that would drive a wedge between the Afghan population and the insurgents.
Matthew Hoh: Cautious Optimism for Talks in Afghanistan
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Militant Uighurs have for decades been fighting a low-level insurgency to gain independence for lightly populated but resource-rich Xinjiang, which borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and several unstable Central Asian states.
China: Attacks thwarted in Xinjiang
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He says U.S. and Iraqi forces are making progress fighting the insurgency.
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Those triumphs quickly turned sour when looting and lawlessness took over the thinly patrolled streets, embittering residents, stalling reconstruction and giving the insurgency a jump-start on the occupation authorities.
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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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The insurgency's just a blip in the road, goddamnit.
The Invasion Of Iraq
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Political pressure groups and leaders: Maoist guerrilla-based insurgency [Pushpa Kamal DAHAL, also known as PRACHANDA, chairman; Dr. Baburam BHATTARAI]; numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups
Nepal
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He said: 'We will not let this aberration knock us off our course to rid this country of the insurgency.
The Sun
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Once masters of counter-insurgency, our global reputation has been badly tarnished.
Times, Sunday Times
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But U.S. officials are ratcheting up the rhetoric, going so far as using the term insurgency to describe how Mexican cartels are challenging the government.
U.S. Sees Heightened Threat in Mexico
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He provides extensive new details about the Taliban insurgency, which he calls a muscular and sophisticated enemy that uses modern propaganda and systematically reaches into Afghanistan's prisons to recruit members and even plan operations.
D-Day
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Grappling with insurgency appears to be the daily assignment with no end in sight.
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They were ethnic Mien, fiercely independent ‘hill people’ who had been recruited by the CIA to fight the Communist insurgency in Laos and Vietnam, with the explicit promise of safe haven in America if they lost.
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The August aardwolf said that the UN bombing was part of a strategy by a new and bold insurgency to discredit and isolate the U.S.-led coalition, and warned that insurgents and terrorists had the capability to carry many more attacks against “soft targets.”
State of War
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A Pentagon report now says the Taliban has now regrouped into what it calls a resilient insurgency likely to step up attacks on U.S. troops and others.
CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2008
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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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Another obfuscation involved the use of the term 'counter-insurgency'.
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Caught unprepared for the insurgency, the Pentagon is now showering money on devices designed to give soldiers an edge in such fighting.
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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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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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At the same time, British Army doctrine, reflecting many years of patient counter-insurgency operations, had emphasised the need for controlled and accurate fire in the attack.
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Arun is a sensitive young man from the capital who spurns a comfortable inheritance and takes a job teaching in a rural elementary school, in the very heartland of the insurgency.
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NepalMaoist guerrilla-based insurgency [Pushpa Kamal DAHAL, also known as PRACHANDA, chairman; Dr. Baburam BHATTARAI]; numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups
Political pressure groups and leaders
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The launching of Operation Barbarossa made an obvious start point, and the end of 1941 when the German insurgency stumbled in the Russian winter suggested itself as a good place to end the first novel.
My novels #13: Operative Vampyr
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The third insurgency seems to be tiring of having all the fighting happening in their backyard, and they are fearful that they will be excluded from the upcoming elections.
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High technology has given U.S. counter-insurgency tactics a punch they didn't have in Vietnam.
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The operations served as a basis for new techniques in counter-insurgency warfare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Turnout was lowest in the south and east of the country where the insurgency is strongest.
Times, Sunday Times
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a nascent insurgency
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Almost exactly a year later, Cheney didn’t quibble about the term insurgency when he was speaking with Larry King on CNN but instead told viewers that it was in its “last throes.”
The Longest War
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Additionally, the fact that General Petreaus 'request this past summer that the Haqqani Network be placed on the US government's global terrorist group black list, thereby disallowing any possibilities for negotiations, has been disregarded, is a positive step that keeps open the chances for a settlement between the Afghan government and a major part of the Afghan insurgency.
Matthew Hoh: Cautious Optimism for Talks in Afghanistan
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Today they are lighter, faster and schooled in the complex art of counterinsurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
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At War With The MotoristDispatches from the pot-holed frontline of two-wheeled insurgency.
Internet picks of the week
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Political pressure groups and leaders: an insurgency against the Iraqi Interim Government and Coalition forces is primarily concentrated in Baghdad and in areas west and north of the capital; the diverse, multigroup insurgency is led principally by Sunni Arabs whose only common denominator is a shared desire to oust the Coalition and end US influence in Iraq
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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Some within the US war machine argue that a nastier insurgency is no bad thing, as it would estrange the Taliban more from the population they claim to govern.
The Taliban: Opening offices and options | Editorial
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The main missions of the aircraft, in addition to basic and advanced pilot training, are border patrol and counter-insurgency operations.
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In recent months an Egyptian military operation to combat the rising insurgency has helped to slow down the trafficking business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both men stuck with a few maybe a bit too long Rumsfeld was the man to transform a military from Cold War to regional skirmishes, and to topple a dictatory, but was a fiasco with an insurgency - Bush just couldn't let him go.
George's Diner.
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It can go into the Sunni areas where an insurgency already exists and increase the rift between the Sunni insurgents that the U.S. tends to term the nationalistic insurgency, that they are, in fact, trying to engage, trying to fold in to the political process.
CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2007
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In El Salvador in the 1980s, 55 special forces troops beat back a guerrilla insurgency while gradually integrating renegade militias into a newly professionalized national army.
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As long as populations are menaced by banditism, civil war, guerrilla campaigns and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be safe and secure.
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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.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the insurgency lacks the ideological coherence or organization it would need to grow into a more formidable force.
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Despite several decades of low-level insurgency, neither group could achieve their demand for separation.
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KOCH: And also of concern that to crack down on this insurgency, the new government is planning to bring back what it calls decent members of Saddam Hussein's army and police force.
CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2004
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They will put an end to the illicit drug trade, and quash the insurgency and end violence in Colombia.
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In addition, as members of the Sunni Awakening Movement reportedly peel off in disillusionment or disgust with the present largely Shiite government and rejoin the insurgency in significant numbers, his modest success is threatening to unravel behind him -- and so is American support for the Afghan War he now commands, according to the opinion polls.
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Just as post-bellum white southerners feared a black cultural revolution and thus acted in horrific, dehumanizing ways to squelch any inkling of Afro-cultural insurgency," he writes, "the cultural majority today fears specifically a Latino-cultural revolution which will rob them of their power to set the 'norm.'
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He receives detailed and painstaking instruction about the various phases and types of conflict, such as counter-insurgency warfare.
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Much as some may think otherwise, counter-insurgency and its cousin counter-terrorism are old businesses with a lot of history.
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They opportunistically interpret your silence as a signal that they've recruited you into some kind of insurgency against the medical profession.
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The Saudis and the Kuwaitis were the greatest supporters of the Sunni insurgency.
Israpundit
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But Mr. Keiler is mistaken in alleging that I blame the United States for the insurgency.
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Here then is a simple model of how tribalism may play out during a rebellion or tribal insurgency: A group of extended families gains control over a sub - clan.
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Yet instead of intensifying efforts to go after the traffickers and money launderers behind the insurgency, the U.S. government has pushed for broadscale aerial spraying of poppy fields.
‘Seeds of Terror’
