insurgencies

At some level, dealing with insurgencies is less about military action than police work where you really get in and police a community as well as provide insurgents with a political outlet.

Matthew Yglesias » Counterinsurgency by Air 2007

In Violent Politics, William Polk investigates a series of insurgencies from the American Revolution to the War in Iraq, arguing that insurgencies are principally wars against foreign invaders and that they nearly always succeed.

Archive 2008-12-01 Tripp 2008

In Violent Politics, William Polk investigates a series of insurgencies from the American Revolution to the War in Iraq, arguing that insurgencies are principally wars against foreign invaders and that they nearly always succeed.

Cheating with conclusions Tripp 2008

Occupier’s record of successfully resisting insurgencies is near zero since WWII.

Matthew Yglesias » Shocking 2007

The sooner the idea of a total withdrawal of US military forces from Afghanistan at some point in the future becomes an allowed topic of discussion, the sooner greater space will open for negotiated solutions, since it is widely conceded that the most important motivation for the insurgencies is the presence of foreign troops.

Robert Naiman: Afghanistan: The Four Questions 2009

Initially, they were awed by the supposedly singular power of the American military to dominate and transform the planet; then, they were continually shocked and disbelieving when that same military, despite its massive destructive power, turned out to be incapable of doing so, or even of handling two ragtag insurgencies in two weakened countries, one of which, Afghanistan, was among the poorest and least technologically advanced on the planet.

The End of a Subprime Administration 2008

Africa to the rag-tag insurgencies in Southeast Asia, 33 conflicts are raging around the world today, and it's often innocent civilians who suffer the most.

Treasure of Baghdad 2010

From the bloody civil wars in Africa to the rag-tag insurgencies in Southeast Asia,

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

But, in my years of covering insurgencies and counter-insurgencies, that is a fanciful notion.

Douglas Farah 2008

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the surging drug violence in Mexico now resembles war-torn Colombia a generation ago, with criminal cartels looking like "insurgencies" battling for control of territory.

Secretary of State Clinton compares Mexico's drug violence to Colombia's 2010