Counter-insurgency

Counter-insurgency was not going to end corruption in the South Vietnamese government, nor was it going to tip control in the north.

Neil McCarthy: The Professor in Me Neil McCarthy 2011

Counter-insurgency measures in Afghanistan are not working and could be counter-productive unless the US and its allies start peace talks with the Taliban, a parliamentary committee report will say today.

MPs critical of Britain's policy in Afghanistan 2011

Counter-insurgency is an argument to win the support of the locals.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

Counter-insurgency was not going to end corruption in the South Vietnamese government, nor was it going to tip control in the north.

Neil McCarthy: The Professor in Me Neil McCarthy 2011

Counter-insurgency campaigns have momentum, like a football game when the crowd senses something before it happens.

Matthew Yglesias » Bipartisan Policy Center to Represent Hawks, Super-Hawks 2009

Counter-insurgency, a strategy developed by the colonial-era French and British armies, was embraced by the U.S. military as a way to combat the domestic uprising that threatened to plunge Iraq into a civil war; it was used in Afghanistan as well.

Long War Transforms Military Keith Johnson 2011

Apparently believing that this time was somehow different because his generals were smarter, Obama also chose to forget the lessons from Vietnam: Counter-insurgency is counterproductive because of the inevitable collateral damage done to local civilians by foreigners rooting out guerillas swimming in the sea of their own people.

Nathan Gardels: It's Time to Get Out of Afghanistan and Back to the Future Obama Promised 2010

Apparently believing that this time was somehow different because his generals were smarter, Obama also chose to forget the lessons from Vietnam: Counter-insurgency is counterproductive because of the inevitable collateral damage done to local civilians by foreigners rooting out guerillas swimming in the sea of their own people.

Nathan Gardels: It's Time to Get Out of Afghanistan and Back to the Future Obama Promised 2010

Counter-Terrorism: Anti-terrorism legislation, Counter-insurgency, Detentions following the September 11 attacks, Intelligence cycle management, Telephone tapping, War in Afghanistan

Counter Terrorism in shambles: Why? 2010

Counter-insurgency requires the complete transformation of a country -- at $200 billion per year, minimum.

Mark Olmsted: McChrystal: Anatomy of An Accident on Purpose 2010