counter-insurgency

The new troop levels aren't considered adequate for a long-term counter-insurgency war, like those in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Panetta Outlines Pentagon Cutbacks Julian E. Barnes 2012

One of the main principles of COIN counter-insurgency, unity of command, is honoured more in the breach than in the observance.

India's Future In Afghanistan 2011

We have tried everything under the sun, from counter-insurgency to counter-terrorism.

The costly errors of America's wars | Michael Shank 2011

Iraq was a debacle from the start; the shift from counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency in Afghanistan turned that conflict into a second disaster.

Doug Bandow: War in Libya: Barack Obama Gets in Touch with his Inner Neocon Doug Bandow 2011

As counter-insurgency expert John Nagl tells the Post, the “war on terror” was “enormously unfortunate because I think it pulled together disparate organizations and insurgencies.”

Wonk Room » Well Past Time To Retire ‘War On Terror’ 2009

Iraq was a debacle from the start; the shift from counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency in Afghanistan turned that conflict into a second disaster.

Doug Bandow: War in Libya: Barack Obama Gets in Touch with his Inner Neocon Doug Bandow 2011

Bush fell right into his trap, naively believing that a decentralized network of underground terrorist cells could be destroyed through high-altitude bombing, and sending U.S. forces into fighting bloody counter-insurgency wars in Islamic countries with a long tradition of resistance to foreign invaders.

Stephen Zunes: The Killing of Bin Laden and the Threat of Al Qaeda Stephen Zunes 2011

Iraq was a debacle from the start; the shift from counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency in Afghanistan turned that conflict into a second disaster.

Doug Bandow: War in Libya: Barack Obama Gets in Touch with his Inner Neocon Doug Bandow 2011

It is not known which project the men had been working on, but it is thought that the bus – which was being escorted by other armoured vehicles – had just left the counter-insurgency school run by Nato at Camp Julien in the west of the city and was heading for Camp Phoenix, a US base involved in training Afghan soldiers and policemen.

Kandahar suicide attack kills three 2011

Iraq was a debacle from the start; the shift from counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency in Afghanistan turned that conflict into a second disaster.

Doug Bandow: War in Libya: Barack Obama Gets in Touch with his Inner Neocon Doug Bandow 2011