counterinsurgency

Blowback is most important in counterinsurgency warfare, where you are out among the civilian population, and its goodwill matters — this, note, is the strategic frame of many of the military blowback critics — but it matters far less if the operations are counterterrorism.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Changing Conflict in Pakistan, and Targeted Killing 2010

The problem with viewing civilian development as a part of counterinsurgency is that the insurgents will blow up the development.

Matthew Yglesias » Does Anybody Know How to Do Development? 2010

What accounts for this pattern of outcomes in counterinsurgency (COIN) wars?

Chainsaw Safety | ATTACKERMAN 2009

The coordination of more than a score of such battalions, not to mention 45 Army Special Forces A-teams, Marine special-ops units, and so on, all involved in some aspect of counterinsurgency, is less the job of McChrystal than that of Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, like McChrystal and Kolenda a West Point graduate, who heads the ISAF Joint Command.

Man Versus Afghanistan 2010

CAP: Recommended broad cuts to the program (reduce budget by 1/3 over the next four years) because of development issues and questions as to the value of the program in counterinsurgency operations.

Wonk Room » Gates: ‘This Is A Reform Budget’ 2009

Considering that success in counterinsurgency requires addressing the concerns of a population for justice and prosperity — not just security — these are critical shortages.

You Make Me Whole | ATTACKERMAN 2009

Pérez Molina was serving as a military commander in El Quiché, one of Guatemala's most heavily indigenous and war-wracked departments, when Ríos Montt launched what was dubbed Victoria Victory 82, a military offensive that the historian Virginia Garrard-Burnett has written led to "the period of most extreme violence committed in the name of counterinsurgency" during the war, and which was particularly furious in El Quiché's northern region.

Michael Deibert: Ballots and Bullets in Guatemala Michael Deibert 2011

Pérez Molina was serving as a military commander in El Quiché, one of Guatemala's most heavily indigenous and war-wracked departments, when Ríos Montt launched what was dubbed Victoria Victory 82, a military offensive that the historian Virginia Garrard-Burnett has written led to "the period of most extreme violence committed in the name of counterinsurgency" during the war, and which was particularly furious in El Quiché's northern region.

Michael Deibert: Ballots and Bullets in Guatemala Michael Deibert 2011

Pérez Molina was serving as a military commander in El Quiché, one of Guatemala's most heavily indigenous and war-wracked departments, when Ríos Montt launched what was dubbed Victoria Victory 82, a military offensive that the historian Virginia Garrard-Burnett has written led to "the period of most extreme violence committed in the name of counterinsurgency" during the war, and which was particularly furious in El Quiché's northern region.

Michael Deibert: Ballots and Bullets in Guatemala Michael Deibert 2011

The coordination of more than a score of such battalions, not to mention 45 Army Special Forces A-teams, Marine special-ops units, and so on, all involved in some aspect of counterinsurgency, is less the job of McChrystal than that of Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, like McChrystal and Kolenda a West Point graduate, who heads the ISAF Joint Command.

Man Versus Afghanistan 2010