Tag: Counterinsurgency

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See also Counterterrorism

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2009-01-23 In Colombia, an entire battalion was dismantled over killings of civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties.
The 15th mobile brigade was completely replaced by a new unit, the 23rd mobile counterinsurgency brigade, whose 1,400 members have reportedly received training on human rights, according to official reports.
2008-10-26 U.S. forces ferried by 4 helicopter crossed five miles into Syria from Iraq and launched a commando raid that left at least eight people dead.
2006-12-18 “If bin Laden didn’t have access to global media, satellite communications, and the Internet, he’d just be a cranky guy in a cave.”
-- David Kilcullen, leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism
2006-12-18 “The globalized information environment makes counterinsurgency even more difficult now.”
-- David Kilcullen, leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism
2006-12-18 “People don’t get pushed into rebellion by their ideology. They get pulled in by their social networks.
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Although radical ideas prepare the way for disaffected young men to become violent jihadists, the reasons they convert are more mundane and familiar: family, friends, associates.
-- David Kilcullen, leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, paraphrasing the American political scientist Roger D. Petersen
2006-12-18 “I saw extremely similar behavior and extremely similar problems in an Islamic insurgency in West Java and a Christian-separatist insurgency in East Timor. After 9/11, when a lot of people were saying, ‘The problem is Islam,’ I was thinking, It’s something deeper than that. It’s about human social networks and the way that they operate.
[ … I]t’s not about theology. There are elements in human psychological and social makeup that drive what’s happening. The Islamic bit is secondary. This is human behavior in an Islamic setting. This is not ‘Islamic behavior.”
-- David Kilcullen, leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism
2006-12-15 in the United States, the Army and the Marine Corps will release an ambitious new counterinsurgency field manual—the first in more than two decades
2006-12-15 “Effective insurgents rapidly adapt to changing circumstances. They cleverly use the tools of the global information revolution to magnify the effects of their actions. . . . However, by focusing on efforts to secure the safety and support of the local populace, and through a concerted effort to truly function as learning organizations, the Army and Marine Corps can defeat their insurgent enemies.”
-- United States, counterinsurgency field manual
2006 "We are codifying the best practices of previous counterinsurgency campaigns and the lessons we have learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help our forces succeed in the current fight and prepare for the future."
-- Lt. Col. John A. Nagl, a key figure in overseeing the production and recent release of a 279-page joint Army/Marine Counterinsurgency Field Manual
2006 "If we've created a manual that is just good for Iraq and Afghanistan, we've failed… This thing has got to be focused on the future and the next time we do this."
-- Col. Conrad Crane, director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute and a key figure in overseeing the production and recent release of a 279-page joint Army/Marine Counterinsurgency Field Manual

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