In 2006 they wrote a counter-insurgency manual that drew partly on Britain's colonial wars.
It has rewritten its counter-insurgency manual, replaced its Cold War doctrine, and updated its training.
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Ethiopia, for its part has fought a brutal counter-insurgency to restore its control over the region.
In any event, the American army and marines have produced a new counter-insurgency manual.
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Some Latin Americans fear an escalation, in which American troops could become involved in counter-insurgency or drug-bashing.
It might also help if America's counter-insurgency force was at least more accountable to its NATO allies.
In the process, they have improved, with the Italians, for example, commended for counter-insurgency work in Iraq.
Now he believes it is on the right track with the more expensive, more intensive, counter-insurgency strategy.
Some 10, 000 British soldiers are based in Afghanistan, many fighting a counter-insurgency campaign in the southern Helmand province.
Moreover, properly trained state-level officers, who know the local language and conditions, have a much better counter-insurgency record.
In the absence of an updated counter-insurgency doctrine of their own, British officers have been using General Petraeus's manual.
Most of them aim to improve America's irregular war-fighting, including counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency.
Their ranks swelled with infusions from a notorious Guatemalan counter-insurgency unit, the Kaibiles.
America is clearly anxious to get other forces on the ground, thus freeing its own troops for counter-insurgency sweeps.
They have also ended an American military counter-insurgency training mission in the country.
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Petraeus, 60, also pioneered the military technique of counter-insurgency, which puts more emphasis on protecting civilians than on killing enemies.
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Petraeus said his team needs funds to be able to focus on training and equipping forces to conduct counter-insurgency operations.
The turboprop is used in counter-insurgency fights and as a light attack vehicle and reconnaissance aircraft that is built for various speeds.
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As Petraeus knows, one of the first principles of counter-insurgency doctrine is that any successful campaign must have a credible local partner.
By the mid-nineteen-eighties, Petraeus had become one of a small circle of post-Vietnam military officers who had developed an interest in counter-insurgency doctrine.
Whereas the American army and marines drew up a new manual on counter-insurgency in 2006, the British have yet to revise their doctrine.
Such ideas have been American orthodoxy on counter-insurgency for nearly three years, adopted successfully in Iraq and less successfully by previous commanders in Afghanistan.
At that time, it should assume full responsibility for peacekeeping and counter-insurgency, with a separate American-led force, currently of 20, 000 troops, merging into it.
His controversial reproach had the support of influential Americans who wanted their army to learn the art of counter-insurgency that it had abandoned after Vietnam.
He was then sent to Algeria where he led the "irregular" counter-insurgency campaign against the National Liberation Front (FLN) during the 1957 Battle of Algiers.
The other is counter-insurgency (COIN), championed first in Afghanistan by the sacked General Stanley McChrystal and now by General David Petraeus, the new commander there.
He has also said that Britain cannot specialise in counter-insurgency warfare alone, but must be ready to fight state-on-state wars that necessarily require high-end equipment.
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His revised strategy was based on counter-insurgency methods developed in Iraq.
Yet the fact that Britain has recently been involved in two troop-heavy counter-insurgency campaigns does not mean that all or even most future conflicts will be similar.
Today the US is planning to train Pakistani counter-insurgency forces.
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