There will be an airborne assault and amphibious landings as well as training in counter-insurgency, counter-piracy and interstate war.

BBC: UK deploying 5,250 personnel for Exercise Joint Warrior

It has rewritten its counter-insurgency manual, replaced its Cold War doctrine, and updated its training.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Army and its Future Combat Systems in Jeopardy

The members included more than a dozen military officers, Iraq specialists from the State Department, and outside academics who could think conceptually about the war and the application of counter-insurgency doctrine.

NEWYORKER: The General��s Dilemma

Most of them aim to improve America's irregular war-fighting, including counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency.

ECONOMIST: The Quadrennial Defence Review

The Humvee served the military well from its inception in the early 1980s until the Iraq war, but once the military became embroiled in counter-insurgency warfare after 9-11, its deficiencies were hard to ignore.

FORBES: Army Mistakes Endanger Future Jeep

There were to be many more SAS operations in the war against Hitler and later, the SAS saw action in several counter-insurgency operations, in Oman, Aden, Malaya and Borneo.

BBC: Profile: The SAS