David Rodriguez, one of the Army's top experts on counterinsurgency, will run day-to-day operations.
When the Bush administration decided to implement a new counterinsurgency strategy there, Mr. Gates ousted Gen.
The same people who advised them to get involved in the literal counterinsurgency wars.
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Both have previous experience in Afghanistan and more history with counterinsurgency operations than McKiernan.
Petraeus crafted the Army counterinsurgency strategy and led the surge of U.S. forces into Iraq in 2007.
Consideration also should be given to leasing C-12 twin-engine aircraft outfitted for maritime patrol and counterinsurgency surveillance.
Until now our operations there have routinely violated the most basic precept of Counterinsurgency 101: Secure the population.
Aziz says that in the short term, Pakistan needs a counterinsurgency policy necessary to take on the Taliban.
Throughout his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama excoriated Mr. Bush's counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq, insisting it could not succeed.
David Petraeus, Mr. Bush found his Ulysses Grant, to execute an operational approach based on sound counterinsurgency doctrine.
Even in his own counterinsurgency manual he indicates a host nation has to win it on its own.
In other words, the faster you get small, the more counterterrorism you get, the less counterinsurgency you get.
Cheerleaders for counterinsurgency theory are only able to build a case by confusing tactical victories with strategic victories.
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Counterinsurgency wars over the past century of modern warfare have been extensively inventoried, studied, analyzed, evaluated, and judged.
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That strategy has gone from "straightforward counterterrorism to more complex counterinsurgency, " Brown said.
Successful counterinsurgency solutions are generally 80 percent political and only 20 percent military.
"Steadfast" in this context means sticking with, and enhancing, a serious counterinsurgency strategy.
He is applying in Afghanistan the counterinsurgency strategy Mr. Bush used in Iraq.
It's not yet clear whether the new emphasis on counterinsurgency can reverse the effects of years of that approach.
Dorner, who retired from the Navy Reserve on February 1, was trained in counterinsurgency and intelligence, the source said.
We have employed counterinsurgency practices and an underscored the importance of units living among the people they are securing.
Civil support in South Carolina makes counterinsurgency in Kabul look like a picnic.
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Stanley McChrystal, has asked for thousands more troops to continue his counterinsurgency strategy.
Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, who reportedly called for 40, 000 more troops to carry out a counterinsurgency strategy.
This looks like it will be used primarily by allied Afghanistan Air Force pilots for counterinsurgency operations in the country.
"A properly resourced counterinsurgency probably means more forces, " Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a September 15 hearing.
His work at this facility is part of the counterinsurgency strategy employed by the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen.
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But there's a growing number of people within the military who argue we never have actually properly fought a counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq.
What that has done is separate, as you would want to in a classic counterinsurgency, separate the insurgents from the people.
"If this is a counterinsurgency effort, maybe we shouldn't be sending more brigades, maybe we should be withdrawing brigades, " says Fick.
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