to a strategy of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. The central premise of counterinsurgency is to win hearts and minds and weaken popular support for the insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Senator Kerry said the time had come for a change in U.S.strategy toward Pakistan, with the aim of appealing to the hearts and minds of the Pakistani people.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

It appears that most of the soldiers targeted had been working in road construction, part of the army's strategy for winning hearts and minds locally.

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It is too early to know how Obama will react when he like Bush is no longer able to deny that his strategy for winning over the hearts and minds of the Islamic world has failed.

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But culture is indisputably a critical enabling component of strategy, especially a guerrilla strategy that critically depends on winning hearts and minds over better than incumbents.

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