Is Counterinsurgency the Right Path in Afghanistan?

"Is Counterinsurgency the Right Path in Afghanistan? Posted October 27, 2009 The strategy seeks to turn local populations against insurgents by providing protection and building trust. But it takes time, troops, and cash. Can it be more effective in the long run than...

NATO Ministers Endorse Wider Afghan Effort

"BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Defense ministers from NATO on Friday endorsed the ambitious counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan proposed by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, giving new impetus to his recommendation to...

Prabhakaran won't survive more than a year if he flees Sri Lanka

Prof. Rohan  Gunaratna, heads the International Centre for Political Violence and Trrorism Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore is the worlds’ “go-to man” with regard...

Who’s Country Is It Anyway, Ours Or U.S. Think Tanks’?

" Beware: Pakistanis trained and groomed by U.S. think tanks are being inserted into Pakistan’s corridors of power, planted to teach us, the uncouth Pakistanis, what our national interest is and how to achieve it. While we have no problem with U.S. per se, we do have a big...

Counterinsurgency Police Officers Arrested in Mumbai Investigation

"By AIJAZ HUSSAIN, Associated Press SRINAGAR, India – One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials...

Iraqi Chicken Farmers Get Jumpstart With Egg Delivery

" BAGHDAD, April 28, 2008 – Chicken farmers in Mahmudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, received the jumpstart their industry needed with the arrival of 45,000 eggs, each ready for hatching. Army Capt. Benjamin Neusse, a civil military operations officer with 3rd...

Shifting Sands: Iraq Troops Question Surge

       NowPublic contributor phrolen is a veteran of Operation IraqiFreedom and Joint Taskforce Katrina. His commentary is based on actualexperience.   ...

Political Battles Cloud Security Concerns

    With public disapproval ratings of both congress and the president at record levels conventional wisdom would suggest that elected officials are extending their efforts to accomplish their jobs...

On Kilcullen's 28 Articles

David Kilcullen is a counterinsurgency theorist who is currently a senior adviser to Gen David Petraeus.  At the blog of Small Wars Journal, a series of posts (here, here, here and here) in which officers and other participants  "from the field" comment on Col...

Iraq army recruitment to hit mark

"The general in charge of training the much-needed Iraq army and police said yesterday that the final target of 325,000 personnel will be met before the end of this month, with "dramatic improvement" in...

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Army, Marines write new field manual (AP)

" WASHINGTON - Drawing on its successes and failures in Iraq " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Iraq , the military is completing a new counterinsurgency strategy that emphasizes working with and protecting civilians, defense officials said Thursday. The Army...

Military Hones a New Strategy on Insurgency

The United States Army and Marines are finishing work on a new counterinsurgency doctrine that draws on the hard-learned lessons from Iraq and makes the welfare and protection of civilians a bedrock element of...

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