I think the answer is that we're giving up on counter-insurgency.

A new Counter-insurgency strategy seemed to offer a way around these problems.

Two weeks of counter-insurgency training followed, starting in early September 1972.

For the first time a "special counter-insurgency training program" was included in the exercise.

Many countries receive military aid to help with counter-insurgency efforts.

Rubin has written that even the best counter-insurgency cannot win the war.

Our forces are making progress with their counter-insurgency and training missions.

Certain principles of counter-insurgency warfare are well known since the 1950s and 1960s.

The Iraqi army is described as the most important element of the counter-insurgency fight.

This prompted the announcement of a counter-insurgency campaign in the city.

But the military's new counter-insurgency doctrine turned this logic on its head.

Since then, it has often been quoted or analyzed in works on counter-insurgency.

He was, further, regarded as the architect of the government's counter-insurgency program.

The soldier is then trained for two more weeks in counter-insurgency operations.

The term is particularly applied currently (2010) to counter-insurgency operations.

Counter-insurgency efforts may be successful, especially when the insurgents are unpopular.

The Janjaweed were put at the center of the new counter-insurgency strategy.

This counter-insurgency operation would continue right up to 1980.

There were signs over the last few days that a huge counter-insurgency sweep was being planned.

He had but a single counter-insurgency tactic, which the people called the "crackdown".

Economic problems coupled with counter-insurgency required continuous involvement in the international market.

It has also been used for purposes of counter-insurgency and ethnic cleansing.

In Central America, training and intelligence were provided to support counter-insurgency efforts.

An army counter-insurgency campaign and extremist death squads have taken some 75,000 lives.

His functions were now split between several officers who specialised in counter-insurgency.

Until now, the counterinsurgency campaign has been run largely by the American military.

It looked like a scene out of a counterinsurgency training video.

Counterinsurgency is work better suited to a police force than a military one.

The decision reflected recent American counterinsurgency strategy in the war.

Especially in counterinsurgency operations, training local forces, stuff like that.

He has written several books on counterinsurgency and other topics.

Yet, three years later, his counterinsurgency policy is also now viewed as a failure.

Any counterinsurgency campaign, we're told, requires a very long commitment.

Counterinsurgency operations in a foreign land are always very difficult, and often fail.

This will be the third, and largest, counterinsurgency drive against the rebels.

However, he doesn't see the Army's counterinsurgency doing much to bring real security and peace.

And it has also begun a political counterinsurgency program in a number of important towns.

The operation was considered one of the first successful counterinsurgency operations in Iraq.

It is a useful model to consider for other counterinsurgency operations.

But the most important was that we refused to use an effective counterinsurgency strategy.

But it is unclear if the force in the south will be intended for counterinsurgency.

"The only people who can contain it are these special counterinsurgency units of the police," he said.

At the same time, its larger profile soon made it the focus of the state's counterinsurgency efforts.

Fortunately, there are leaders in the military who understand counterinsurgency warfare.

Its 1,100-member force was organized into 7 companies and trained in counterinsurgency techniques.

He is acknowledged as a specialist on terrorism and counterinsurgency.

"You cannot have a democratic state with someone who has relied on fear, force and the tactics of counterinsurgency."

As a general rule, counterinsurgency operations call for patience and restraint.

It's the classic counterinsurgency model: winning without firing a shot.

He said the killings were in retaliation for the counterinsurgency operations by security forces.