counterinsurgency

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Counterinsurgency involves “comprehensive civilian and military efforts designed to simultaneously defeat and contain insurgency and address its root causes.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

Petraeus and the others had drawn much of their thinking from a 1964 book called Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, by a retired French colonial officer named David Galula.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2021

Military strategists at least realize what police are now discovering: Counterinsurgency is notoriously difficult.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

Gen. David Petraeus: Petraeus had almost redefined the notion of warfare, authoring the new Counterinsurgency Field Manual and implementing it in Iraq.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2010

He is both a theorist and practitioner of counterinsurgency strategy, having helped craft it in Iraq and been an author of the Counterinsurgency Field Manual.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2010