You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very…

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have…

— Rahm Emanuel

“By the end of 2004, U.S. operations in Iraq had been rough enough to antagonize the Sunni population without imposing the draconian methods armies…

— Bing West

Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

— Rahm Emanuel

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy.…

— Noah Feldman

Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the…

— Jonathan Chait

Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army / Marine…

— David L. Ulin

Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

— H. R. McMaster

One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the…

— Mark Danner

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that…

— Michael Mullen

Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic positionThe operation in…

— Jonathan Chait

“McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical successes did not translate into a strategic victory. This was why counterinsurgency…

— Bob Woodward

... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S.…

— Robert Parry

“Thus counterinsurgency is at heart an adaptation battle: a struggle to rapidly develop and learn new techniques and apply them in a fast-moving, high-threat…

— David Kilcullen