Bad Quote by Chelsea Manning

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right,…

— James G. Stavridis

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

— Hamid Karzai

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

— John Abizaid

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

— George S. Patton

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

— John McCain

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

— Meles Zenawi

Counterinsurgencies are a political initiative with a military component. They require the regime in power to counter the insurgents with better governance.

— Jake Auchincloss

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

— Orson Scott Card

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

— John Burroughs

“Primitive (and guerrilla) warfare consists of war stripped to its essentials: the murder of enemies; the theft or destruction of their sustenance, wealth, and…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

— George S. Patton