War Quote by David Kilcullen

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

— H. R. McMaster

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

— Jake Auchincloss

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

— Rahm Emanuel

“How to measure progress has never been satisfactorily answered. In counterinsurgency almost no simple metrics used in a vacuum, such as the number of…

— Douglas Grindle

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

“My personal position on counterinsurgency in general, and on Iraq and Afghanistan in particular, could therefore be summarized as "Never again, but..." That is,…

— David Kilcullen

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

“It is up to all of us to fight our unrelenting enemies—complacency, overconfidence and conceit.”

— Alan C. Greenberg

These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political…

— Ulrike Meinhof

“Your enemy is presenting you with new options and challenges every day. If you respond in a wholly expected way each time, you will…

— Stanley Bing

To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy

— Miyamoto Musashi