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

— John Abizaid

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

— H. R. McMaster

“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

Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire,…

— Richard Engel

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

— Rahm Emanuel

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

Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.

— Chelsea Manning

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

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

— Meles Zenawi

“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

“Constructive insurgency: Is the use of legal and imaginative means of resistance to reform a system of repression. Generally through the use of a…

— Anonymous