Counterinsurgency Quote by John Abizaid

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

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

“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

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

— Rahm Emanuel

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

“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

We certainly have the best special operations forces in the world and know how to do counterterrorism extremely well.

— Mark Esper

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

As I have said, I am not a war monger, nor am I a politician and I do not know anything about handling clever…

— Simi Garewal