Defeat Quote by John McCain

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

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

— Rand Beers

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

— Meles Zenawi

Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and…

— Ashraf Dehghani

“Military operations alone cannot defeat an insurgency because only economic development and political action can address most sources of disaffection. If military operations are…

— H.R. McMaster

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

— James G. Stavridis

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

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

— John Abizaid

The insurgency began and you missed it.

— REM

Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use…

— Che Guevara

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

— Curtis LeMay

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

— Curtis LeMay