Failure Quote by Meles Zenawi

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

“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

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

— John Abizaid

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

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

— H. R. McMaster

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

— Rahm Emanuel

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

— Hamid Karzai

The insurgency began and you missed it.

— REM

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 think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

— Walter Cronkite

Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the…

— Russ Feingold

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

— Stuart Bowen