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prescriptive.
Broadly stated, modern COIN doctrine stresses the need to protect civilian
populations, eliminate insurgent leaders and infrastructure, and help
establish a legitimate and accountable host-nation government able ... Manual 3-24 also makes clear the
extensive length and expense of COIN campaigns: "Insurgencies are
protracted by nature. Thus, COIN operations always demand considerable
expenditures of time and resources ... employing the method of "clear, hold, and build" -- in other
words, push the insurgents out, keep them out, and use the resulting space
and time to establish a legitimate government
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establish their writ over the territory that
also provides sanctuaries to Afghan insurgents. "If they [NATO forces]
are leaving and giving a notion of success to the Taliban of Afghanistan ... both sides of
the Afghanistan-Pakistan border who have taken the lead in the
insurgency - around 27 million Pashtuns live in Pakistan and 14 million in
Afghanistan. A distinctive Taliban ... known as Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Pakistan, or TTP, has evolved into a formidable insurgent force,
presenting a serious threat to Pakistan's own national security.
Both the Afghan
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have developed a viable army that can defend their borders and police any
internal insurgency. Such an army would reestablish a regional balance of
power and that is a necessary ... less than adequate job. This is
a widely held view and because the insurgents are as strong as our weakest
link, there is general unhappiness with the British military) Anyhow ... Basra, the Iraqi Army, for the first time took the lead in
engaging the insurgents. The Iraqi army, initially faltered, adjusted both their
tactics and the composition of their forces
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have developed a viable army that can defend their borders and police any
internal insurgency. Such an army would reestablish a regional balance of power
and that is a necessary ... less than adequate job. This is a widely held view
and because the insurgents are as strong as our weakest link, there is general
unhappiness with the British military) Anyhow ... Basra, the Iraqi
Army, for the first time took the lead in engaging the insurgents. The Iraqi army,
initially faltered, adjusted both their tactics and the composition of their forces
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country is already past the breaking point under the lightning
campaign by Sunni insurgents. Reinforced by hardened fighters from Syria and
sympathetic communities in northern and western Iraq, the insurgents ... illusory victory. It can
only end in defeat — and the strengthening of the insurgents' sworn Shiite enemies
in Baghdad and, especially, Tehran.
First, consider the brute demographic reality. Unlike ... reduced to as little as 12 percent of the city's
population.
If the insurgents of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, enter Baghdad's
residual Sunni
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have developed a viable army that can defend their borders and police any
internal insurgency. Such an army would reestablish a regional balance of
power and that is a necessary ... less than adequate job. This is
a widely held view and because the insurgents are as strong as our weakest
link, there is general unhappiness with the British military) Anyhow ... Basra, the Iraqi Army, for the first time took the lead in
engaging the insurgents. The Iraqi army, initially faltered, adjusted both their
tactics and the composition of their forces
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caught in a dilemma about aiding a
government that was fuelling the insurgency that threatened to
topple it. His generation, too, had its best and brightest. On Iraq,
as with ... organizes Shia-dominated military forces and informal
militias to combat the Sunni insurgents that have gained control
of northwestern Iraq. On the other hand, Tehran will attempt to
frame ... supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. When the city of Mosul fell to
the Sunni insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham
(ISIS), Tehran's immediate instinct
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drone's mission: to spy on Tehran's
nuclear program, as well as any insurgent activities the Iranians might be
supporting in Afghanistan. With an estimated price ... which he navigated a
drone to target a technical college being occupied by insurgents in Iraq,
Martin felt "electrified" and "adrenalized," exulting that "we had shot the
technical college full ... base. A "target package" — information hastily assembled by U.S. soldiers —
identifies the men as insurgents, and provides details on the location of the
strike and the proximity to civilian areas
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massive stockpile of chemical weapons (CW)
against the opposition, or that antiregime insurgents, al-Qaeda, Hizballah,
or other states might divert some of these arms for their own use. Just ... Other scenarios presuppose the breakdown of security at CW storage
facilities. For example, Syrian insurgents could use captured CW
munitions against regime forces (just as some Iraqi insurgents used derelict ... sort would be
useless unless both components were acquired. Due to these complexities,
local insurgent groups might not consider CW worth the effort to obtain.
In the event of security
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country. The names ISIS, ISISL or the Islamic State, are the
ultraviolent insurgents who crossed over the border two months ago from Syria into Iraq to establish a
caliphate across ... Zarqawi was beginning to see himself as something more than an "emir" or
insurgent commander: He aspired to spiritual leadership as well. (His successor as "emir," Baghdadi,
would make ... military, led by General David Petraeus, capitalized on this to finance and support an insurgency-
within-an-insurgency, known as the "Awakening." Tribesmen willing to fight AQI, even if they
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zone that would render his air and armor
effectively unusable. The Libyan insurgents began to receive
weapons and training from the outside, special forces from France,
Britain, Jordan, and Qatar ... imposed, and stream of states began to recognize the National
Transitional Council (NTC)—the insurgents' Benghazi-based proto-
government. The question soon became when, not whether, Qaddafi
would fall. Though ... hometown) and Bani
Walid, and even with NATO's air support and the insurgents'
superiority in weaponry and numbers, wresting control of these
places has proved arduous because
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1990s, Afghanistan's
north has been the heart of resistance to the insurgents - predominantly ethnic Pashtun and
from the south - and a bulwark against a complete takeover ... insurgents have carried
out their sweeping military offensive this summer, they have pushed deep into northern
Afghanistan."
The AP (8/9, Faiez) reports that on Monday, the Taliban "took control ... Karrenbauer
"rejected on Monday calls for its soldiers to return to Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents took
Kunduz city where German troops were deployed for a decade." According to Reuters, Germany
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zone that would render his air and armor
effectively unusable. The Libyan insurgents began to receive
weapons and training from the outside, special forces from France,
Britain, Jordan, and Qatar ... imposed, and stream of states began to recognize the National
Transitional Council (NTC)—the insurgents' Benghazi-based proto-
government. The question soon became when, not whether, Qaddafi
would fall. Though ... hometown) and Bani
Walid, and even with NATO's air support and the insurgents'
superiority in weaponry and numbers, wresting control of these
places has proved arduous because
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seizure of Libyan chemical weapons, or the
Qaddafi regime's use of them against insurgents. Those fears
turned out to be unfounded.
But the Libyan chemical stockpile consisted of several ... uncertain whether the Syrian regime would consider
using WMD against its domestic opponents, Syrian insurgents,
unlike many of their Libyan counterparts, are increasingly
sectarian and radicalized; indeed, many observers fear ... civil-war, the security of its
WMD should be of profound concern, as sectarian insurgents
and Islamist terrorist groups may stand poised to seize chemical
and perhaps even biological weapons
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capital are said to have been put on high alert amid fears that insurgents will target the 'Green Zone'
where most of the foreign embassies are based. As Mosul ... from power, using the army, police forces and militias to terrorize their opponents. The insurgency the
Maliki government faces today was utterly predictable because, in fact, it happened before. From ... EFTA01190447
2003 onward, Iraq faced a Sunni insurgency - that was finally tamped down by Gen. David Petraeus,
who said explicitly at the time that the core element of his strategy
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catch-all term for a wide array of
localized military structures — or other insurgent groups, many of them
openly sectarian. The absence of a coherent political leadership over the
rebel ... unlikely to be drawn into that orbit — more akin to the
mainstream Sunni insurgency in neighboring Iraq, with which the Sunni
tribes of southeastern Syria are well integrated. Today ... increasingly sectarian, hue. Even if foreign fighters fail to gain traction,
the mainstream Sunni insurgency will likely have a strong Islamist
component, which history suggests will grow rather than
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Federal Government finds itself bogged down in an intractable war
against an Islamist insurgency that is escalating by the day, leaving the lives of hundreds of thousand, if
not millions ... Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in the south, and an (slamist insurgency
in the north all of which are fighting in different ways to wrest control of tersitory away ... corrupting influences of
Western culture, Boko Haram has since transformed into an armed insurgency determined to transform
Nigeria into an Islamic state.
Though the group had been carrying out violent
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