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Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency [1]) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". [2] The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries" [3] and can be considered war by a state against a non-state adversary. [4]
Clear and hold is a counter-insurgency strategy in which military personnel clear an area of guerrillas or other insurgents, and then keep the area clear of insurgents while winning the support of the populace for the government and its policies.
FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency is a US Army manual, created by General David H. Petraeus and James F. Amos. The foreword is by Sarah Sewall . The document has been credited with changing for the better the US approach to insurgency in Iraq. [ 1 ]
Civilian populace – "Gain, preserve, and strengthen civilian support for the HN government and its counterinsurgency programs." Too strong a military emphasis, regarding actions of either side, can be frightening. Military forces – Strengthen military support, with emphasis on building and maintaining the morale of the HN forces.
The Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance (LAAR) or Light Air Support (LAS) program was a United States Air Force program for a new light counter-insurgency, ground attack and reconnaissance aircraft. [1] The aircraft should be capable of finding, tracking, and attacking targets either on its own or in support of ground forces.
A Washington state congressional candidate takes lessons from Iraq.
Thompson was a veteran of the Malayan counter-insurgency effort and a counter-insurgency advisor to the Diem government. [1] Thompson shared his revised system of resettlement and population security, a system he had proposed to Diem that would eventually become the Strategic Hamlet Program.
The Kennedy administration's Special Group (Counter-Insurgency) quickly tasked USAID "to coordinate economic assistance programs with military civic action programs." More bluntly: The agency ...