Quotes About Counterinsurgency

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

John Abizaid

#2. In practice, American modernizers tended to be distrustful of populist politics and inclined to favor elite-led societies; often they turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and social control.

Fredrik Logevall

#3. If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

Anand Gopal

#4. first, that in a counterinsurgency campaign, the top priority is not to kill the enemy but to protect the population from enemy intimidation. This was a dramatic change from U.S. policy

John A. Nagl

#5. The overriding goal of counterinsurgency is to make friends: You make friends with the people; you isolate the insurgents.

Dexter Filkins

#6. I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have a Sons of Iraq here. We don't have the same divisions here that we had between Sunni and Shia.

Rahm Emanuel

#7. One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them.

Mark Danner

#8. McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical successes did not translate into a strategic victory. This was why counterinsurgency - blanketing the population in safety and winning them over - was necessary.

Bob Woodward

#9. Counterinsurgency - a standard term for terrorism that we direct.

Noam Chomsky

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

Rahm Emanuel

#11. Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.

David Petraeus

#12. I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

Michael Mullen

#13. Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.

Richard H. Shultz Jr.

#14. Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

Harvey Penick

#15. Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

Chris Hardwick

#16. Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.

Satoshi Kon

#17. If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

David Henry

#18. Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#19. Naomi looked around the room, then down at the cup. Then back around the room. Then again at the cup. No. Way. "Hello?" "Hello! Is this how you greet all new acquaintances? Trap them, maim them, and then chit chat?

S.A. Hunter