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  2. Applying a Counterinsurgency Strategy to the Drug Problem - AOL

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    In Afghanistan, he was a contractor, working on a wide range of issues that included counterinsurgency and counternarcotics work. Going from the apparent success of the surge to the apparently ...

  3. Counterinsurgency - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Clear and hold - Wikipedia

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    The strategy was also implemented by General Creighton Abrams, as part of the "pacification" effort conducted by the Republic of Vietnam and the US Army during the Vietnam War, at which time the strategy became widely known. [7] Clear and hold has also been used as a counter-insurgency tactic in Algeria, Greece, the Philippines, and South Korea ...

  5. McCormick Magic Diamond - Wikipedia

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    In this way the counterinsurgency model can demonstrate how both the insurgent and COIN forces succeed or fail. The model's strategies and principle apply to both forces, therefore the degree the forces follow the model should have a direct correlation to the success or failure of either the Insurgent or COIN force. McCormick insurgency model

  6. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    Separation of insurgents – A counterinsurgency strategy should first seek to separate the enemy from the population, then deny the enemy reentry, and finally execute long enough to deny the insurgent access; Shape, Clear, Hold, Build – The counterinsurgency theory that states the process of winning an insurgency is shape, clear, hold, build

  7. Insurgency - Wikipedia

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    The model's strategies and principle apply to both forces, therefore the degree the forces follow the model should have a direct correlation to the success or failure of either the Insurgent or COIN force. McCormick insurgency model. The model depicts four key elements or players: Insurgent force; Counterinsurgency force (i.e., the government ...

  8. David Kilcullen - Wikipedia

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    David John Kilcullen FRGS (born 1967) is an Australian author, strategist, and counterinsurgency expert and current president of the Cordillera Applications Group. . Previously he served as non-executive chairman of Caerus Associates, a strategy and design consulting firm that he

  9. What would it take to win a counterinsurgency war in Gaza? - AOL

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    Another American veteran, Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton, says counterinsurgencies require a political strategy for peace. "We went into Iraq and Afghanistan without a plan for the day after ...