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Counter insurgency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Counter-insurgency is the combating of insurgency, by the government (or allies) of the territory in which the insurgency takes place. [3] Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century by Steven Metz and Raymond Millen Counter-insurgency operations include many different facades military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions taken to defeat insurgency. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Counter-insurgency   (1033 words)

Insurgency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Counter insurgency -- the combating of insurgency, by the government (or allies) of the territory in which the insurgency takes place. Persons engaging in insurgency are called insurgents, and may engage in regular or guerrilla combat against the armed forces of the established regime, or conduct sabotage and harassment in the land. An insurgency is an armed revolt or insurrection against an established civil or political authority, such as a constituted government or an occupation by an invading force. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Insurgents   (688 words)

british.counterinsurgency Certainly in terms of intelligence gathering and 'counter insurgency' strategy the lesson learned was that the alienation of a community from the state means that little intelligence will flow from that community. Like all phases of 'counter insurgency' strategy already used it will be evolved and refined in the days ahead and it is important to remember this when dealing with counter insurgency/revolutionary strategy. He was undoubtedly brought to the North in 1970 with the dual brief; to attempt to structure a 'counter insurgency' response and to gain experience of what was a relatively new 'counter-insurgency' situation. www.etext.org /Politics/INAC/british.counterinsurgency   (4889 words)

Selected Writings by Sivaram - Taraki One of the basic principles of counter insurgency is to have many para-military and vigilante groups drawn from the target population for intelligence gathering, psy-ops and most importantly for creating an alternative political space and for helping the state to reduce its military presence and hence expenditure. Western counter insurgency methods have succeeded in putting down or effectively containing the armed struggles for social emancipation or for carving out separate states in the majority of the countries which adopted them under the tutelage of the Americans and the British. The killing of Razeek by an LTTE suicide bomber in Batticaloa town was a big blow to the army's counter insurgency ops in the east. www.tamilnation.org /forum/sivaram/001207.htm   (1238 words)

Maoist Insurgency in Nepal By the end of December of 2000, the insurgency has taken the life of an estimated 1600 persons (unofficially the figure goes as high as 4,000 dead.) There are four categories of people killed in the process: Maoist guerrillas, police, alleged informers of police, and innocent civilians. That the Maoist insurgency has survived five-year period and continues to enter into news phases is in itself a clear indication that the movement is no longer a temporary phenomenon without social bases. Geopolitics of Insurgency and Government Policy: The insurgency that began from 3 mid-western mountain districts of Rolpa, Rukum, and Jajarkot, western district of Gorkha and an eastern district of Sindhuli has now spread to 68 of Nepal’s 75 districts. www.saag.org /papers2/paper187.htm   (2377 words)

Guerrilla Warefare and Counter-Insurgency In neither Vietnam nor Afghanistan was the operational intelligence of the counter-insurgency forces equal to that of the guerrillas. So, one counter for not having precise knowledge of the location of guerrillas was to use large, mobile formations to move in and occupy a region, in an attempt to identify, engage and destroy guerrilla formations. The normal counter to this was to use imprecise intelligence and compensate for it with large-scale operations. www.apfn.net /messageboard/8-18-03/discussion.cgi.81.html   (1844 words)

The Counter-insurgency Bugaboo The military establishment is covering its unwillingness to fully prosecute the war to victory by claiming we are ill-prepared to fight an “insurgency.” As in Vietnam, we may be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, refusing to use our advantages to win, while public support is eroded with a focus on American casualties. The very term “insurgency” conjures up visions of a jungle war in Southeast Asia against an elusive and noble peasant fighter moving amongst the people, gaining popular support for his cause of expelling the unjust foreigners. But to listen to the generals on the media circuit and in think tank seminars talking about the Iraqi “insurgency,” it seems we are suffering from a huge national-level flashback. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1627267/posts   (1986 words)

Revolutionary Warfare & Counter-Insurgency - Overview He led the Counter Insurgency instructional team at the British Army Staff College and has studied the relationship between Peacekeeping and Counter Revolutionary Warfare theory. He has had command experience in the counter insurgency environment as a platoon, company and battalion commander. The premise of the programme is that there are lessons to be derived from the recent history of revolutionary, guerilla and terrorist campaigns against democracies and that this history is, as yet, insufficiently exposed to political decision-makers. www.cdiss.org /pages/Programmes/Revolutionary_Warfare_Counter_Insurgency/Overview.asp   (427 words)

rediff.com: Varsha Bhosle on the Counter Insurgency And Jungle Warfare School Battalions which are inducted into any of the "seven sisters" -- the north-east states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura -- are trained here in the special requirements for countering insurgency in the area. "Village" because it's nothing but ten-odd shanties perched on stilts on the drop-side of the road up the hill to the Counter Insurgency And Jungle Warfare School run by the Indian Army. rediff.com: Varsha Bhosle on the Counter Insurgency And Jungle Warfare School www.rediff.com /news/2000/feb/21varsha.htm   (1752 words)

National Security Memorandum 124, "Establishment of the Special Group (Counter-Insurgency)," 18 January 1962 To insure proper recognition throughout the U.S. Government that subversive insurgency ("wars of liberation") is a major form of politico-military conflict equal in importance to conventional warfare. To insure the development of adequate interdepartmental programs aimed at preventing or defeating subversive insurgency and indirect aggression in countries and regions specifically assigned to the Special Group (C. I.) by the President, and to resolve any interdepartmental problems which might impede their implementation. To insure that such recognition is reflected in the organization, training, equipment and doctrine of the U.S. Armed Forces and other U.S. agencies abroad and in the political, economic, intelligence, military aid and informational programs conducted abroad by State, Defense, AID, USIA and CIA. www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pentagon2/doc107.htm   (444 words)

Counter-insurgency: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic An insurgency is an armed rebellion by any irregular armed force that rises up against an established authority, government, or administration.... (and civic actions taken to defeat insurgency insurgency quick summary: Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from spanish (from "guerra" meaning war) used to describe small combat groups.... www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/counter-insurgency.htm   (500 words)

Counter-Insurgency Lessons Learned » Outside The Beltway OTB The shortest insurgency (Iran’s postwar Communists) was defeated quickly, but Islamic countries never were fertile ground for Soviet-style communism. Both defeated insurgencies of of their own using brutal but effective force to destroy their own countrymen desire for seperation. Madagascar, Malaya (as it was then known), and Kenya were (at the time the insurgencies began) frank colonial dependencies. www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2004/09/vodkapundit_-_bushs_intelligence   (773 words)

The Washington Monthly One reason not to think about fighting a counterinsurgency war is that it may well confront one with the unhappy fact that the war is effectively unwinnable. Once the insurgency is up and running, once to public services are shot to shit and can't get running due to security problems, once the occupiers and their chosen local leaders cannot deliver basic necessities, then the insurgency holds all the cards and has more appeal to a larger number of people. But third, and more important, because planning for an insurgency is a political decision as much as a military one; it's an admission that a significative part of the population actively opposes you and will have to be dealt with, militarily and politically. www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_12/007764.php   (15621 words)

t a c i t u s Distant mirror Counter-insurgency cannot succeed unless the population itself is convinced that support of the insurgency is not in their best interest. The end of insurgency is not determined by the number of people killed, it is determined by the political attitude of the general population. If the insurgency in Iraq is in fact supported by a majority of the population there, then we have lost already and we may as well go home because we cannot win. www.tacitus.org /story/2004/4/13/94026/2288   (8285 words)

Subject Listing for Land warfare - counter-insurgency operations It argues that the global counter terrorism campaign and the current conflict in Iraq is very different and that the lessons from the two earlier conflicts are irrelevant to dealing with terrorism. Since the formation of the new Transitional Federal Government (TFG) for Somalia, in October 2004, tensions between terrorists and counter-terrorist operatives in Mogadishu have increased and the country is at risk of further jihadism and extreme violence unless the root causes of the conflict are tackled. The first, Riding Pillion for Tackling Terrorism is a High Risk Policy, written by Frank Gregory and Paul Wilkinson looks at Britain's performance in the War on Terrorism and counter terrorism policy and whether supporting the US-led invasion of Iraq put the UK more at risk from terrorist attack. aerade.cranfield.ac.uk /subject-listing/landwar2.html   (3377 words)

National Security Action Memorandum No. 131, "Training Objective for Counter-Insurgency," 13 March 1962 The President has approved the following training objectives for officer grade personnel of the departments and agencies indicated above who may have a role to play in counter-insurgency programs as well as in the entire range of problems involved in the modernization of developing countries. Personnel of all grades will be required to study the history of subversive insurgency movements, past and present, in order to familiarize themselves with the nature of the problems and characteristics of Communist tactics and techniques as related to this particular aspect of Communist operations. Junior and middle grade officers will receive instructions in the tactics and techniques of their particular departments which have an application in combating subversive insurgency. www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pentagon2/doc111.htm   (691 words)

The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Counter-Insurgency: Going Multilateral? The classified report predicts the Vietnam war will wither to a "low level insurgency" by 1973 with 25,000 American military men remaining in the country and multilateral assistance complementing U.S. aid on an expanded scale. Benoit says that these predictions are based on a set of "assumptions" which for lack of space should not be included in his survey-though they could be had upon request. In 1970, the ADB approved its first projects in Vietnam-about $2.7 million toward fisheries development and a rural banking system. www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=356345   (830 words)

Bush to Raise 'Private Army' in Drugs War It concludes that efforts to reduce the drug supply in Colombia have been ineffective because America has focused more on 'counter-narcotics' than 'counter-insurgency' aid. That suspicion has been fueled by a report commissioned by the US Air Force from the Rand Corporation think-tank, which says 'drugs and insurgency are intertwined in complicated and changing ways, but the former cannot be addressed without the latter'. Underlying the concern over the escalation of Plan Colombia is a suspicion that the entire nature of the war on drugs there is threatening to take a dangerous turn in favor of overt military assistance for the Colombian military against left-wing guerrilla groups who, some US analysts claim, benefit most from cocaine production. www.commondreams.org /headlines01/0722-01.htm   (762 words)

The Virginia Quarterly Review » Camelot, Robert Kennedy, and Counter-Insurgency?A Memoir The left-wing insurgency threat lived on into the policies of the Regan administration and was used to justify U.S. intervention in the El Salvador civil war and the Contra war against Nicaragua. Throughout the developing world, left-wing insurgency movements were embracing the Maoist concept of "peoples' war" which envisioned the civilian population as the ocean and revolutionary fighters as the fish. It declared that subversive insurgency ("wars of national liberation") was a threat to the United States and a major form of politico-military conflict equal in importance to conventional warfare and directed the Special Group (CI) to develop interdepartmental programs for "countries and regions specifically assigned to it." vqronline.org /articles/1999/summer/maechling-camelot-robert-kennedy   (6460 words)

Fallujah a lesson in counter-insurgency Berger`s unit now is engaged in what is known as an 'ink blot' approach to the insurgency, a classic model that has been impossible until now given the paucity of U.S. forces in the vast Anbar province. 'Developing the Iraqi army is the mantra, but to kill the insurgency, that`s a law enforcement issue,' Berger said. Steve Johnson, the forward commander of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force in charge of all of Anbar, tags the criticality of the cities to the fact that`s where the voters are. news.monstersandcritics.com /middleeast/article_1047669.php/Fallujah_a_lesson_in_counter-insurgency   (1482 words)

Learn Counter-Insurgency the Right Way The co-ordination of all counter offensive measures is the really important thing, and the sum total of the troops required may reach a high figure in order to achieve simultaneous action. This in itself generally necessitates a considerable degree of dispersion, and where the forces necessary to initiate counter measures are not immediately available, dispersion may be increased by the necessity for protecti9n of life. At the time this proclamation was being read, a counter proclamation was made announcing that a meeting would be held in the afternoon at the Jallianwala Bagh, an enclosed open space within the city which was frequently used for large gatherings. www.geocities.com /pentomicarmyagain/imperialpolicing.htm   (17602 words)

Peasant Studies as Counter-Insurgency Third Image: New faces of peasant insurgency at the end of the Twentieth Century. It was, of course, generally argued that this definition of development was morally sound: people who lost their livelihood as peasants should, in principle, be able to share in the benefits of economic modernisation and industrialisation in the long term, and therefore end up better off in material terms. www.era.anthropology.ac.uk /Era_Resources/Era/Peasants/intro3.html   (656 words)

THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH: Another Ineffective Counter-Insurgency Operation If the insurgency is the same size and Genl Casey is right about the Iraqi army, by 2006 we can have the same force structure as today and have a much smaller footprint... The strategy seems to be to use the USMC to keep throwing the insurgency off guard, to disrupt them, and to attrit them, so the job will be easier when the iraqi forces come on line. The problem is that we cannot use that power to kill insurgents without killing a very large number of civilians as well. www.belgraviadispatch.com /archives/004703.html   (5430 words)

Counter-insurgency expert Sial now to tame Naxals - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition On co-ordination with neighbouring States to counter naxals, he said anti-Veerappan operation was a success due to the joint operation action of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu police. Intelligence will be strengthened to counter naxalism in the State, promised new Director General and Inspector General of Police B S Sial on Wednesday. The new Director General and Inspector General of Police Sial has stated that the police will identify the strengths and weaknesses of Naxals and counter it. www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/sep12005/state1833112005831.asp   (430 words)

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Counterpunch Successful counterinsurgency involves a deep familiarity with the local culture, which is difficult to gain on the fly. Like Thompson, Edward Lansdale, a San Francisco ad-man turned military intelligence officer, saw counterinsurgency as a political as well as military dilemma. Gaining political legitimacy is the key to successfully defeating an insurgency, yet building such popular support can take years if not decades. www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/01/04/counterpunch   (2061 words)

A Judicial Blackout: Judicial Impunity for Disappearances in Punjab, India Police responded to admitted writs with several types of claims: that the detention never occurred, that the disappeared had absconded and was a proclaimed offender, that he was killed in an encounter, that terrorists had kidnapped and killed the disappeared, or that he had escaped after going for recovery of weapons. The decade-long police crackdown of the insurgency after Operation Bluestar led to the deaths of at least 10,000 people in Punjab. 1984 exploded in Punjab, beginning the government’s active armed oppression of Sikhs and a violent police crackdown of the Sikh insurgency. www.law.harvard.edu /students/orgs/hrj/iss15/kaur.shtml   (12427 words)

The Hindu : Front Page : 'Action plan to counter insurgency threat in North-East' The Hindu : Front Page : 'Action plan to counter insurgency threat in North-East' The intelligence chiefs of the North-Eastern States have chalked out an action plan to counter the threat posed by insurgent groups of the region. Gogoi stressed the need for a two-pronged strategy: undertaking development activities in a big way to prevent further recruitment of youths by militant groups and curbing insurgency with a firm hand. www.hindu.com /2004/10/16/stories/2004101602761200.htm   (350 words)

CIJW School appreciated for counter-insurgency efforts : Hindustantimes.com Lt Gen Devraj Singh, deputy general (Infantry) of the Indian Army appreciated the efforts of Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare (CIJW) School, the premier institution of counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism in the world, in devising new ways to confront militants and challenge the ideas they represent. The general who heads the infantry, the cutting edge of the Army, and who is a seasoned campaigner in counter insurgency pointed out, "Long-term success in the fight against terrorism will depend on winning the battle of ideas." www.hindustantimes.com /news/7454_1320859,000800050004.htm   (252 words)

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