Counterinsurgency operations

There were other distractions. Although lacking some of the intensity of the Berkeley confrontations, social upheaval was becoming conspicuous at Stanford. At Edgewood, the counterinsurgency operations of the United States in Viet Nam had been a relatively infrequent topic of conversation. Here, it was difficult to maintain my relatively apolitical views in the face of student demonstrations. 

Marshall, J. 1991. Drug Wars Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third Wrrid. Cohan Cohen Publishers, ForestviUe, ca. 

Maintaining the support of the people is a key aspect not only of counterinsurgency, but of counterterrorism as well." For example, the sensitivity over the potential collateral impact of a bombing operation against Osama bin Laden was heightened due to the need to avoid alienating the population and government of Pakistan." It is a sensitivity that can particniarly arise in a conflict with a non-... 

An armed conflict involving an insurgency/counterinsurgency is not the same type of conflict as an interstate one. Counterinsurgency and counterterrorism are operations that have different strategic objectives than most interstate conflict. It has been noted that [i]n counterinsurgency the distinctions between levels of war, tactical, operational, strategic and political are much less clear than in... 

ISAF (2009) ISAF commander s counterinsurgency guidance, http //www.nato.int/isaf/docu/official texts/counterinsurgency guidance.pdf. Accessed 27 March 2015 Joes A (2007) Urban guerrilla warfare. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington Kalshoven F (1991) A comment to chapter 11 of the commander s handbook on the law of naval operations. Int Law Stud 64 300-330... 

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