Counterinsurgency Quotes

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

  John Abizaid

  Military, Type, Operations

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• Creo que la misión central en Afganistán ahora mismo es proteger a la población, sin duda, y eso incluiría a todo el mundo, y que en una, en una insurgencia y una contrainsurgencia, ese es realmente el centro de gravedad.

  Michael Mullen

  Pensar, Gente, Sería

  "Mullen on Taliban, mission in Afghanistan". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• A veces, no hacer nada es la mejor reacción.

  Bob Woodward

  Doing Nothing, Sometimes, Reactions

  Bob Woodward (2011). “Obama's Wars”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of counterinsurgency, in fact, is that every situation is truly unique, has its own context, its own specific set of factors - and you have to understand that context in enormous detail to be able to craft a sound and comprehensive approach.

  David Petraeus

  Unique, Ideas, Iraq

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

  Rahm Emanuel

  Believe, Levels, Strategy

  Fuente: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret.

  Robert Parry

  Militar, Guerra, Media

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• Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the world and an inexorable demographic decline. The operation in Gaza
  is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision with which I identify, which once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Wings, Two, Political

  "Israel Is Making It Hard To Be Pro-Israel". Article by Jonathan Chait, nymag.com. July 29, 2014.

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• 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

  Fighting, Goal, United States

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• El estado mayor del general es una colección cuidadosamente seleccionada de asesinos, espías, genios, patriotas, operadores políticos y auténticos maníacos. Hay un antiguo jefe de las fuerzas especiales británicas, dos Navy Seals, un comando de las fuerzas especiales afganas, un abogado, dos pilotos de caza y al menos dos docenas de veteranos de combate y expertos en contrainsurgencia. Se autodenominan en broma Team America (Equipo América), tomando el nombre de la parodia de South Park sobre el despiste militar, y se enorgullecen de su actitud positiva y su desdén por la autoridad.

  Michael Hastings

  Actitud, Equipo, Militar

  "The Runaway General: The Profile That Brought Down McChrystal" de Michael Hastings, www.rollingstone.com. 22 de junio de 2010.

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• 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

  Son, Thinking, Iraq

  Fuente: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Justo a tiempo para la reanudación del debate sobre la guerra en el Congreso, la editorial de la Universidad de Chicago ha publicado The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. . . . Se trata de un volumen interesante, no sólo porque te da una idea de lo que piensan nuestros teóricos militares más prestigiosos, sino porque a veces lo que piensan es lo último que te esperas. Especialmente interesante es una sección titulada "Paradojas de las operaciones de contrainsurgencia", que nos dice: A veces, no hacer nada es la mejor reacción" y "A veces, cuanta más fuerza se utiliza, menos eficaz es".

  David L. Ulin

  Militar, Guerra, Marina

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