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Military Hones a New Strategy on Insurgency
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Published: October 5, 2006

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The United States Army and Marines are finishing work on a new counterinsurgency doctrine that draws on the hard-learned lessons from Iraq and makes the welfare and protection of civilians a bedrock element of military strategy.

The doctrine warns against some of the practices used early in the war, when the military operated without an effective counterinsurgency playbook.

It cautions against overly aggressive raids and mistreatment of detainees. Instead it emphasizes the importance of safeguarding civilians and restoring essential services, and the rapid development of local security forces...

The new doctrine is part of a broader effort to change the culture of a military that has long promoted the virtues of using firepower and battlefield maneuvers in swift, decisive operations against a conventional enemy.

NYTimes

fucking amazing!

I have been preaching 6 out of 9 of these tactics for ages. incredible that the US military actually caught up. /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />

i remember messaging (some of) these to an American who was going to join some private security firm for a mission in Iraq in 2004. his totally expected answer was: fuck off you European coward. WE are the boss there; WE liberated them; THEY should be grateful. If they are not, they can meet my buddy glock here.

my thoughts to that were: oh yeah this is definately going the right way. /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

despite what you may think,.. alot of people there are grateful, if sad...

its not an easy situation...

QUOTE(raum @ Oct 11 2006, 08:53 PM) despite what you may think,.. alot of people there are grateful, if sad...

its not an easy situation...
oh noes indeed. it is a damn damn tough situation. it is hell and hell is spreading. much like some predicted it could as well do.

and I do hope that a lot are grateful. I hope that feeling will last and that these lot are able to influence the even more lot for the better chapski.

i mean... i really honestly hope that this is a figure so fucking incorrectly come to. djesus friggen christ! 655.000 persons died since 2003?!?!? fuck that!

Better late than never. I'm afraid the damage is done. It just seems that those who are actually there...might have been suggesting this a long while ago. This "kick ass-take names" sounds more like a strategy put forth by suits rather than those doing the name-taking.

Zen...

Don't think I don't know what you're doing...Ass ain't been gone that long...

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QUOTE(Brains @ Oct 11 2006, 02:04 PM) oh noes indeed. it is a damn damn tough situation. it is hell and hell is spreading. much like some predicted it could as well do.

and I do hope that a lot are grateful. I hope that feeling will last and that these lot are able to influence the even more lot for the better chapski.

i mean... i really honestly hope that this is a figure so fucking incorrectly come to. djesus friggen christ! 655.000 persons died since 2003?!?!? fuck that!
That figure has been debunked but I'm sure that doesn't matter to you.

QUOTE(Buffmaster @ Oct 12 2006, 04:44 AM) That figure has been debunked but I'm sure that doesn't matter to you.
already?! where?! that figure came out only days ago...

link it up chapski.

Here's your linkyQUOTE(Brains @ Oct 12 2006, 12:38 AM) already?! where?! that figure came out only days ago...

link it up chapski.

Yeah, that study is complete bullshit... I think CNN is carrying the same story you posted too Buff.