In 2006 they wrote a counter-insurgency manual that drew partly on Britain's colonial wars.
It has rewritten its counter-insurgency manual, replaced its Cold War doctrine, and updated its training.
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The former police captain ran a covert counter-insurgency unit that detained and killed anti-apartheid activists.
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Ethiopia, for its part has fought a brutal counter-insurgency to restore its control over the region.
The big idea that bubbled up through the chain of command was a long-haul counter-insurgency campaign.
In any event, the American army and marines have produced a new counter-insurgency manual.
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Some Latin Americans fear an escalation, in which American troops could become involved in counter-insurgency or drug-bashing.
From 1989 to '98 Aceh was a Military Operations Area, subjected to the army's brutal counter-insurgency campaign.
It might also help if America's counter-insurgency force was at least more accountable to its NATO allies.
In the process, they have improved, with the Italians, for example, commended for counter-insurgency work in Iraq.
Now he believes it is on the right track with the more expensive, more intensive, counter-insurgency strategy.
Seven women in the village lost their husbands during the army's counter-insurgency operations in the early 1990s.
Some 10, 000 British soldiers are based in Afghanistan, many fighting a counter-insurgency campaign in the southern Helmand province.
Moreover, properly trained state-level officers, who know the local language and conditions, have a much better counter-insurgency record.
Counter-insurgency requires large numbers of troops and policemen (the latter are too often weak, notoriously corrupt or drug-addled).
There will be an airborne assault and amphibious landings as well as training in counter-insurgency, counter-piracy and interstate war.
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In the absence of an updated counter-insurgency doctrine of their own, British officers have been using General Petraeus's manual.
The crucial question is whether his ideas the ones enshrined in the counter-insurgency field manual will carry the day in Afghanistan.
Counter-insurgency was politically risky, because it involved sending more American soldiers to Iraq.
Most of them aim to improve America's irregular war-fighting, including counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency.
Their ranks swelled with infusions from a notorious Guatemalan counter-insurgency unit, the Kaibiles.
America is clearly anxious to get other forces on the ground, thus freeing its own troops for counter-insurgency sweeps.
They have also ended an American military counter-insurgency training mission in the country.
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Female police officers also play a crucial counter-insurgency role in Afghanistan, for example body-searching women at checkpoints and government facilities.
Iraq's government is portraying the counter-insurgency as Iraq's patriots versus foreign-sponsored terrorists, not Americans versus a nationalist resistance to occupation.
Petraeus, 60, also pioneered the military technique of counter-insurgency, which puts more emphasis on protecting civilians than on killing enemies.
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Petraeus said his team needs funds to be able to focus on training and equipping forces to conduct counter-insurgency operations.
Army morale hit rock bottom in March 1998, when a counter-insurgency battalion was ambushed in Caqueta province and almost wiped out.
Human rights groups have accused the Pakistani military of widespread human rights abuses in their counter-insurgency campaign in the tribal areas.
The prosecution said Gen Rios Montt was behind the counter-insurgency plan that killed more than 1, 700 members of a Mayan indigenous group in 1982.
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