#insurgency

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#america #american #attacks #battalions #began

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs. ↗

— Stuart Bowen

#happened #incessant #infrastructure #insidious #insurgency

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty. ↗

— T.E. Lawrence

#military #beauty

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#fourth-generation-warfare #change

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#al-qaeda #am #commander #encouraged #face

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

— John Abizaid

#i #i do #know #military #military operation

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#attack #come #go #helping #innocent

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#i #insurgency #never #terrorism

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#iraq #islamic #significant #tangled #very

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted