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...th a doctorate in the study of insurgency and history, he is an advisor on counterinsurgency to the Australian and U.S. governments. His models draw a sharp distinction

...mmand of ISAF and United States Central Command. TF180 is oriented towards counterinsurgency, or "people-centric" operations providing security for the Afghan people. ...Operations Command, which is oriented toward counterterrorism rather than counterinsurgency. Their techniques include direct action (military)|direct action by means o

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...Baghdad, Iraq (2003-2004); founding director of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center at [[Fort Leavenworth]]; military fellow, Council on Foreign Relatio

...rewrite of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine, ''Field Manual 3-24 (FM3-24), Counterinsurgency'', <ref name = FM3-24>{{citation | publisher = US Department of the Army | title = Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency

==Counterinsurgency== In May 2009, he coauthored a Brookings study on how to assess the progress in counterinsurgency and peace operations. <blockquote>One is that the current Afghanistan strat

With [[Nathaniel Fick]], he suggested changes in the counterinsurgency doctrine used in Iraq for Afghanistan, based both on operational experience | title =Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition

...he Senate Arms Control Observer Group; coauthor of ''[[Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency]]''; [[Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee]] and the [[Center for Nava

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==General counterinsurgency issues==

...the military, he is considered one of the leading analysts on insurgency, counterinsurgency, and national strategy; his doctoral dissertation dealt with the post-Vietn ...> and he was a major contributor to the main U.S. Army doctrinal manual on counterinsurgency.

...stan in 2006 He also presents regularly at the US Air Force's Contemporary Counterinsurgency Warfare School on the media and embedded reporting. He was a signalman and

...urgency|insurgents]] in Baghdad in 2006, and is a highly visible critic of counterinsurgency doctrine. He also questions the ability of the United States to exert chang ...he [[Vietnam War]] could have been won, if only the U.S. had used a proper counterinsurgency approach. Bacevich describes Gentile's core concern as "an infatuation with

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He was the first Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Fe

...John Nagl, CNAS President and one of the coauthors of ''Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency'',<ref name = FM3-24>{{citation | publisher = US Department of the Army | title = Field Manual 3-24: Counterinsurgency

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...y]] officer who, throughout a long career, was a specialist in insurgency, counterinsurgency and [[special operations]] before that was recognized as a specialty, and c ==Vietnam War: Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities==

===Counterinsurgency=== ...ned both insurgency and proxy war, the U.S. struggled to find an effective counterinsurgency strategy, eventually refocused on conventional military action, and left th