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Article: Training indigenous security forces at the Upper End of the counterinsurgency spectrum.(PILLARS OF SUCCESS)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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The Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq... is a model for the future: helping others to help themselves is critical to winning the long war.
--Quadrennial Defense Review Report, 6 February 2006
THE "COUNTERINSURGENCY SPECTRUM" may be less of a linear phenomenon than a multifaceted matrix. In that matrix, various factors define the nature of the fight and the challenges facing those who seek to train indigenous security forces to battle the insurgents. The basis of the insurgency is one of the factors: a sectarian insurgency may be more intractable than one based on a particular ideology. An insurgency that limits itself to attacks on valid ...