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Army Focus on Counterinsurgency Debated Within
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May 6, 2008
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STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
05-06-2008
Army Focus on Counterinsurgency Debated Within
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 11:00-12:00 PM
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STEVE INSKEEP, host:
The U.S. military has been retraining to face even more extreme forms of disorder in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. The Army struggled in recent years to change its focus, to worry less about big conventional battles with rival armies and learn more about counterinsurgency battles among civilians with the regular groups.
Now an internal Pentagon report is asking if that shift went too far. The authors of the report are all Army colonels with significant combat experience and they write that, quote, "The Army is ...
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