counter-insurgency tactics a punch they didn't have in Vietnam. ‘At the same time, British Army doctrine, reflecting many years of patient counter-insurgency operations, had emphasised the need for controlled and accurate fire in the attack.’.‘Henceforth, the fight would get really dirty, as all counter-insurgency campaigns inevitably must.’.‘Among them will be, without question, a large contingent of CIA and special forces operatives whose specialty is counter-insurgency.’.‘The US command also announced that it is stepping up counter-insurgency training for newly arrived officers to give them the latest tactics about protecting patrols from such attacks.’.‘The main missions of the aircraft, in addition to basic and advanced pilot training, are border patrol and counter-insurgency operations.’.‘Several years of counter-insurgency drives destroyed the remaining guerrilla bases.’.Training, and restructuring of the armed forces, will take time. To make progress, these rivalries will need to be better managed. ‘However, they are very good at peace-keeping, counter-insurgency and all of that traditional imperial constabulary-type work.’ The Mozambican army, since its creation in 1994 following the end of the civil war, was never designed to combat this type of insurgency and has for years been in direct rivalry of the elite paramilitary police units.It remains a strategy entailing violence used by the weak and desperate against. ‘Some much more subtle and effective form of counter-insurgency strategy is necessary.’ Insurgency, like war, has an enduring nature and a changing character.‘All counter-insurgency struggles have to be waged at both the military and the political levels.’.‘The counter-insurgency force has a long list of achievements to its credit.’.‘Peasant leaders say their communities are still targeted in a counter-insurgency campaign by the military that intimidates poor, mainly indigenous civilians.’.soldiers in a type of guerrilla war that even many counter-insurgency experts consider impossible to win.’ ‘His big point is that the US mainly needs counter-insurgency forces and expertise, but instead has ordinary infantry etc.’.‘Much as some may think otherwise, counter-insurgency and its cousin counter-terrorism are old businesses with a lot of history.’.‘He receives detailed and painstaking instruction about the various phases and types of conflict, such as counter-insurgency warfare.’.‘There are quite a few aircraft like this available, and they are used by many third world countries for border patrol and counter-insurgency.’.‘As long as populations are menaced by banditism, civil war, guerrilla campaigns and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be safe and secure.’.‘As long as populations are menaced by banditry, civil war, guerrilla campaigns, and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be secure.’.‘As a recent Amnesty International report makes clear, ‘The use of paramilitaries continues to be integral to the military's counter-insurgency strategy’.’.