Michael Mullen

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

American Admiral

James G. Stavridis

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

American Educator

John Conyers

If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.

American Politician

Jack Keane

Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.

American General

Ro Khanna

Our troops shouldn't be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

We don't know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency.

Bolivian Politician

Michael T. Flynn

The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.

Michael Scheuer

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

American Public Servant

Laura Ingraham

All the way back to Dartmouth, I was part of the insurgency.

American Celebrity

Hamid Karzai

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

Statesman

Insurgency involves forceful actions, not just peaceful protests or disagreements.

Violent Actions

Insurgency is usually organized by a group, not an individual's effort.

Group Effort

Insurgency's goal is change, typically political or social system overhauls.

Change Aim

Insurgency warfare is often unpredictable and not structured like traditional wars.

Irregular Warfare

Insurgency is typically carried out by small groups, not large armies.

Small Groups

Insurgencies may involve or affect civilians, not just military personnel.

Civilian Involvement

Insurgencies involve fighting the established government, aiming to undermine it.

Anti-Government

Foreign troops may intervene in an insurgency, for support or suppression.

Foreign Troop Role

Political disagreements and disenchantment often fuel an insurgency.

Political Motives

 no insurgency. Talk to anybody who was over there in the first six months. We had six months to feel the lob, to get the job done, and we dicked around for six months. And then they turned on us. Why? Because they just got fed up. They saw what we did to Saddam. They said, "You're that powerful, you can resurrect this country.

Thomas Barnett:...

 with a lot of conflict there's been a lot of insurgency in the last few decades in this part of the world funding is required to carry out insurgent activity you do need funding if you are you know buying ammunition if you're buying guns so maybe insurgents needed the banter raise to fund their activities

Going Undercover to Save...

 Let's not neglect the insurgency just to the south, Balochistan. Two weeks ago, Balochi rebels attacked a Pakistani military garrison, and this was the flag that they raised over it. The post-colonial entropy that is happening around the world is accelerating,

Parag Khanna maps the...

 armed insurgency keanu wanted to know how they saw their future i kept challenging them how do you see yourself where are you going to be in 10 years and then eventually mohammad rasaf shrugged and said i don't know i'll probably be dead

Portraits of Afghanistan...

 insurgency we provided solar lighting for the school in village health clinic and winter coats and medicines to help the kids get through the winter when mortality rates usually jump this helped our soldiers build influence and reduced

Encouraging troops to be...

 the world's papa are one comes out of Afghanistan we also see there of course terrorism this is where al-qaeda's staged from we also see a very strong insurgency embedded there so this terrorism concern is also part

A Navy Admiral's...

 Today, he could never do that. So the idea that we deployed the troops to respond to the Taliban insurgency is mistaken. Rather than preceding the insurgency, the Taliban followed the troop deployment,

Rory Stewart: Time to...

 eight years of occupation the insurgency that's been unleashed on your people the tens about the hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths oh because of oil you can't help but think that you talk about

A radical experiment in...

 heartbroken, Lili’uokalani said, “by the base ingratitude of the very persons whose fortunes he had made.” Prepared to fight, she assumed the throne. Despite death threats and rumors of insurgency,

The dark history of the...

 the insurgency that's been unleashed on your people, the tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths? All because of oil. You can't help but think that.