When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common
understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency
campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and
tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most
Army officers knew more about the U.S. Civil War than they did
about counterinsurgency.
The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual was
written to fill that void. The result of unprecedented
collaboration among top U.S. military experts, scholars, and
practitioners in the field, the manual espouses an approach to
combat that emphasizes constant adaptation and learning, the
importance of decentralized decision-making, the need to understand
local politics and customs, and the key role of intelligence in
winning the support of the population. The manual also emphasizes
the paradoxical and often counterintuitive nature of
counterinsurgency operations: sometimes the more you protect your
forces, the less secure you are; sometimes the more force you use,
the less effective it is; sometimes doing nothing is the best
reaction.
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