From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

So what has changed about insurgencies?

Not much from what I can see.  Destabilize the govt, terrorize the populace, etc.

Only now its IslamoFacists rather than communists.  The thing with Iraq is
we're trying to combine a number of different tasks along with
counterinsurgency because we've inherited a country with a pre-wasted
infrastructure, and we lack sufficient language experts - something that
really wasn't an issue in south/central america.

"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
news:42e07cb1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> After 1973, the U.S. military quickly dropped the study of insurgency and
> turned back to so-called "real war," he said, but now
officials need to
> study this form of warfare, "not as it once was, but as it is now."

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