Until now, the counterinsurgency campaign has been run largely by the American military.

The response they chose is beginning to echo the Israeli counterinsurgency campaign in the occupied territories.

Any counterinsurgency campaign, we're told, requires a very long commitment.

Military counterinsurgency campaigns are notoriously prone to human rights abuses.

Senior military officers have argued that the immediate threat to American troops makes the counterinsurgency campaign the most urgent effort, according to government officials.

The army struck back with a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign that still scars the country.

And I was fascinated by how it managed to pull off such a successful counterinsurgency campaign.

More than 100,000 people have been killed and 40,000 have disappeared in the Guatemalan army's counterinsurgency campaigns of the last two decades.

It is clear that we do not have the resources, the stomach, or the long-term commitment for a 20-year counterinsurgency campaign.

Most fled during the early 1980's, when a brutal counterinsurgency campaign took more than 10,000 lives and resulted in the destruction of several hundred villages.