CALL: Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq

CALL Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq

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Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq

Army · CALL · Jan 2006 · 12 pages

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2 January-February 2006 • MILITARY REVIEW T HE ARMY HAS LEARNED a great deal in Iraq and Afghanistan about the conduct of counterinsurgency operations, and we must continue to learn all that we can from our experiences in those countries. The insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan were not, in truth, the wars for which we were best prepared in 2001; however, they are the wars we are fighting and they clearly are the kind of wars we must master. America's overwhelming conventional military superiority makes it unlikely that future enemies will confront us head on. Rather, they will attack us asymmetrically, avoiding our strengths—firepower, maneuver, technology—and come at us and our partners the way the insurgents do in Iraq and Afghanistan.

DesignationCALL

EditionJan 2006

StatusActive

Pages12

FunctionSmall Unit Tactics

CollectionLessons Learned