Introduction
An insurgency is defined as the organised use of subversion and violence to size, nullify, or challenge political control of a region. Essentially, it is a struggle for power and resources. No two insurgencies are identical. Every insurgency is shaped by conflict specific factors such as culture, history, religion, politics, economics and history. In certain ways, I find insurgencies are very much like cancer. It develops in stages and the extent of damages is usually devastating in the later stage. Cancer treatments or counter-insurgencies are often a protracted battle. While the nutrients in our body feed cancer cells, the support of the people fuel insurgencies. An insurgency is unlikely to gain momentum and displaced
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He had explicitly identified that the support of the people was critical in countering insurgency in Malaya. In his words, he said that “the answer lies not in pouring more troops into the jungle, but rests in the hearts and minds of the people.” The ‘hearts and minds’ approach to counter-insurgencies seeks to isolate the population from the insurgents to starve them of support in terms of resources. It places emphasis on the political rather than military means to defeat the insurgents. And I cite a famous line by Mao Zedong “A revolutionary war is 20 percent military action and 80 percent …show more content…
It can be stemmed from historical, political, social, cultural, economic and religious conditions. The people usually suffered grievances or are extremely upset from the occupying power along the above-mentioned fault lines. To put it simply, the lack of government’s attention to the problems of the population leads to the insurgencies. For counter insurgencies to be successful, we need to nip the problems in the bud. A strong governance and resolution from the occupying power must be displayed to counter insurgencies. The occupying power needs to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the population. The population need to be convinced that the government can protect them and had their best interest at heart. The second that people cease to support the insurgents, it is only a matter of time before the insurgencies are quelled. The occupying
General Petraeus and his Leadership Approach to Mosul A Leaders Restoration of a Nation Following the invasion of Coalition Forces into Iraq in March of 2003 the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, commanded by Major General David Petraeus, found itself in the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul (Lundberg, 2008). With the invasion complete and capturing of the capitol city of Baghdad accomplished, Major General Petraeus and staff began confronting the issues and concerns of what lay ahead for the duration of the unit’s deployment (Lundberg, 2008). The development and implementation of Major General David Petraeus’ strategy to bring stability to Mosul, Iraq and surrounding areas following the 2003 invasion provides insight into his leadership approach
Many countries became very hostile with their lands and they did not want anyone taking over. Anger spread throughout the world, causing more fights and
The author argues that there is something intrinsic to Ba’th party that led to their decisions on what to do when they came into power in Iraq.
nationalism is the main cause. Many nations thought they were better than the others, which can and did lead to many problems. It could anger the other nations to fight or it could influence the nation with a high source of nationalism to do irrational things. In the background essay of the documents packet, it states that in the area of southeastern Europe known as the Balkans, the spirit of nationalism ran high which caused problems. Ethnic groups revolted and the Serbian nationalism group called the Black Hand was the trigger which fired off war.
There are those who hold a strong belief that it was the unconventional, guerilla tactics that helped to even the odds. Lewis H. Gann in Guerrillas in History sees the American Revolution as of little importance in understanding guerilla warfare. Gann points out that the British were capable of adapting to the guerilla skirmishing styles of the militias, comprised of farmers and other non-career soldiers. The war was decided by regular soldiers and not solely upon militias utilizing guerilla or native-inspired fighting techniques. Gann goes on to highlight the obvious oversight of many writers concerning counterinsurgency.
Political instability is caused by corrupt politicians who only care about lining their own pockets rather than taking care of those who live in their country. When the citizens are not taken care of they tend to come together and try to over throe the government for the change they want. If the change doesn’t come the civilians can use violence to over throw the government which can lead to a civil war between the “rebels” and the
What caused the problem to occur was only some people liked the owner of the country so they were trying to get rid of him.which made the war start. Yusra handled the problem by fleeing with her sister. They had some one help them but they tried puting 18 people in a 6 person boat. But when they started going the motor stopped and water started spilling in. So Yusra and her sister jumped in the water and they pushed it over
However, General political tactics to reduce violence and reestablish metropolitan governments in his area of operations. His foresight and cognitive reasoning of displaying generosity and decent humanity while maintaining a military authority in the area was more instrumental to the Iraqi people than imposing the United States military might. He stated, “If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem.” General Petraeus understood the key component to stabilizing not only his area of operations, but within the theater, was to empower the people in the region to govern themselves and be self-reliant.
Many believe that the Syrian war has been prolonged by outside involvement contributing to the war in Syria. A big conflicting matter is the support of different oppositions when going from country to country. Recently a big issue is Russia’s support to the Assad Regime against the United States’s support for the Syrian Rebels. This truly is believed to be the single largest factor contributing to prolonged war and failure of reconciliation efforts (Document F). US led coalition airstrikes and Russian airstrikes have also played a big part in delaying the end to the war in Syria.
Two major factors triggered this war and conflict; tyranny and liberty. Tyranny simply is when people take over power unconstitutionally and oppress their people. However, liberty is freedom from somethings or freedom to do something. This was a serious issue that needed a drastic measure.
There seems to be many causes of the violence in the southwest mostly and primarily due to brutal and senseless encounters at Apache Pass. These encounters came about due to personal vendettas from the U.S government and an Apache leader named Cochise. For a while the two had peace between them before farm was raided and a child happened to be taken causing the American government to be suspicious and met with Cochise who was known for having peaceful talks with Americans prior to this encounter. After this meeting the army decided to hold Cochise’s family hostage even though he had promised to help the government find out where the boy went. After this Cochise had to escape without his family and apparently a few members of the Apache tribe were killed and caused Cochise to become more of a revenge killer than a war hero!
In the vast expanse of time there has almost always been a conflict somewhere in the world between two or more parties. War and conflicts is how disputes have been settled for thousands of years and even today there are conflicts beginning and ending all the time all over the world. A side effect of these conflicts is the mass amount of resources, namely money that is needed to fund and supply the personal involved in them. This results in the view point that war is a business and there is money to be made from conflicts. “What Keeps ISIS Running” by Egyptian Streets is a rhetorical argument about the funding ISIS receives and the problems and people involved in the process.
Years of struggle through war and politics have morphed from the idea or cause warlord led drives which essential
The American Revolution set the background for the modern nation state as well as molding the modern Army. Both countries have many differences and similarities, ranging from the individuals fighting these wars to tactics and strategies they used to win. These countries shared the same idea of freedom and independence, the difference is they used different methods of accomplishing this goal. It’s difficult to pin point which country chose the best method, but we compare some of the facts and take a deeper look as to what was transpiring in both of these Revolutions. In the 18th Century the main problem the Army had was manpower.
The causes and effects of the war are mainly political, socio-economic and religious. The main cause and spark of the Lebanese conflict was driven by political issues and complications within the government as well as the bordering countries’ complications. The Arab-Israeli conflict during 1970 to 1973 played a huge role in sparking the Lebanese conflict because the Israelis took control over the land which caused a huge influx of refugees to the surrounding countries, including Lebanon. Lebanon was home to more than 100,000 of the Muslim refugees and is still refuge to many to this day.