counter-insurgencies

In the last 28 years, the Indian army leadership has only known, planned and fought CI (counter-insurgency) operations called 'No War No Peace' in various forms on the LoC and the hinterland. Most of the present army leadership, including the army chief, have had numerous postings in Jammu and Kashmir, from captain ...

NAF sensitises journalists on reportage of counter-insurgency operations ... THE Nigerian Air Force, NAF, yesterday, organised a one-day sensitisation workshop for journalists covering defence beat on the requisite skills and knowledge on the application of air power in the counter-insurgency operations.

This essay provides the perspective of a Foreign Service Officer who was involved in Vietnam in several capacities, including Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), during 1965-75. He maintains that the South Vietnamese, with massive U.S. assistance, were decisively ...

... towards comprehensively breaking this nexus through a multi-pronged strategy that encompasses preventing the youth from joining the militant ranks, choking the financing and supply of arms to terrorist outfits and simultaneously launching counter insurgency operations throughout the Kashmir region to ...

Space travel is expensive and time-consuming. Short of figuring out some sort of warp drive, there's a good chance that humanity's push to the stars will take generations to accomplish. In science fiction such as Star Wars and Star Trek, warp drives are a prerequisite technology. How can you run a ...

The Nigerian Army has reviewed the pattern of information management in all ongoing counter insurgency operations and will henceforth communicate only successes rather than strategies of operations. The Acting Director Defence Information (DDI), Brig.-Gen. John Agim, said on Friday in a statement ...

Security forces from Telangana and Chhattisgarh had launched the counter-insurgency operation in the forest on the inter-state border based on inputs about a gathering of a large group of ultras, officials had said. “Susheel Kumar, a junior commando of the Greyhounds, lost his life,” officials had said.

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Guwahati, Mar (IBNS) : A contingent from Uganda People's Defence Force recentlyunderwent training at the elite Counter Insurgency Jungle Warfare (CIJW) School, in Vairengte, Mizoram, India, which is said to be one of the premier counter insurgency training institutions in the world. Kohima based ...

These measures form part of a new way that we, in the United States, govern ourselves at home, inspired by the theory and practice of counterinsurgency warfare. These measures fit together, like pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, in a momentous political transformation: not from the rule of law to a provisional ...

New Delhi, Feb 24 (UNI) Indian Army and the Seychelles People's Defence Force on Saturday began their eighth edition of military exercise at Mahe Island in the archipelago with an aim to fighting insurgency, terrorism and piracy threats. The Seychelles archipelago falls on one of the most significant sea ...

Here's the New “Bronco II” Precision Strike Aircraft for Counterinsurgency/Irregular Warfare missions ... The name of the new light aircraft was inspired by the OV-10 Bronco, the U.S. aircraft developed in the 1960s as a special aircraft for counter-insurgency (COIN) combat and used today by the U.S. Special ...

Myanmar is intent on developing its armed forces because of various ethnic insurgencies, the growing threat of ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army) Islamist terrorism in the shadow of the Bengali Muslim land grab in Rakhine, the intrigues of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the ...

Maj.-Gen. Rogers Nicholas, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, says the ongoing counter-insurgency operation is guided by Rules of Engagement and respect for human rights. Nicholas also disclosed that over 3,000 persons were rescued by troops from Boko Haram captivity in the past few ...

Ned Dalby is a senior research analyst with International Crisis Group and lead contributor to the new report, Double-Edged Sword: Vigilantes in African Counterinsurgencies. He joins me to discuss the origin, operation, and demobilization of these groups, their role in counterinsurgency, and ultimately, ...

The Nigerian army says it has inducted a unit of Cameroon defence forces into the Lafiya Dole operation to fast-track the campaign against Boko Haram insurgents. Onyema Nwachukwu, deputy director, army public relations, operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in a statement issued in Maiduguri.

The Taliban was and remains an insurgency. It must be dealt with as an insurgency by focusing on the human terrain. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) must develop and pursue an indigenous Counter Insurgency (COIN) campaign focused on the principles of security, ...

Perhaps We Can Eat Soup with a Knife: Prospect Theory and the Use of Conventional Military Strategies in Counterinsurgency Operations ... Specifically, the question of whether the counterinsurgency's own strategy can incentivize the adoption of a clearly suboptimal policy by the weaker party in the dyad has not been ...

On Friday afternoon, Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, known in the literary circles of Kashmir as Madhosh Balhami, thought of penning a poem on dowry. Sitting on the porch near the main door of his house in Balhama village, 18 kilometers south of Srinagar, he was weaving his words into verses when two ...

During his address, he highlighted Pakistan's sincere efforts to tackle the menace of terrorism, Ashley added that Islamabad is likely to proceed with its counter-insurgency operations and border management efforts along its western border while sustaining counter-terrorism and paramilitary operations ...

Space travel is expensive and time-consuming. Short of figuring out some sort of warp drive, there's a good chance that humanity's push to the stars will take generations to accomplish. In science fiction such as Star Wars and Star Trek, warp drives are a prerequisite technology. How can you run a ...

Bottom Line: Conflict follows humanity wherever it goes, and the world's population is increasingly living in cities. Waning are the days of the Maoist blueprint of rural insurgents pillaging small peripheral villages and seeking refuge in the hard terrain of mountainous caverns, dense forests or expansive ...