Counterinsurgency Lessons From the Homefront

<p>Can the United States win against the insurgency in Iraq? Yes according to Thomas Hammes. He claims the United States can be victorious against these fourth generation insurgency opponents. He states that They can be beaten but only by coherent patient actions that encompass all agencies of the government and elements of the private sector. Their warfare encompasses the fields of diplomacy defenseintelligence law enforcement and economic and social development.40 Our strategic goals need to be coordinated focused and networked in order to incorporate our interagency efforts against the Iraqi insurgency.Currently the United States faces a dilemma in Iraq: a guarantee of continued counterinsurgency operations if it remains involved or devastating instability and world political failure if it leaves. The sooner the United States develops implements and executes a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy based on historical insurgency examples current lessons learned and proven law enforcement techniques the better the chances to diminish the threat. America's counterinsurgency operations must be a coordinated and consolidated unified effort to include social support economic opportunities community involvement and suppression of insurgency activity. To win the United States must provide economic aid local security and help establish an operational political system.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>