"war" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This covert campaign, a combination of paramilitary operations and political reforms, was probably America's most successful counterinsurgency war.
- They and a handful of other officers supervised a devastating counterinsurgency war based in part on plans devised at the Pentagon.
- This whiz-bang technology, cool though it seems, is unlikely to tip the balance in the counterinsurgency war.
- Instead it risks dragging the United States into a costly counterinsurgency war.
- For much of that period, the military has waged a fierce counterinsurgency war against leftist guerrillas.
- In one report, the team concluded that "the United States really does not know how to wage an efficient and economical counterinsurgency war."
- They did a study of the major counterinsurgency wars in recent history and found a 100% correlation between successful wars and effective police forces.
- It is hard to win any counterinsurgency war when the insurgents have a sanctuary of the type the Taliban has in Pakistan.
- Top Pentagon officials are also seriously thinking about ways to improve the strategies for waging counterinsurgency wars.
- There is a reason, the gradualists point out, that counterinsurgency wars have tended to take a decade or more.
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