Based on our research and the lessons learned from centuries of counterinsurgency efforts, we recommend three major revisions for those drafting the final version.

Military officers further noted that successful counterinsurgency efforts typically required a decade or more - not months.

Bass said the mission in Afghanistan right now is "to turn the campaign from a counterinsurgency effort to a law enforcement effort."

However, these initial counterinsurgency efforts failed to suppress the insurgency.

The people's perception of legitimacy about the host nation and the foreign country's counterinsurgency efforts is where success is determined.

But military analysts here still say they have doubts whether the armed forces are ready to take on a full-fledged counterinsurgency effort.

At the same time, its larger profile soon made it the focus of the state's counterinsurgency efforts.

Commanders point to several signs that their counterinsurgency effort is taking a toll on the rebels.

However, the counterinsurgency efforts remain controversial in Washington and Europe.

An effective counterinsurgency effort meant losing the support of the rural people for whom the government had designed new agrarian reform provisions.