Can a Conventional Army Vanquish a Terrorist Insurgency? Major-General (res.) Yaakov Amidror
The backdrop of Israel's 2006 war with Hizballah, and the U.S.-led campaign against the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, has led many analysts to conclude that conventional military forces cannot vanquish terrorist groups waging an insurgency campaign. This approach has encouraged a large degree of defeatism in many Western countries that have preferred to withdraw from such confrontations instead of standing their ground...
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