counterinsurgency guidance, co-authored by general david petraeus. a strategy that focused less on conventional warfare and more on securing the support of the population, ensuring aid and infrastructure, trying to win the trust of the people. you quite literally wrote the book on counterinsurgency, coined what our viewers might understand better as the idea of nation building. did that work in afghanistan? i think it actually did work during the period that we had the resources to do that. the problem is that in a situation like afghanistan, you do have to be prevailing, if you will, in the security realm because that is the foundation that allows you to do all of these other tasks. people say that
association after weeks of agonizing. we will see what the blog is going to be called now. thank you. an attack in southern afghanistan killed several children as new instructions from general petraeus were given to the u.s. troops in afghanistan. white house correspondent has that story from the pentagon. a suicide bomb attack targeting an afghanistan official killed five children although it missed him. violence picked up as the forces are moving into tough areas of southern afghanistan and targeted assassinations by the taliban are a growing trend. this as general petraeus issues the counterinsurgency guidance to all operations in afghanistan. general petraeus advises troops to learn and adapt. he says in combat hunt aggressively but use only the firepower needed to win a fight.
association after weeks of agonizing. we will see what the blog is going to be called now. thank you. an attack in southern afghanistan killed several children as new instructions from general petraeus were given to the u.s. troops in afghanistan. white house correspondent has that story from the pentagon. a suicide bomb attack targeting an afghanistan official killed five children although it missed him. violence picked up as the forces are moving into tough areas of southern afghanistan and targeted assassinations by the taliban are a growing trend. this as general petraeus issues the counterinsurgency guidance to all operations in afghanistan. general petraeus advises troops to learn and adapt. he says in combat hunt aggressively but use only the firepower needed to win a