Counterinsureency in Iraq:Lessons Old and New

摘要

From Vietnam to El Salvador and now to Iraq,America has had mostly ill-fated experiences in fighting counterinsurgencies.Over the past 40 years,the United States has been frustrated in such operations,seemingly condemned to repeat past mistakes."It's like the 1993 film,Groundhog Day,where Bill Murray plays an arrogant television weatherman fated to relive the same day-February 2nd-and the same unedify-ing experiences over and over,"said RAND Washington Office Director Bruce Hoffman,who briefly served with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad during the sping of 2004 advising on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency.