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Counterinsurgency warfare is twenty per cent military and eighty per cent political, McMaster argues, using the classic doctrine developed by the British in [[Malaysia]] in the 1940s-50s. The focus of operations is on the civilian population: isolating residents from insurgents, providing security, building a police force, and allowing political and economic development to take place so that the government commands the allegiance of its citizens. A counterinsurgency strategy involves both offensive and defensive operations, but there is an emphasis on using the minimum amount of force necessary. From Iraq McMaster collaborated remotely with Petraeus in Fort Leavenworth on revision of the Army's Counterinsurgency Field Manual.
Counterinsurgency warfare is twenty per cent military and eighty per cent political, McMaster argues, using the classic doctrine developed by the British in [[Malaysia]] in the 1940s-50s. The focus of operations is on the civilian population: isolating residents from insurgents, providing security, building a police force, and allowing political and economic development to take place so that the government commands the allegiance of its citizens. A counterinsurgency strategy involves both offensive and defensive operations, but there is an emphasis on using the minimum amount of force necessary. From Iraq McMaster collaborated remotely with Petraeus in Fort Leavenworth on revision of the Army's Counterinsurgency Field Manual.
McMaster and his staff in field tried to teach soldiers to distinguish between [[nationalist]]-minded [[Sunni]]s and [[Salafi]] extremists, a distinction that, in the war’s first two years, American soldiers were rarely able to make; they were simply trained to fight “bad guys.”
==Afghanistan==
==Afghanistan==