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What is Counterinsurgency Strategy?

In order to understand counterinsurgency strategy, one must first understand what constitutes an insurgency. According to the counterinsurgency manual developed by Gen. David Petraeus in 2006, an insurgency is an “organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict.” The target of an insurgency is the government, not the people.

Counterinsurgency is the effort by a government to defeat an insurgency. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s report to Obama suggested a counterinsurgency approach to achieving the mission that he had been given.

Rolling Stone put an end to that

What is Counterterrorism Strategy?

Terrorism, according to the Defense Department, is the purposeful use of illegal violence or the threat to instill fear, generally against civilians, usually by nongovernmental actors, in order to coerce governments in the pursuit of ideological, religious or political goals.

Counterterrorism is action taken by a government to stop terrorist activity. It is the strategy generally understood to be Vice President Joe Biden’s preference for Afghanistan.

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The six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/arif-alikhan/

Former deputy mayor of Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles

Was responsible for derailing the LAPD’s plan to monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim community

Was appointed as assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Development in Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security in 2009

Became a Professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in 2010

In January 2013, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) reported: “Alikhan is a founder of the World Islamic Organization, which [the Egyptian magazine Rose El-Youssef] identifies as a [Muslim] Brotherhood ‘subsidiary.’ [IPT] suggests that Alikhan was responsible for the ‘file of Islamic states’ in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.”

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/mohamed-elibiary

Admirer of the late Ayatollah Khomeini

Supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood

Has advised numerous law-enforcement organizations on homeland security-related matters

Was named to President Obama’s Homeland Security Advisory Council in 2010

Misused classified documents in an effort to promote the notion that “Islamophobia” was widespread

Claims to be a Muslim “deradicalization expert” who seeks to “promote a centrist public-policy environment”

Identifying himself as a conservative Republican, Elibiary is a longtime official of the Texas Republican Party and served as a delegate for Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. He claims that he can help the Party make inroads with Muslim voters by moving its foreign policy in a pro-Islamic direction.

According to the Clarion Project, “Elibiary is known for his almost daily advocacy for the Muslim Brotherhood on Twitter. He admits being intimately involved with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, which he describes as a ‘social network.’” Moreover, he has long maintained that the American government “needs to deepen our strategic engagement” with the Brotherhood.