""Anyone who comes to a counter-insurgency thinking it's about killing terrorists is missing the boat," said Becker.
"It's really about winning the people. You can kill all the terrorists but then you've pissed people off and created 100 more," he explained."
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Excellent article. So many posters here seem to think that what we should be doing is flattenng the country - that the military's hands are tied by weak-willed liberals or concerns about how it would play out on TV screens around the world.
That's not the case. Fighting the insurgency in Iraq is not about overwhelming force.
For an FA guy he's a pretty cocky cannoneer .... no argument from me.