insurgency

We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.

Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.

We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.