From Torching to Teaching

Marine Combined Action Platoons won hearts and minds—and some ferocious battles—deep inside enemy strongholds. With its “clear-hold-build” philosophy, the “Surge” initiated in 2007 by General David Petraeus proved to be dramatically effective in taming violence in Iraq. While touted by the United States Marine Corps as “a new counterinsurgency strategy,” the practice of using small …

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