Counterterrorism Strategy In Afghanistan Should Compliment Counterinsurgency Efforts

Former Army Vice Chief of Staff General Jack Keane says counterterrorism operations are valuable, but must be used to compliment a "fully integrated, civil military counter-insurgent strategy" in Afghanistan. (0:11)
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General Petraeus discusses the defeat of insurgents

General David Patraeus, the former Commanding General of the Multi-National Force in Iraq and the incoming Commander of the US Central Command, discusses how the militia in Iraq was defeated.
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Secretary of the Army, Pete Geren, explains the challenge of too little home time for troops

Sec. Geren, testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, says that it is a strategic, as well as quality-of-life, issue for troops to have too little time at home in their rotations away from the theater of war. (0:38)
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Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell answers a question about the NATO alliance and counterinsurgency during a press conference at the Pentagon.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell answers a question about fallout from the NATO alliance after comments made last week by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about how NATO was not well trained in counterinsurgency. (0:58)
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