Operation Inherent Resolve: The Merits—and Pitfalls—of Fighting “By, With, and Through” a Partner Force
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How to Counter an Insurgency With a Partner Force
i'm just curious and this is an open question for either of you but was that difficult to do while working with a partner force. Was there something about working by within through iraqi security forces that force the us to have to delegate decision making down or was that maybe not so much a factor? I think that holding target engagement authority at a higher level came from a good place in the sense that it was driven largely by wanting to avoid civilian casualties which of course is a good objective. i've made a distinction between low intensity and high intensity combat advising could you explain what you mean by those terms and discuss some of the differences between the two approaches.
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