"After America's Iraq adventure devolved into a debacle, a chorus of commentators and analysts noted that the U.S. military had no plan to fight a counterinsurgency campaign. Given the failure of conventional tactics, America in the last two years has redoubled its efforts to develop a new strategy to fight the Iraqi insurgency, and has gone so far to place our leading counterinsurgency expert, General David Petraeus, in charge of the Iraq theater. In sum, there seems to be a growing consensus that for better or worse, counterinsurgency will be a core tactic in future American military campaign."@en
"How do we fight against insurgency that so often strategically positions itself in sacred spaces like mosques and shrines? As the contributors show, counterinsurgency efforts on religiously contentious terrain is a widespread phenomenon in recent times, ranging from North Africa to Southeast Asia."
"Addresses the unique aspect of waging a counterinsurgency campaign : fighting against an insurgency that often strategically positions itself on the "hallowed ground" that surrounds holy places of worship. Assembled expert's essays explore this widespread phenomenon of counterinsurgency efforts on religiously contentious terrain in Iraq, India, Kashmir, Pakistan, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia. The first comprehensive account of this increasingly pivotal component of contemporary war."

Treading on hallowed ground counterinsurgency operations in sacred spaces