Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 45 insurgent sanctuaries 43 resurgent Taliban militants 43 counterinsurgency manual 42 insurgent strongholds 42 militant sanctuaries 42 counterinsurgency doctrine 41 tribal regions 41 Durand Line 41 militant safe havens 41 resurgent Taliban 41 Taleban insurgents 41 Thom Shanker 40 Taliban strongholds 40 rebel strongholds 40 disarm militias 40 troop buildup 40 Krepinevich 40 mountainous frontier 40 militant strongholds 40 sanctuaries 39 semi autonomous tribal 39 counterinsurgency strategy 39 territorial sovereignty 39 troop escalation 39 lawless 39 lawless tribal 39 porous border 38 counterinsurgency warfare 38 Korengal 38 Federally Administered Tribal Areas 38 Operation Steel Curtain 38 insurgent 38 lawless frontier 38 Pakistan lawless tribal 38 insurgents 38 Haqqanis 38 analyst Anthony Cordesman 38 Aksai Chin 38 Carlotta Gall 38 warlordism 37 infiltrators 37 UNAMI 37 Taliban 37 Jeffersonian democracy 37 lawless tribal regions 37 western Anbar province 37 Sunni triangle 37 troop surge 37 Tribal Areas 37 ungoverned 37 Helmand provinces 37 counterinsurgency tactics 37 al Qa'eda 37 Anbar province 37 insurgencies 37 writer Rahim Faiez 37 renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 37 Gen Petraeus 36 Petreaus 36 insurgent hideouts 36 counterinsurgency 36 Cordesman 36 Geneva conventions 36 stubborn insurgency 36 militias 36 Waziristan 36 US backed 36 garrisons 36 troop levels 36 breakaway regions 36 TSZ 36 al Anbar 36 Gen McChrystal 36 Anbar Province 36 Nick Turse 36 lashkars 36 Petraeus 36 Taleban 36 Michael O'Hanlon 36 Shiite militias 36 Al Qaeda 36 troop reductions 36 restive tribal 36 combating extremism 35 Waziristan tribal region 35 Odierno 35 gradual drawdown 35 Garmser 35 Anthony Cordesman 35 sovereignty 35 civilian casualties 35 counter insurgency 35 insurgency 35 Afghanistan 35 al Qaida 35 al Qa'ida 35 CIA drone strikes 35 restive Anbar province 35 Sunni Triangle 35 safe havens 35 T. Odierno