..gated community plans
“The foundational concepts of counterinsurgency are that you clear an area, you hold it, and you hold it in a very significant manner,” Petraeus explained in Tel Aviv. “You wall it off. You create gated communities, as we call it,12 or 13 of them in Fallujah alone. You use biometric ID cards because you’re trying to separate the enemy, the extremists, from the people. That’s the fundamental idea.”
url: https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-iraq-on-his-mind-us-savior-general-points-at-the-way-to-victory-in-gaza/