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To that end, the captain and his men are talking constantly to residents about everything from the price of propane to whether they feel safe in their homes. "I'm trying to find the dude who knows what's going on on the street," Brooks said. "This is what the...
In line with the overarching strategy of the surge, Brooks wants his men walking around like street cops on a beat.
"All an insurgency needs to exist, survive, flourish - and eventually possibly succeed - is the acquiescence of the population," Brooks says. He notes several reasons residents supported the insurgency in Ghazaliya, including a political or religious opposition to the U.S. presence and an unwillingness on the part of Sunnis to submit...
But "just like a blanket overlying all of these reasons, the primary reason for complicity is fear," Brooks adds. U.S. commanders hope that a constant presence of Americans in neighborhoods such as Ghazaliya, rather than simply driving through, will make it harder for insurgents to maintain their grip on the...
After his first day walking house-to-house, Brooks said he had gathered no intelligence about the insurgency in Ghazaliya. But that wasn't the point. "I'm not looking for an immediate payoff," he said. "[I'm looking] to influence the population so that they aren't complicit with...