Underkill scalable capabilities for military operations amid populations us forces have engaged in protracted coin campaigns postconflict stabilization and reconstruction operations clandestine searches for terrorists humanitarian intervention multilateral peacekeeping local security force capacity building domestic and foreign . Underkill scalable capabilities for military operations amid populations by david c gompert stuart johnson martin c libicki david r frelinger john gordon iv raymond smith camille a sawak related topics civil military relations global security international affairs international humanitarian assistance national security and terrorism. Underkill book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers the us military is ill equipped to strike at extremists who hide in population. During the first few years of their occupation of iraq us military forces proved to be better at killing insurgents than at defeating the insurgents by convincing the iraqi people to turn against them as a consequence the insurgency grew despite its losses the populations tolerance for the us occupation shrank and us casualties mounted. During the first few years of their occupation of iraq us military forces proved to be better at killing insurgents than at defeating the insurgents by convincing the iraqi people to turn against them as a consequence the insurgency grew despite its losses the populations tolerance for the us occupation shrank and us casualties mounted at a certain point a majority of all iraqis