text: Indirect Methods for Countering Insurgencies
  SEPARATE
  10-31. While killing or capturing insurgents in counterinsurgency operations may be necessary, an
  alternate and still effective method in the long run is to separate an insurgency from the population, the
  second phase of the identify, separate, isolate, influence, and reintegrate method. Counterinsurgents need to
  isolate their adversaries from the relevant population, both physically and psychologically. At the same
  time, counterinsurgents should also seek to bolster their own legitimacy and credibility to exercise
  influence over that same population.
  10-32. Establishing security forces in bases among the population furthers the continued separation of the
  local insurgents and the population. The success or failure of the effort depends on effectively and
  continuously securing the population. In some cases, it may be useful to physically secure an area using
  barriers or other means.
  10-33. Combined action programs, such as community stability operations, are local level stability
  operations designed to augment wider counterinsurgency operations. Village or community stability
  operations can work in areas with limited insurgent activity and attempt to establish security and stability
  “bubbles” around rural communities. These cordons are created and ideally expanded to make the area
  inhospitable to insurgents and enable legitimate local governance, which further separates the insurgents
  from the local population. (See JP 3-24, chapter 5, for more information on stability operations.)
  Appropriate tasks for units include, but are not limited to, the following:
  * Helping host-nation security forces maintain entry control points.
  * Providing reaction force capabilities through the parent unit.
  * Conducting multinational, coordinated day and night patrols to secure the town and area.
  * Facilitating local contacts to gather information in conjunction with local host-nation security
  force representatives.
  * Training host-nation security forces in leadership and general military subjects, so they can
  secure the town or area on their own.
  * Conducting operations with other multinational forces and host-nation units, if required.
  * Operating as a team with host-nation security forces to instill pride, leadership, and patriotism.
  * Assisting host-nation government representatives with civic action programs to establish an
  environment where the people have a stake in the future of their town and nation.
  * Protecting host-nation judicial and government representatives and helping them establish the
  rule of law.
  10-34. The lines of operations that support the separation process include—
  * Sweeps and cordon and searches.
  * Combat outposts.
  * Village and community stability operations.
  * Border operations and port of entry operations.
  * Strikes, raids, and ambushes.
  * Interdiction operations.
  * Military deception and military information support operations.
  * Electronic warfare.
  * Information collection.
  ISOLATE
  10-35. The isolation phase objective is to break the psychological and physical links between insurgents
  and the remainder of the insurgent organization and its support base. The first step in this segregation is to
  identify vulnerabilities of the insurgents. This requires a deep understanding of the operational environment
  and, more specifically, an understanding of all the adversaries (for example, the insurgent network,
  transnational terrorists, and external supporters).