It has so far failed to articulate a coherent counter-terrorism policy.
General Abizaid, the CENTCOM commander, knew that the coalition had to have a single, coherent counter-insurgency strategy, and it had to have one soon.
This is a year when the President needed to use the State of the Union to offer a coherent counter-argument to the Republican raging against government in all its forms.
After two years of attempts to produce a coherent counter-terrorism strategy that have produced scant results, European officials are galvanised by the Paris, attacks and are racing to correct perceived gaps.
The memo concluded: "If we do not develop soon a coherent counter-insurgency plan combining political and military, Iraqi and international initiatives, we will creep closer and closer to that tipping point, beyond which so many Iraqis sympathize with or join the insurgency that we cannot prevail at any bearable price".
We need a more coherent counter-terrorism response than Donald Trump's call to "close down" parts of the Internet in response to ISIS recruitment, his labeling of free speech advocates as "foolish," and his calls to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
As various British and French ships broke off into personal duels and some latecoming British ships struggled to get into action, Villaret led his flagship Montagne to the north and began assembling a coherent counter-force from those of his fleet which had escaped Howe's assault.
They found eight clinically and conceptually coherent counter-transference reactions (factors) that were independent of clinicians' theoretical orientation and were associated in predictable ways with personality disorders.
"We've got to determine what we agree on," he said, arguing that Democrats had no coherent message to counter Republicans.
It might be emotionally satisfying to claim that we are at war with a set of ideas, but it does not help us understand the actual threats, allocate resources, or devise a coherent strategy for countering violent extremism.
This study presents a method capable of generating a series of deceptive coherent false targets for countering linear frequency modulation (LFM) radar based on periodic 0-π phase modulation.
