counterinsurgency
a program or an act of combating guerrilla warfare and subversion.
of, relating to, or designed for combating guerrilla warfare and subversion: counterinsurgency funds.
Origin of counterinsurgency
1Other words from counterinsurgency
- coun·ter·in·sur·gent, noun, adjective
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How to use counterinsurgency in a sentence
Instead, nearly all wars now are civil wars, complex arenas of counterinsurgency and terrorism.
'Major American Failure.’ A Political Scientist on Why the U.S. Lost in Afghanistan | Philip Elliott | August 18, 2021 | TimeThe former Princeton University undergraduate and Afghanistan counterinsurgency instructor said, to the mirth of his co-hosts, that he hadn’t washed his hands in a decade.
Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think - Issue 100: Outsiders | Brian Gallagher & Kevin Berger | May 26, 2021 | NautilusThere were some good places to fight a counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan, I would argue, but the Pech Valley surely wasn’t one of them.
American troops fought hard in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley. But why? | Andrew Exum | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostAllen worked closely with those tribal leaders during the counterinsurgency in Iraq in 2007 and 2008.
Can Obama Keep His Generals in Check in the War Against ISIS? | Eli Lake, Josh Rogin | September 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSalahaddin is an internal province of Iraq, and its force was tailored for counterinsurgency.
The Paper Tiger of the Tigris: How ISIS Took Tikrit Without a Fight | Andrew Slater | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The searches enraged the local civilian population and derailed the counterinsurgency operations taking place at the time.
We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night | Nathan Bradley Bethea | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWashington termed our endless and thankless task counterinsurgency—and Anbaris made good insurgents, very good insurgents.
Their Fight…But Our Legacy: The New Battle for Fallujah | John Kael Weston | January 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA strike on Syria is not a prelude to a decade-long counterinsurgency campaign with 100,000 U.S. forces on the ground.
Why We Must Intervene in Syria, a Veteran Makes the Case | Mark R. Jacobson | September 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for counterinsurgency
/ (ˌkaʊntərɪnˈsɜːdʒənsɪ) /
action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
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Cultural definitions for counterinsurgency
Military power applied in guerrilla warfare in support of the established government.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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