counterinsurgent

American  

[kaun-ter-in-sur-juhnt] / ˈkaʊn tər ɪnˈsɜr dʒənt /

noun

• counterinsurgents
  plural

1. a person involved in the suppression of insurgents.

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adjective

1. of or relating to counterinsurgency.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• counterinsurgency
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• counterinsurgents
  plural

Example Sentences

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counterinsurgent counterinsurgents

Shanahan appears less inclined to fight for robust counterinsurgent deployments and has taken a business-minded approach to the military that dovetails with the president’s.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2019

Variously dubbed the Anbar tribes, the Awakening, or the Sons of Iraq, this anti-Al Qaeda tribal program rapidly became a battle-tested counterinsurgent mindset that realigned the goal posts of the war.

From Newsweek ● Mar. 20, 2013

It … serves to undermine the strength and the authority of the counterinsurgent.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2012

Kerrey relished the rigorous training and jumped again when he was selected for the secret counterinsurgent team called SEALs.

From Time Magazine Archive

My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

To succeed, however, America’s counterinsurgents must also convince the majority of the population of the legitimacy of the established order.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2018

“Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation, and the historical lesson that ‘trailing’ an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure,” he writes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2013

If this was the only problem the counterinsurgents were having, it could be managed.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2012