counterinsurgent
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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
Indeed, Bush's visit comes a day in advance of what could be a more significant event: a Baghdad-wide counterinsurgent crackdown involving tens of thousands of Iraqi troops.
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
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