Example Sentences

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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