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counterinsurgency

[ koun-ter-in-sur-juhn-see ]

noun

, plural coun·ter·in·sur·gen·cies.
  1. a program or an act of combating guerrilla warfare and subversion.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or designed for combating guerrilla warfare and subversion:

    counterinsurgency funds.

counterinsurgency

/ ˌkaʊntərɪnˈsɜːdʒənsɪ /

noun

  1. action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


counterinsurgency

  1. Military power applied in guerrilla warfare in support of the established government.


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  • counter·in·surgent noun adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of counterinsurgency1

First recorded in 1960–65; counter- + insurgency
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Example Sentences

Instead, nearly all wars now are civil wars, complex arenas of counterinsurgency and terrorism.

From Time

The 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.

There were some good places to fight a counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan, I would argue, but the Pech Valley surely wasn’t one of them.

Allen worked closely with those tribal leaders during the counterinsurgency in Iraq in 2007 and 2008.

Salahaddin is an internal province of Iraq, and its force was tailored for counterinsurgency.

The searches enraged the local civilian population and derailed the counterinsurgency operations taking place at the time.

Washington termed our endless and thankless task counterinsurgency—and Anbaris made good insurgents, very good insurgents.

A strike on Syria is not a prelude to a decade-long counterinsurgency campaign with 100,000 U.S. forces on the ground.

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