counterinsurgency
noun
coun·ter·in·sur·gen·cy
ˌkau̇n-tər-in-ˈsər-jən(t)-sē 
: organized military activity designed to combat insurgency
Examples of counterinsurgency in a Sentence
The military has launched a counterinsurgency.
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The surge would be guided by a military doctrine known as counterinsurgency theory, or COIN, which was held to have saved the day in Iraq.
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Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Was Katz suggesting that there was a future in which parts of the capital cities of Britain and Europe—Tower Hamlets and Newham, Belleville and Clichy, certainly Neukölln—would require counterinsurgency operations and, just to be safe, aerial bombing?
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Was Katz suggesting that there was a future in which parts of the capital cities of Britain and Europe—Tower Hamlets and Newham, Belleville and Clichy, certainly Neukölln—would require counterinsurgency operations and, just to be safe, aerial bombing?
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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“Counterinsurgency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counterinsurgency. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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