counterinsurgency

noun coun·ter·in·sur·gen·cy \ ˌkau̇n-tər-in-ˈsər-jən(t)-sē \

|Updated on: 24 Jul 2018

Examples: counterinsurgency in a Sentence

Definition of counterinsurgency

: organized military activity designed to combat insurgency

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counterinsurgent

play \ˌkau̇n-tər-in-ˈsər-jənt\ noun

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Examples of counterinsurgency in a Sentence

The military has launched a counterinsurgency.

Recent Examples of counterinsurgency from the Web

Avoiding such conversations was untenable with service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, who were enmeshed in messy counterinsurgency campaigns that often involved close-range killing and noncombatants.

— New York Times, "The Wounds of the Drone Warrior," 13 June 2018
Four militants and a police official with the counterinsurgency force were killed in the fighting, said Col.

— aijaz hussain, The Christian Science Monitor, "India takes control of Kashmir territory," 25 June 2018
Officially called the Army Special Forces, the unit, known by the caps the soldiers wore, was composed of soldiers trained in counterinsurgency and guerrilla warfare techniques.

— daniel e. slotnik, New York Times, "Maj. Gen. Michael Healy, Paragon Among Green Berets, Dies at 91," 27 Apr. 2018
Myanmar security forces are accused of rape, killing and torture of minority Rohingya, 700,000 of whom have fled to Bangladesh following counterinsurgency operations in Rakhine state.

— Washington Post, "Kirin investigates if donations went to Myanmar’s forces," 15 June 2018
Soon, Rathika and other patients left again when a final counterinsurgency push ordered the evacuation of Tamils, herding even the injured into a no-fire zone which was later shelled.

— Longreads, "A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers," 22 May 2018
About 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s western Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh in the past seven months to escape a brutal counterinsurgency campaign by Myanmar’s army.

— Washington Post, "Indonesian fishermen rescue Rohingya in seas off Aceh," 20 Apr. 2018
About 700,000 have fled western Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape a brutal counterinsurgency campaign by Myanmar's army.

— Fox News, "Expert doesn't expect new Rohingya boat people exodus," 2 Apr. 2018
The reporters were covering a brutal counterinsurgency operation in Myanmar's Rakhine state that drove 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.

— Fox News, "Myanmar judge won't declare whistleblower a hostile witness," 2 May 2018

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