counterguerrilla

noun

variants also counterguerilla
Definition of counterguerrillanext
as in guerrilla

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  1. guerrilla
  2. irregular
  3. soldier
  4. warrior
  5. paramilitary
  6. trooper
  7. serviceman
  8. foot soldier
Noun
  • Another item removed was a campaign poster of Carlos Pizarro, a former leader of the M-19, a guerrilla movement that signed a peace agreement with the government in March 1989, in which its leaders were pardoned for kidnappings and other war crimes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The indictment also describes the detention of a Venezuelan military officer in 2013 who was transported to a camp controlled by Colombia’s FARC guerrilla organization.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of guerrilla
Noun
  • Setting off in pursuit was José María Zuloaga, a taciturn lieutenant colonel in the Mexican army supported by a band of irregulars.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Some galaxies, known as irregulars, don't fit neatly into either mold.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Definition of irregular
Noun
  • The murder of two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank is the jumping-off point for a large-scale invasion of the Palestinian territory, a move that would further test the nation’s fraying relationship with the United States.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In April, a US Army soldier was arrested and charged with using confidential information to make $410,000 in Polymarket bets on the timing of the military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of soldier
Noun
  • The research team intends to test other pits containing terracotta warriors and build a larger reference set of prints from ancient Chinese populations.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, numerous instructors have found ways to use a chair for adapted versions of a surprising number of traditional yoga movements, like lunging warrior poses and standing-to-lying sun salutations.
    — Jennifer Heimlich, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of warrior
Noun
  • The State Department has accused both Burhan’s Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, of failing to make serious commitments to an immediate truce.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The volunteers would be an additional layer of security to the powerful Revolutionary Guard paramilitary and its all-volunteer arm, the Basij.
    — Nasser Karimi, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of paramilitary
Noun
  • Utah Highway Patrol troopers were called to the spot of the three-car crash, where traffic was slowing due to ongoing construction, the court documents said.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The investigating trooper reported the weather was clear and the road dry at the time of the crash.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of trooper
Noun
  • The video showed the man being accompanied by two FSB servicemen ​onto a plane, then in a cage in a Moscow court, which ordered him detained for nearly two months.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Kelly gave the example that six years ago NIPSCO employed 230 linemen and now there are approximately 180, a 22% decrease, and gas servicemen are down from the 180 the company budgeted for just a few years ago to 143.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of serviceman
Noun
  • Feldstein was their foot soldier, working to get news stories written and noticed.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • But the current Sinaloa turf war—la narcopandemia, locals call it—has created new categories of victims, far from the foot soldiers and hit men targeted in previous spasms of violence.
    — Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of foot soldier
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