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Recent Examples of counterinsurgency
But establishment counterinsurgency campaigns are not necessarily successful.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Over the past few decades, a counterinsurgency has taken root in America, pushing back against factory farms and overprocessed food: a recognition that the journey from farm to table is usually industrialized and impersonal.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 June 2025
Military personnel and analysts say countries like the U.K. have been focused on fighting counterinsurgency wars, particularly post-9/11, rather than what a conflict with Russia would look like.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
With Iranian and Russian counterinsurgency efforts thrown into disarray by the change of power in Damascus, the U.S. has stepped up strikes against ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria over the past three months.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
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Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Over the past few decades, a counterinsurgency has taken root in America, pushing back against factory farms and overprocessed food: a recognition that the journey from farm to table is usually industrialized and impersonal.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 June 2025
Military personnel and analysts say countries like the U.K. have been focused on fighting counterinsurgency wars, particularly post-9/11, rather than what a conflict with Russia would look like.
—Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
With Iranian and Russian counterinsurgency efforts thrown into disarray by the change of power in Damascus, the U.S. has stepped up strikes against ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria over the past three months.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterinsurgency
counterrevolution
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As part of this textualist counterrevolution, the Court has invented new rules and discarded old ones to second-guess legislative choices.—
Duncan Hosie,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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At the same time, a conservative counterrevolution began reclaiming jeans for themselves.—
Stephen Mihm,
Twin Cities,
22 Aug. 2025
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