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Recent Examples of counterinsurgency
In 2017, under a government led by Suu Kyi, Min Aung Hlaing oversaw a harsh counterinsurgency campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority that drove hundreds of thousands into Bangladesh.
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ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
The 1991 Gulf War was a stunning victory for the United States military, which has colored its assumptions about what conventional war—as opposed to counterinsurgency, a mission unwanted and disliked—should look like.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
In The Dispensable Nation, Nasr criticized the administration for favoring an Iraq-style counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan and, more widely, military decision-making over diplomacy.
—Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
Ambriz has built a small army of foreign mercenaries, mostly former soldiers from Colombia who have experience in bomb-making and counterinsurgency tactics.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
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ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
The 1991 Gulf War was a stunning victory for the United States military, which has colored its assumptions about what conventional war—as opposed to counterinsurgency, a mission unwanted and disliked—should look like.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
In The Dispensable Nation, Nasr criticized the administration for favoring an Iraq-style counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan and, more widely, military decision-making over diplomacy.
—Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
Ambriz has built a small army of foreign mercenaries, mostly former soldiers from Colombia who have experience in bomb-making and counterinsurgency tactics.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterinsurgency
counterrevolution
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Reynolds also led a counterrevolution against traditional civil rights enforcement and was rewarded when Reagan in 1985 sought to promote him to associate attorney general, the Justice Department’s third-ranking position.—
Ronald Brownstein,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026
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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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“Counterinsurgency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterinsurgency. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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