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Recent Examples of counterinsurgency
Because civil wars and counterinsurgency operations are fought in and among populations, civilians bear the brunt of the harm from these wars, not only by being caught up in deliberate sectarian violence or crossfire but also because they are forced to flee their homes.
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Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
After that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
Trump’s first term thus saw sustained, sometimes humiliating pressure on allies to raise defense spending, along with efforts to pivot the Pentagon away from counterterrorism and counterinsurgency and toward great-power threats.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Baumgartner brings to the role a wealth of legislative and life experience, especially regarding foreign policy and counterinsurgency operations.
—Brad Pearce, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
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Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
After that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
Trump’s first term thus saw sustained, sometimes humiliating pressure on allies to raise defense spending, along with efforts to pivot the Pentagon away from counterterrorism and counterinsurgency and toward great-power threats.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Baumgartner brings to the role a wealth of legislative and life experience, especially regarding foreign policy and counterinsurgency operations.
—Brad Pearce, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterinsurgency
counterrevolution
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The revolution—and counterrevolutions across Europe—would speed the formation of nation-states in the nineteenth century.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Elie’s masterful survey is a group portrait of artists and their fellow travelers who participated during a bloody crossroads in American life, when Ronald Reagan’s ascension to the White House in 1980 collapsed the walls between church and state, sparking a counterrevolution across the arts.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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