counterinsurgency

How To Use counterinsurgency In A Sentence

• Counterinsurgency operations failed to end support for the separatists.
• But these statistics represent neither success nor failure in this complex counterinsurgency. Times, Sunday Times
• We hear much about counterinsurgency, for instance, but almost nothing about insurgency. The Times Literary Supplement
• However, while creating proxies is essential in winning a counterinsurgency, it requires that the proxies are loyal to the center that we claim to support. The Progressives’ Static World
• At last realizing the futility of superior "kinetics" — roughly speaking, putting a lot of metal in the air — American forces belatedly adopted a counterinsurgency strategy. The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam
• Obama's policies are certainly worthy of objurgation, especially his grievous misjudgment at the end of 2009 to cast an additional 30,000 troops into the Afghan abyss in support of a failing counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy. Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama
• Trust among the local population is the most precious commodity in any counterinsurgency. Times, Sunday Times
• The Indian army used classic counterinsurgency tactics, taught to them by the British.
• It was a twin-engine turboprop attack aircraft built for counterinsurgency work.
• But now that he is remaining in the Obama administration, the official said, he is likely to focus as well on the tasks he has envisioned in his public statements and writings, such as refitting the Pentagon to focus on “institutionalizing counterinsurgency skills and the ability to conduct stability and support operations,” rather than focusing just on traditional combat, as he recently wrote in a Foreign Affairs article. Doin Thangs | ATTACKERMAN