counterinsurgency
pronunciation
How to pronounce counterinsurgency in British English:
UK [ˌkaʊntərɪn'sɜ:dʒənsɪ]
How to pronounce counterinsurgency in American English:
US [ˌkaʊntərɪn'sɜdʒənsɪ]
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- Noun:
- actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
Word Origin
- counterinsurgency (n.)
- 1962, from counter- + insurgency.
Example
- 1. Another study we recently completed casts doubt on short-term job creation as a counterinsurgency tactic .
- 2. An expansion of the counterinsurgency would add resentment against the united states as a perceived occupying power to the anger over collateral damage .
- 3. America 's coffer of goodies is big : $ 1.5 billion in aid for each of the next five years and nearly $ 3 billion in counterinsurgency military aid .
- 4. America has increased its demands on the president of late because it needs his help in a counterinsurgency strategy that calls not only for more allied troops but also for a clean-up of the corrupt and ineffective government .
- 5. Soldiers of the 1st squadron , 71st cavalry regiment of the 10th mountain division have fanned out in the vast hinterlands south of kandahar , part of a counterinsurgency strategy aimed at protecting afghan civilians and legitimizing the government of afghanistan in the minds of the rural local populace .
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