counter-insurgency

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counter-insurgency

Those military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions taken to defeat insurgency.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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counter-insurgency

[ˈkaʊntərɪnˈsɜːdʒənsɪ] Nmedidas fpl antiinsurrectivas
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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'Dinoso resorts to warmongering and under the whole-of-nation approach, calls for the continuation of widespread killings, harassment and threats, misinformation against the people, and coercion of local government officials to support their counter-insurgency efforts,' said Salas in a statement sent through email.
These plots were in their final stages of planning before crucial intelligence inputs were received by the Indian security establishment that resulted in the quick mobilization of troops for counter-insurgency operations.
The two senior officers along with Lieutenant AJ Danjibrin of 211 Demonstration Battalion Bauchi who was promoted a captain were rewarded for their extraordinary feats, courage, exemplary leadership, loyalty, uncommon commitment and valour in the counter-insurgency operation in the North Eastern part of the country.
But he said that despite the deployment for election duties, the counter-insurgency operations, particularly against the communist rebels and other threat groups, will continue.
Army and other security forces routinely carry out counter-insurgency operations in the district after earlier clearing the area from militant presence.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi lauded the country's counter-terrorism efforts and said Pakistan has conducted the largest counter-insurgency operation while addressing an event at the Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday.
His topics include cinema's encounter with colonial insurgencies, Italian neorealism and beyond,the mercenary subgenre and counter-insurgency, and Israel and reframing siege warfare into counter-terrorism.
Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria: The Military and Operations against Boko Haram, 2011-2017.
It speaks of the injustice of the thousands of victims of rights violations who were killed and disappeared under Arroyo's bloody counter-insurgency campaign Oplan Bantay Laya,' Hustisya said.
Farther to the north, more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to neighbouring Bangladesh last year in the wake of a Burma Army counter-insurgency campaign targeting Rohingya militants who staged deadly attacks on security posts in August.
He served as a senior instructor at the New Zealand Army Infantry School for two years where he was tasked with educating army officers from New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries on weaponry, tactical studies and counter-insurgency warfare.
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