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counterinsurgency

/koun-ter-in-sur-juhn-see/US // ˌkaʊn tər ɪnˈsɜr dʒən si //UK // (ˌkaʊntərɪnˈsɜːdʒənsɪ) //

反叛乱,打击叛乱,平叛,平叛运动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural coun·ter·in·sur·gen·cies.

    • : a program or an act of combating guerrilla warfare and subversion.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or designed for combating guerrilla warfare and subversion: counterinsurgency funds.

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Examples

  • Instead, nearly all wars now are civil wars, complex arenas of counterinsurgency and terrorism.

  • The former Princeton University undergraduate and Afghanistan counterinsurgency instructor said, to the mirth of his co-hosts, that he hadn’t washed his hands in a decade.

  • There were some good places to fight a counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan, I would argue, but the Pech Valley surely wasn’t one of them.

  • Allen worked closely with those tribal leaders during the counterinsurgency in Iraq in 2007 and 2008.

  • Salahaddin is an internal province of Iraq, and its force was tailored for counterinsurgency.

  • The searches enraged the local civilian population and derailed the counterinsurgency operations taking place at the time.

  • Washington termed our endless and thankless task counterinsurgency—and Anbaris made good insurgents, very good insurgents.

  • A strike on Syria is not a prelude to a decade-long counterinsurgency campaign with 100,000 U.S. forces on the ground.