Noun
actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
Source: WordNetI spent the weekend curled up with the Marine Corps and Army counterinsurgency field manual-because that‘s how I roll on the weekends. Rachel Maddow
Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. David Petraeus
You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. John Abizaid
Although Kennedy stressed long-range missile parity with the Soviets, he was also interested in using special forces for counterinsurgency warfare in Third World countries threatened by communist insurgencies. Source: Internet
Before 1988, the Myanmar Navy was small and its role in the many counterinsurgency operations was much less conspicuous than those of the army and air force. Source: Internet
But in 1968, in response to an Air Force search for a counterinsurgency (COIN) aircraft to fight in Southeast Asia, Lindsay moved the Turbo Mustang III and himself over to Piper Aircraft, maker of popular aircraft such as the Piper Cub. Source: Internet