Counterinsurgency
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Counterinsurgency is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activ
U.S. Marines and ANA soldiers on patrol during counterinsurgency operations in Marjah, Afghanistan, February 2010
Police question a civilian during the Malayan Emergency. Counterinsurgency involves action from both military and police authorities.
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German soldiers relax after destroying a village in Epirus, Greece (1942 or 1943).[citation needed]
A strategic hamlet in South Vietnam c.1964
Insurgency
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An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature:
Counterinsurgency
…or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries" and can be considered war by a state against a non-state adversary. Insurgency and counterinsurgency campaigns have been waged since ancient history. Western thought on fighting 'small wars' gained interest during initial periods…
A Home Army insurgent next to a propaganda poster during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
The so-called kuruc were armed anti-Habsburg rebels in Royal Hungary between 1671 and 1711.
Nigerian Army counterinsurgency forces demonstrating tactics used against Boko Haram, 2016
Gari Melchers War Highsmith