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:
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
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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
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…control and military forces. Insurgency frequently hinges on control of and collaboration with local populations. An insurgency can be fought via counter-insurgency warfare, as well as other political, economic and social actions of various kinds. Due to the blending of insurgents with the civilian population…
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