counterinsurgency

• The Engineer Strategic Studies Group analysts also concluded that while herbicides had significance in counterinsurgency, their usefulness in conventional warfare would be more limited. —  Operation Ranch Hand - The Air Force and Herbicides in Southeast Asia 1961-1971
• Instead of revamping Pakistan's capacity for counterinsurgency, the army bought $8 billion worth of weapons for use against India-funds that are still unaccounted for, either by the US Congress or the Pakistani government. —  Corrente
• Put simply, counterinsurgency is a form of warfare in which a civilian population is in the center of a tug-of-war between an insurgency and the forces attempting to stop it. —  THE TENSION
• When counterinsurgency is a large part of the mission, see the U.S. doctrine in —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• The United States is already reasonably good at counterinsurgency, as a result of the Iraq war, and the equipment has adapted relatively quickly despite a balky Pentagon bureaucracy ... —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

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