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counterinsurgent

Definitions

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  • noun A person combating an insurgency

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

Etymologies

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counter- +‎ insurgent

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Examples

  • Obama is best described as a foundation-bred counterinsurgent, that is to say an operative in the service of the US financier ruling class whose task it is to wreck and abort any positive outcomes that might be forthcoming from the political ferment which is shaking the globe, and above all from the deep political upsurge which is clearly at hand in this country.

    Wax Banks 2008

  • Even if it wasn't clear enough back when he assembled his "team of rivals" and welcomed Wall Street into his administration, it has been absolutely clear at least since he capitulated to "counterinsurgent" generals and their civilian enablers, and to health care profiteers, that, whatever he may think and feel "inside," Obama is not one of the "good guys."

    Andrew Levine: Obama Winter and How to Combat It Andrew Levine 2010

  • It means preventing insurgents from killing, injuring, and intimidating the local population or preventing them from supporting the government supported by the counterinsurgent.

    Derrick Crowe: Petraeus and Co. Can't Keep Their Spin Straight on the Afghanistan War Derrick Crowe 2010

  • Glenn Beck and much of the mainstream media flattered itself that the One Nation Working Together Rally in Washington D.C. was staged as an answer, no a reaction, to Beck's phony counterinsurgent, badly misnamed Restoring Honor rally that insulted the name, memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: One Nation Working Together Rally Magnificent, Now What? Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010

  • It means preventing insurgents from killing, injuring, and intimidating the local population or preventing them from supporting the government supported by the counterinsurgent.

    Derrick Crowe: Petraeus and Co. Can't Keep Their Spin Straight on the Afghanistan War Derrick Crowe 2010

  • Glenn Beck and much of the mainstream media flattered itself that the One Nation Working Together Rally in Washington D.C. was staged as an answer, no a reaction, to Beck's phony counterinsurgent, badly misnamed Restoring Honor rally that insulted the name, memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: One Nation Working Together Rally Magnificent, Now What? Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010

  • But what is the counterinsurgent to do, given that in an era of total war as waged by radical Islamists, distinguishing between combatant and noncombatant is often impossible?

    Man Versus Afghanistan 2010

  • Glenn Beck and much of the mainstream media flattered itself that the One Nation Working Together Rally in Washington D.C. was staged as an answer, no a reaction, to Beck's phony counterinsurgent, badly misnamed Restoring Honor rally that insulted the name, memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: One Nation Working Together Rally Magnificent, Now What? Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010

  • But what is the counterinsurgent to do, given that in an era of total war as waged by radical Islamists, distinguishing between combatant and noncombatant is often impossible?

    Man Versus Afghanistan 2010

  • Glenn Beck and much of the mainstream media flattered itself that the One Nation Working Together Rally in Washington D.C. was staged as an answer, no a reaction, to Beck's phony counterinsurgent, badly misnamed Restoring Honor rally that insulted the name, memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: One Nation Working Together Rally Magnificent, Now What? Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010

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