counterinsurgency

Allen worked closely with those tribal leaders during the counterinsurgency in Iraq in 2007 and 2008.

Salahaddin is an internal province of Iraq, and its force was tailored for counterinsurgency.

The searches enraged the local civilian population and derailed the counterinsurgency operations taking place at the time.

Washington termed our endless and thankless task counterinsurgency—and Anbaris made good insurgents, very good insurgents.

A strike on Syria is not a prelude to a decade-long counterinsurgency campaign with 100,000 U.S. forces on the ground.