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Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency [1]) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". [2] The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries" [3] and can be considered war by a state against a non-state adversary. [4]
Clear and hold is a counter-insurgency strategy in which military personnel clear an area of guerrillas or other insurgents, and then keep the area clear of insurgents while winning the support of the populace for the government and its policies.
Civilian populace – "Gain, preserve, and strengthen civilian support for the HN government and its counterinsurgency programs." Too strong a military emphasis, regarding actions of either side, can be frightening. Military forces – Strengthen military support, with emphasis on building and maintaining the morale of the HN forces.
A Washington state congressional candidate takes lessons from Iraq.
Thompson was a veteran of the Malayan counter-insurgency effort and a counter-insurgency advisor to the Diem government. [1] Thompson shared his revised system of resettlement and population security, a system he had proposed to Diem that would eventually become the Strategic Hamlet Program.
The US Army Foreign Intelligence Assistance Program, was a 1960s program. One part was "Project X", a military effort to create intelligence field manuals drawn from counterinsurgency experience in Vietnam , specifically from the CIA's Phoenix program in South Vietnam, an assassination program designed to identify and "neutralize" the ...
The terrain is tough and the weather is harsh as the soldiers go through counterinsurgency drills and tactical exercises following months of deadly rebel attacks in the disputed region ...
Counter-insurgency aircraft (23 P) C. Counterintelligence ... Commander's Emergency Response Program; Counter-insurgency aircraft; Counter-Insurgency and Jungle ...