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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]
Separation of insurgents – A counterinsurgency strategy should first seek to separate the enemy from the population, then deny the enemy reentry, and finally execute long enough to deny the insurgent access; Shape, Clear, Hold, Build – The counterinsurgency theory that states the process of winning an insurgency is shape, clear, hold, build
The Rohingya were the targets of a brutal counterinsurgency campaign incorporating rape and murder that saw an estimated 740,000 flee to neighboring Bangladesh as their villages were burned down ...
Campaigns to Suppress Bandits (14 P) Counterterrorist operations (2 C) P. Punitive expeditions (6 C, 17 P) ... 2015 Indian counter-insurgency operation in Myanmar
But a counterinsurgency paradigm is appropriate, whether you’re talking about cocaine in Colombia and Bolivia or the precursors to fentanyl that come from China and feed into the drug gangs that ...
"When you're fighting a counterinsurgency, by definition, it is messy and the insurgents want it to be messy, like they want you to kill civilians," Ackerman said. "They set up scenarios so you ...
Condor (1970s) — — A campaign run by then South American Military Dictatorships' intelligence services with United States' support, which goal was extrajudicial and secretly, find, capture and eliminate political dissidents who, had succeeded to escape political repression in their homelands but could be found in any of these other countries.
The new counter-insurgency policy was instituted as Plan Lazo in 1962 and called for both military operations and civic action programs in violent areas. Following Yarborough's recommendations, the Colombian military recruited civilians into paramilitary "civil defense" groups which worked alongside the military in its counter-insurgency ...