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  2. Counterinsurgency - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Clear and hold - Wikipedia

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    The strategy was also implemented by General Creighton Abrams, as part of the "pacification" effort conducted by the Republic of Vietnam and the US Army during the Vietnam War, at which time the strategy became widely known. [7] Clear and hold has also been used as a counter-insurgency tactic in Algeria, Greece, the Philippines, and South Korea ...

  4. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Applying a Counterinsurgency Strategy to the Drug Problem - AOL

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    In Afghanistan, he was a contractor, working on a wide range of issues that included counterinsurgency and counternarcotics work. Going from the apparent success of the surge to the apparently ...

  6. McCormick Magic Diamond - Wikipedia

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    The counterinsurgency force (CF) is the current government [i.e., Host Nation (HN)] or occupying force in the region. These are the forces on the ground that are in direct combat with the IF. There is normally a single force that is the lead in the COIN effort, but other troops, organizations, or countries can provide additional forces to ...

  7. What would it take to win a counterinsurgency war in Gaza? - AOL

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    Another American veteran, Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton, says counterinsurgencies require a political strategy for peace. "We went into Iraq and Afghanistan without a plan for the day after ...

  8. Insurgency - Wikipedia

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    The counterinsurgency strategy can be described as efforts to end the insurgency by a campaign developed in balance along three "pillars": security, political, and economical. "Obviously enough, you cannot command what you do not control.

  9. What would it take to win a counterinsurgency war in Gaza? - AOL

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    Scripps News hears from lawmakers, former Israeli officials and combat experts about the difficulties and costs of fighting an urban war.