counterinsurgent
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
counterinsurgent (plural counterinsurgents)
- A person combating an insurgency.
- 2007 August 19, Buddhika Jayamaha, Wesley D. Smith, Jeremy Roebuck, Omar Mora, Edward Sandmeier, Yance T. Gray, Jeremy A. Murphy, “The War as We Saw It”, in New York Times[1]:
- Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population.