counterinsurgency
Fighting guerrilla warfare
Counterinsurgency is military and political action taken to defeat an insurgency—an organized rebellion against an established government.
The strategy typically combines combat operations with efforts to win civilian support: building infrastructure, providing services, and undermining rebel influence.
The counterinsurgency campaign focused on securing villages rather than chasing guerrillas.
Often shortened to COIN in military contexts.
Anti-rebel warfare doctrine
- tacticsMethods to achieve goals
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- special forcesElite unconventional warfare troops
intelligence · surveillance · reconnaissance · patrol · raid · ambush · psyops · doctrine
Emotional and intellectual commitment
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- peacebuildingEstablishing lasting harmony post-conflict
legitimacy · civil affairs · reintegration · infrastructure · diplomacy · negotiation · aid · civil society
Irregular armed fighter
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- militantsAggressive advocates for causes
rebels · separatists · partisans · revolution · mutiny · revolt · subversion · radicals
COIN
Anti-rebel warfare doctrine
special forces · intelligence · surveillance · reconnaissance · patrol · raid · ambush · psyops · doctrine · irregular warfare
hearts and minds
Emotional and intellectual commitment
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
- developmentProgress toward maturity
peacebuilding · legitimacy · civil affairs · reintegration · infrastructure · diplomacy · negotiation · aid · civil society · nation-building
guerrilla
Irregular armed fighter
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
militants · rebels · separatists · partisans · revolution · mutiny · revolt · subversion · radicals · extremists
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- military historybattles, soldiers, campaigns, officers, battlefields
- military sciencestrategy, tactics, warfare, military theory, military operations
- military studiesmilitary doctrine, military history, military leadership, military law, strategy
- Green BeretsGreen Berets, Fort Bragg, unconventional warfare, beret, operators
- jungle warfareguerrilla tactics, dense foliage, jungle boots, machete, infiltration
counterinsurgencyinsurgency
Armed uprising against authority
rebellion · insurrection · guerrilla warfare · uprising · revolution
counterinsurgencyinsurgency
Armed uprising against authority
revolutionary movement · resistance movement · popular uprising · regime change · destabilization
counterinsurgencyconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
traditional warfare · conventional war · mechanized warfare · frontal assault · trench warfare
surge, insurgent, resurgence, resurgent, insurgency, insurgence, insurgents