Counter-insurgency
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A counter-insurgency or counterinsurgency (COIN) operation involves actions taken by the recognized government of a nation to contain or quell an insurgency taken up against it. In the main, the insurgents seek to destroy or erase the political authority of the defending authorities in a population they seek to control, and the counter-insurgent forces seek to protect that authority and reduce or eliminate the supplanting authority of the insurgents.
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See also
- General
- Civilian casualty ratio
- Collective punishment
- Death squad
- Eizenstat and closing gaps
- False flag
- Gladio
- Guerrilla warfare
- Human rights violations
- Internally displaced people Template:Nb10
- Irregular Warfare
- Kilcullen's Pillars
- Logical line of operation
- Low intensity conflict
- Specific
- U.S. specific
- Police adaptations of model
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