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    insurgency


    1. Lincoln feared an insurgency more than anything else, and he


    2. likely for the South to consider a long and drawn-out insurgency that would offer the best chance for independence, however long


    3. insurgency would have begun


    4. country together and avoiding a long-lasting insurgency that


    5. In fact everything to do with the training of light infantry in a counter insurgency role was well-catered for


    6. They fought in those two countries (in an insurgency role) and at the same time tried to infiltrate South Africa proper to cause internal unrest and urban terrorism


    7. Their military successes were few and far between and despite what is claimed today, they never successfully established military camps inside South Africa from which they operated as in a classic insurgency war


    8. * The Nationalists were not sure how to deal with the armed insurgency which was happening in Rhodesia, Namibia and inside South Africa


    9. To call the Army is always bad for it shows that the Police lost control and therefore the liberals love to describe insurgency wars as a police action


    10. It met South Africa's problems head on, and contained the crime and insurgency for decades

    11. The war or insurgency never had much public support being tribal based and more of an insurrection than anything else


    12. Bizarrely enough the words "Mau Mau" was never used much by the Kikuya tribesmen who lead the insurrection and it came apparently from the Europeans who referred the insurgency as such between themselves


    13. Indeed uniquely to the Mau Mau insurgency communism was not a factor at any stage


    14. There is not a war or insurgency in history where human rights abuses do not occur from both sides


    15. They would invite someone to take the oath to joining their insurgency and if refused slowly strangled


    16. There were in essence three different combat groups during the war for this was much more than a mere insurgency


    17. It gave rise to their first-rate (some say infamous) Counter Insurgency Units (SAP COIN) which would greatly trouble terrorists for the next twenty odd years


    18. There was never genuine insurgency type terrorism in South Africa except for a few landmines next to Zimbabwe in 1985 which killed innocent civilians


    19. There was no insurgency as such because ANC learned from their defeats in Rhodesia and Angola that it would be suicide to establish bases in the rural area


    20. Did that cause a general rise of right wing insurgency in America? Of course not! It was an utter failure and soon forgotten

    21. You don't have any insurgency problems at home and there is no indication that you ever will


    22. Despite most Anglo-Americans living in Texas less than a year, they declared the land to be theirs and rose up in an insurgency


    23. The noughties were creating a sense of déjà vu, bringing back memories of the late 60’s and early 70’s war in Vietnam, and communist insurgency in Malaya


    24. The Court’s insurgency had become a judicial war of attrition against democratic principles of the Constitution, and the Court was winning


    25. Each feels a profound righteousness, and a passion for power that jusstifies any means that might be available to advance its insurgency


    26. “If the current situation persists, we will continue fighting one form of Iraqi insurgency after another – with too little legitimacy, too little will and too few resources


    27. The town, centre for the ill-fated groundnut scheme which then became the school for European children, had again metamorphosed into the main base camp for insurgency operations against the white-ruled regimes in Southern Africa


    28. ‘’Because I intend to send you to Indochina for three or four weeks as part of a military delegation that will study the communist insurgency the French are facing there, in order to find possible solutions to that conflict and also to find out what assistance we can give to the French in that fight


    29. You are already quite infamous in the Philippines for the way you handled the communist Hukbalahap insurgency, torturing and assassinating suspected Hukbalahap members


    30. Ho sent pleas for assistance to President Truman, but those pleas were ignored and Ho was forced into the mountains where he began an insurgency

    31. Chico Xol and Cu Tut were doing their monthly civil patrol duty in the thatched-roof guardhouse on the Coban road – their country’s first line of defense against the growing guerrilla insurgency


    32. I added to the bottom that they ought to send a message to Calragen Eligarda of Evenalehn, hoping to stop certain insurgency


    33. Mohammad is the Ender of the world with his spirit continuing blasphemes, his followers make insurgency wars with the Christians and Jews


    34. Para-military groups, insurgency groups, Left-Wing groups, the entire National Government: infested with drug money, assassination, violence, killing, greed, treachery, bribery, and mass corruption


    35. Along the way, they began encountering the sort of fanatical insurgency that would characterize the war after Baghdad fell


    36. The Marines were going into Nasiriya every night, trying to clear the place out as the insurgency stoked up


    37. But the insurgency grew tremendously that same year


    38. Civilians who were not connected with the insurgency were killed, or fled the city


    39. It wasn’t quite the hotbed of the insurgency that Fallujah had been, but it wasn’t San Diego, either


    40. Along the way, they began encountering the sort of fanatical insurgency that would characterize the war after Baghdad fell

    41. The Marines were going into Nasiriya every night, trying to clear the place out as the insurgency stoked up


    42. But the insurgency grew tremendously that same year


    43. Civilians who were not connected with the insurgency were killed, or fled the city


    44. It wasn’t quite the hotbed of the insurgency that Fallujah had been, but it wasn’t San Diego, either


    45. The Japanese found themselves getting bogged down fighting an insurgency they just couldn’t defeat


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    Synonyms for "insurgency"

    insurgence insurgency attack counteraction

    "insurgency" definitions

    an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict