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Recent Examples of counterinsurgency
Baumgartner brings to the role a wealth of legislative and life experience, especially regarding foreign policy and counterinsurgency operations.
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Brad Pearce, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
In 1948, for example, the Truman administration threatened to withdraw Marshall Plan aid from the Netherlands unless the Dutch abandoned their bloody counterinsurgency war against the Indonesian nationalist movement.
—Nicholas Mulder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
Kennedy used foreign aid to wage a bloody counterinsurgency in South Vietnam; Carter put human rights at the center of his policy and then toasted the repressive shah of Iran; Bush, claiming to be spreading democracy to the Middle East, seriously damaged America’s global legitimacy.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
Spain was waging such a ruthless counterinsurgency in Cuba and Puerto Rico that the United States invoked human rights as one of the justifications for going in.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
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Brad Pearce, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
In 1948, for example, the Truman administration threatened to withdraw Marshall Plan aid from the Netherlands unless the Dutch abandoned their bloody counterinsurgency war against the Indonesian nationalist movement.
—Nicholas Mulder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
Kennedy used foreign aid to wage a bloody counterinsurgency in South Vietnam; Carter put human rights at the center of his policy and then toasted the repressive shah of Iran; Bush, claiming to be spreading democracy to the Middle East, seriously damaged America’s global legitimacy.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
Spain was waging such a ruthless counterinsurgency in Cuba and Puerto Rico that the United States invoked human rights as one of the justifications for going in.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterinsurgency
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This time around, some of the most influential figures in Trump’s court have commitments to the anti-liberal counterrevolution: Vice President J. D. Vance, Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., and Tucker Carlson, to name a few.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
19 Mar. 2025
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These choices take command of the struggle against any possible counterrevolution.—
Armond White,
National Review,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Counterinsurgency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterinsurgency. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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