Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun counterinsurgency

1 sense of counterinsurgency

Sense 1
pacification, counterinsurgency -- (actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency)
       => conflict, struggle, battle -- (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs")