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The 47 pages that link to Counterinsurgency, each with the reason it gives.

• Guerrilla warfareCompared with: It describes the opponent’s effort to counter guerrilla forces and their support networks.

• Combined armsCompared with: Its mix of military and civilian activity differs from combined arms’ focus on coordinating combat capabilities.

• InsurgencyCompared with: It is the coordinated state response to the movement's armed and political challenge.

• Urban warfareCompared with: Counterinsurgency is a campaign purpose that may include, but is not defined by, urban combat.

• Close air supportRelated: Air support in counterinsurgency can offer immediate force, but civilian harm may undermine broader objectives.

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)Narrower topic: Counterinsurgency doctrine shaped major campaigns but did not produce a durable Afghan state.

• Portuguese Colonial WarRelated: Portuguese forces combined combat operations with efforts to control territory and populations.

• Military doctrineRelated: Its doctrinal approaches affect how forces balance combat with population security.

• South African Border WarNarrower topic: South African operations combined combat with efforts to control populations and territory.

• CounterterrorismCompared with: It addresses rebellion and territorial control, though it can overlap with counterterrorism.

• Guatemalan Civil WarNarrower topic: The government’s counterinsurgency campaign treated many civilian communities as insurgent collaborators.

• Carl von ClausewitzRelated: Its political and military dimensions invite debate over how Clausewitz’s framework applies to irregular war.

• Second Chechen WarNarrower topic: After major fighting subsided, Russian forces relied on raids, intelligence, and local auxiliaries.

• Malayan EmergencyNarrower topic: The Emergency became a widely studied example of a population-centered counterinsurgency campaign.

• Iraqi insurgencyNarrower topic: Coalition forces used population protection, local partnerships, and political measures against insurgent networks.

• RebellionCompared with: Governments answer organized uprisings with strategies intended to isolate rebels and restore authority.

• Battle of AlgiersNarrower topic: The French campaign became a widely studied case of counterinsurgency's methods and costs.

• Military interventionRelated: Intervening forces may try to suppress rebellions while supporting a host government.

• Asymmetric warfareRelated: Asymmetric tactics often force stronger militaries to shift from defeating armies to securing populations and legitimacy.

• De-BaathificationRelated: Debates ask whether exclusion policies undermined efforts to contain the insurgency.

• National Security DoctrineRelated: The doctrine adapted counterinsurgency methods to suppress domestic opposition, including groups without armed campaigns.

• Partisan warfareCompared with: Occupying powers often answer partisan campaigns with counterinsurgency operations.

• Al-ShabaabCompared with: Somali and allied forces use counterinsurgency campaigns to weaken Al-Shabaab’s territorial and military power.

• Chechen–Russian conflictNarrower topic: Russia’s later campaign relied on counterinsurgency as well as conventional force.

• Infantry tacticsRelated: Infantry operations in counterinsurgency often involve protecting civilians and gathering local information.

• The Afghanistan PapersRelated: Officials assessed the war through strategies that combined combat with efforts to win Afghan support.

• JanjaweedNarrower topic: The government used militia violence as part of its campaign against Darfuri insurgents.

• Search and destroyCompared with: Counterinsurgency seeks population security and political control, not simply enemy casualties.

• Urban guerrilla warfareRelated: Governments have adapted policing and intelligence practices in response to clandestine urban groups.

• Body countRelated: Its broader objectives expose the limits of reducing success to enemy casualties.

• Operation BarkhaneNarrower topic: Barkhane’s combat operations formed part of a wider challenge that counterinsurgency theory addresses.

• Dhofar RebellionNarrower topic: Oman’s victory combined combat operations with amnesty, state-building, and development.

• Boko HaramNarrower topic: Nigeria’s response illustrates the strategic and human-rights tensions of counterinsurgency.

• Strategic studiesBroader topic: It tests how force can support political control in irregular conflict.

• Unconventional warfareCompared with: It seeks to suppress the resistance that unconventional warfare supports.

• David PetraeusNarrower topic: The doctrine became closely associated with Petraeus's strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• Hukbalahap RebellionNarrower topic: The government combined security operations with reforms and political outreach against the Huks.

• Irregular warfareRelated: It describes how authorities contest insurgents for security and legitimacy.

• ChouannerieRelated: Republican forces combined military repression with efforts to isolate insurgents from local support.

• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgencyNarrower topic: Turkish campaigns have combined force with security policies and efforts to limit PKK influence.

• Anti-communist mass killingsRelated: Counterinsurgency doctrines often cast broad civilian populations as potential communist collaborators.

• BandenbekämpfungCompared with: The comparison distinguishes a broad strategic concept from Nazi Germany's ideological and criminal practice.

• Clearing the neighbourhoodRelated: Neighbourhood searches can support counterinsurgency, though they are only one part of it.

• Insurgency in Khyber PakhtunkhwaNarrower topic: It provides the broader framework for Pakistan’s campaigns and their limits.

• Insurgency in the MaghrebNarrower topic: Regional armies and foreign partners have relied on counterinsurgency campaigns against militant groups.

• Islamist insurgency in Burkina FasoNarrower topic: Burkina Faso’s campaigns illustrate the risks of treating a locally rooted conflict as solely military.

• Operation MoshtarakNarrower topic: The campaign’s success depended on more than defeating Taliban fighters in combat.