All counterinsurgency synonyms

noun counterinsurgency

• grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
• competition — Competition is a situation in which two or more people or groups are trying to get something which not everyone can have.
• campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
• retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• vengeance — infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to vengeance?
• reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
• combat — Combat is fighting that takes place in a war.
• clash — When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other.
• discord — lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
• fighting — fit to fight: a boxer who's no longer in fighting shape.
• strife — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
• struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
• battle — A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
• rivalry — the action, position, or relation of a rival or rivals; competition: rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
• war — a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
• contest — A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
• arms — weapons collectively
• strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
• hostilities — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
• tug-of-war — an athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other over a line.
• striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
• counterblow — a retaliatory blow
• return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
• malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
• sortie — a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
• vengefulness — desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
• spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
• requital — the act of requiting.
• repayment — to pay back or refund, as money.
• vindictiveness — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
• rancor — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• animus — If a person has an animus against someone, they have a strong feeling of dislike for them, even when there is no good reason for it.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
• avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
• rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
• ill will — hostile feeling; malevolence; enmity: to harbor ill will against someone.
• measure for measure — a comedy (1604) by Shakespeare.
• tit for tat — with an equivalent given in retaliation, as a blow for a blow, repartee, etc.: He answered their insults tit for tat.
• implacability — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.