COIN.. Read the PDF below it lays out the tactics by these insurgents.

[link to 2009-2017.state.gov (secure)]


Counter insurgency guide 2009 U.S. Gov

= COIN= A counter-insurgency or counterinsurgency (COIN) is defined by the United States Department of State as "comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to simultaneously defeat and contain insurgency and address its root causes"


* Insurgency can be defined as ‘the organized use of subversion and violence to
seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region.’


** Provocation: Insurgents often commit acts (such as atrocities) that are intended to prompt opponents to react irrationally,


• Intimidation: Insurgents intimidate individual members of the government (especially police and local government officials) to dissuade them from taking active measures

• Protraction: Insurgents seek to prolong the conflict in order to exhaust opponents,

• Exhaustion: Insurgents conduct activities such as ambushes, bombings, attacks on government facilities, economic assets and transport infrastructure
that are designed to compel security forces to undertake numerous onerous, high-cost defensive activities that expend scarce resources without significantly advancing the counterinsurgents’ strategy.

^ The above should be called their war of attrition against us.

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