Indian officials have complained in recent years that Mr. Jayewardene had turned to South Africa and Israel to help train his counterinsurgency forces.

For these reasons, it seems unlikely that Nagl and soldiers like him will soon be able to cede their role as the principal counterinsurgency force in Iraq.

General Adnan, as he is known, is the leader of Iraq's most fearsome counterinsurgency force.

This allows a small and agile counterinsurgency force to play a disproportionately large role, and the commandos are precisely that kind of force.

If we add counterinsurgency forces to our troop strength on Abydos, we'll need an officer of sufficient rank to take command.

Advisers have even formed an all-Iraqi counterinsurgency force and trained them in guerrilla tactics like ambushing trucks and camouflaging themselves as trees.

Francophone writers and intellectuals have been frequent targets of assassination by both Islamic militants and shadowy counterinsurgency forces.

The beret was once a distinction of special units - Rangers, airborne troops, counterinsurgency forces.

Even later he served as a paramilitary advisor training indigenous counterinsurgency forces in Central America during the 1980s.

Your writer displayed his disapproval of the brutality of the Iraqi counterinsurgency forces.