insurgency, term historically restricted to rebellious acts that did not reach the proportions of an organized revolution. It has subsequently been applied to any such armed uprising, typically guerrilla in character, against the recognized government of a state or country. In traditional international law, insurgency was not recognized as belligerency, and insurgents lacked the …

Research in Outdoor Education. Research in Outdoor Education is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal seeking to support and further outdoor education and its goals, including personal growth and moral development, team building and cooperation, outdoor knowledge...

A police car (also called a police cruiser, police interceptor, patrol car, area car, cop car, prowl car, squad car, radio car, or radio motor patrol) is a ground vehicle used by police and law enforcement for transportation during patrols and responses to calls for service.A type of emergency vehicle, police cars are used by police officers to patrol a beat, quickly reach …

An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion against authority waged by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare from primarily rural base areas. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irregular forces face a large, well-equipped, regular military force state adversary. Due to this asymmetry, insurgents avoid large-scale direct …

Result: Invasion and occupation of Iraq; Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government; Execution of Saddam Hussein in 2006; Recognition of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region; Emergence of significant insurgency, rise and fall of al-Qaeda in Iraq; January 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election and formation of Shia-led government; Civil war between 2006 and 2008; Withdrawal of US …

India possesses nuclear weapons and previously developed chemical weapons.Although India has not released any official statements about the size of its nuclear arsenal, recent estimates suggest that India has 160 nuclear weapons and has produced enough weapons-grade plutonium for up to 200 nuclear weapons. In 1999, India was estimated to have 800 kilograms (1,800 lb) …

A clandestine cell system is a method for organizing a group of people (such as resistance fighters, sleeper agents, mobsters, or terrorists) such that such people can more effectively resist penetration by an opposing organization (such as law enforcement or military units).. In a cell structure, each of the small groups of people in the cell know the identities of the people only in …

U.S. Department of Defense UW mission. UW was the first mission assigned to United States Army Special Forces when they were formed in 1952; they now have additional missions, including foreign internal defense (FID). In the United States, "special forces" refers specifically to the United States Army Special Forces (SF), as opposed to the usage in most other countries, …

Ongoing. Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen (since 1998):. Drone strikes being conducted by U.S. Al-Qaeda Emirate in Yemen is declared on 31 March 2011; Insurgency escalates into a full-scale civil war by 2014; War in Afghanistan (2001–2021): . American-led intervention in Afghanistan

Specific types of responses include: Targeted laws, criminal procedures, deportations, and enhanced police powers; ... Jones and Libicki concluded that military force may be necessary to deal with large insurgencies but are only occasionally decisive, because the military is too often seen as a bigger threat to civilians than the terrorists.