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com·bat·ing ter·ror·ism

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  1. combating terrorism

    Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, businesses, and intelligence agencies use to combat or eliminate terrorism. Counterterrorism strategies are a government's motivation to use the instruments of national power to defeat terrorists, the organizations they maintain, and the networks they contain.If definitions of terrorism are part of a broader insurgency, counterterrorism may employ counterinsurgency measures. The United States Armed Forces uses the term foreign internal defense for programs that support other countries' attempts to suppress insurgency, lawlessness, or subversion, or to reduce the conditions under which threats to national security may develop.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. combating terrorism

    Actions, including antiterrorism and counterterrorism, taken to oppose terrorism throughout the entire threat spectrum. Also called CbT. See also antiterrorism; counterterrorism.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of combating terrorism in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of combating terrorism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of combating terrorism in a Sentence

  1. President Vladimir Putin:

    It is true that the two countries have different views on the ways to resolve the crisis in Syria. But the important thing is ... we both stand for settling the situation in the region and effectively combating terrorism, with this in mind, the existing differences should not hamper our bilateral relations.

  2. Jan Albrecht:

    There is no proof that the mass collection and storage of air passenger data helps in combating terrorism.

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