They somewhat represent Al-Qaeda and their fellow groups. During the insurgents reign in the city, this individual was their puppet head in the local government. A Counterinsurgency Leadership Seminar featuring Colonel Stephen Davis (USMC), Colonel David Maxwell, US Army, and Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling. The Insurgent faction is a OPFOR, insurgent faction found only on Insurgency maps. The nature of insurgencies is an ambiguous concept. Earlier in the conflict, most battles had. This Second Battle of Fallujah is notable for being the first major battle of the Iraq War that was fought solely against the Iraqi insurgents. To retake Haditha, the Marine Corps sent in some of its most. An insurgency can be fought via counter-insurgency warfare, and may also be opposed by measures to protect the population, and by political and economic actions of various kinds aimed at undermining the insurgents' claims against the incumbent regime. Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany joined in celebrating the Marine Corps' 246th birthday with a cake cutting and uniform pageant ceremony, Nov. The Second Battle of Fallujah, alternatively code-named Operation Phantom Fury and Operation Al-Fajr, was one of the bloodiest battles in the entire Iraq War. JEFFREY DINSMORE, Intelligence Officer, 3/1 USMC, 05-06: Insurgent traffic of foreign. An insurgency is an armed rebellion against a constituted authority (for example, an authority recognized as such by the United Nations ) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognized as belligerents. Ali Baba: Generic Iraqi term for bad guy, be it insurgent or criminal.