FID is defined as "Participation by civilian and military agencies of a government in any of the action programs taken by another government or other designated organization to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency."
Counterinsurgency is defined as “military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.”
(both taken from JP 1-02 DoD Dictionary of Military and associated terms)
This suggests to me that external assistance cannot be doctrinally described as COIN... (it's a stretch I know...)
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