guerrilla warfare
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guerrilla warfare gəˈrilə ˈwôrˌfer military and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held or hostile territory by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces.
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URBAN GUERRILLA WARFARE
Magazine article from: Special Warfare; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...book, Urban Guerrilla Warfare, by Anthony...operating against guerrillas in an urban...studying urban guerrilla warfare is stressed...principles of guerrilla warfare defined by...teachings, guerrillas need to operate...
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Beyond terrorism to guerrilla warfare.(Commentary)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 9/11/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the accepted rules of warfare .... Mass uprisings...revolutionary methods, guerrilla bands everywhere...Peru's Shining Path guerrillas, will always define...reason for calling it "guerrilla warfare" and not terrorism...terrorists. They are guerrillas who have been assigned...
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On Guerrillas: Warfare in Iraq
Magazine article from: Army; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...linked up with guerrillas and are providing...terrorist and guerrilla forces is an...of guerrilla warfare strategy. Unfortunately...and tactics of guerrillas and their modus...unconventional warfare. Iraq remains...tailor-made for guerrilla tactics, techniques...Iraq. However, ...
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Guerrilla warfare, democracy, and the fate of the confederacy.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...conscription: guerrilla warfare. Indeed, guerrilla warfare sparked sharp policy...Confederacy that guerrillas would be an important...they believed that guerrillas could help win...way. They saw guerrilla warfare as a freewheeling...
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21st-Century Relevance of Mao's Theory on Popular Support in Guerrilla Warfare
Magazine article from: Special Warfare; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...warfare. Guerrilla warfare is not new; its well...very different.1 Guerrilla warfare is a technique available...armed opponent. Guerrillas have the initiative...counterinsurgency forces are true guerrillas. The distinction is that the guerrilla is a politically ...
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Guerrilla warfare training needed to tackle Maoists: expert
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 12/17/2007; 669 words
; ...Chhattisgarh need to be trained in guerrilla warfare in order to tackle the armed rebels...are of cops lacking in guerrilla warfare techniques, said B.K. Ponwar...the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College (CTJWC), Kanker...
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America and Guerrilla Warfare
Magazine article from: Arkansas Historical Quarterly; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; America and Guerrilla Warfare. By Anthony James Joes...limited and regional wars, guerrilla insurgencies are likely to...two previous books about guerrillas, prepares us for that uncertain...historical experience in irregular warfare. Joes presents nine "case...American involvement with ...
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Ending the cycle of guerrilla warfare The Iraqi resistance
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...At its essence, guerrilla warfare is how the weak make war against...Vietnam experience, guerrilla warfare can work. But Vietnam is...the pedigree of guerrilla warfare dates to the earliest days...occupied it. In far too many guerrilla wars, the military balance...numbers of ...
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GUERRILLA WARFARE: WHEN TAKING CARE OF YOUR TROOPS LEADS TO WAR CRIMES.
Magazine article from: Journal of Power and Ethics; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...world safer for insurgency warfare (1). Along with the growing...incidents (2), and warring guerrilla factions increasingly target...apparent link between guerrilla warfare and atrocity. I shall first...overarching strategy of insurgency warfare of using noncombatants to achieve...
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Guerrilla warfare savvy.(A)(Commentary)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/21/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Vietnam: You can't fight guerrillas or terrorists with conventional...war. It's hard to fight a guerrilla war with convention[al...understood the meaning of guerrilla warfare, Afghanistan would now be...Kennedy said this form of warfare demanded "a whole new kind...to the accepted methods ...
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Guerrilla Warfare
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...guerrilla forces. When guerrillas are able to secure the support...protected by it, anti-guerrilla forces find it difficult...deter it from supporting the guerrillas. In a famous case in South...served as a model for modern guerrilla warfare for many other guerrilla...
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guerrilla warfare
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
guerrilla warfare [Span...troops (guerrillas) within...populace, whom guerrillas often seek...terrorism. Guerrilla warfare has played...frequent guerrilla warfare in Latin...American guerrillas are Francisco...
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warfare
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...facilities available. Thus, throughout history the methods of warfare have changed. See air forces ; amphibious warfare ; chemical warfare ; biological warfare ; fortification ; mechanized warfare ; trench warfare ; guerrilla warfare ; siege .
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Jungle Warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...specially trained in irregular warfare and employed in jungle operations...to relearn the lessons of jungle warfare in Vietnam. The army especially...was almost wholly unprepared for guerrilla warfare in Vietnam's jungles. For a...
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Submarine Warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Submarine Warfare. Modern navies employed submarines...could nonetheless employ a sort of guerrilla warfare at sea, using surprise and attacking...x201C;unrestricted submarine warfare,” that is, sinking merchant...
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