guerrilla war
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guerrilla
noun[C]
uk/ɡəˈrɪl.ə/us/ɡəˈrɪl.ə/
a member of an unofficial military group that is trying to change the government by making sudden, unexpected attacks on the official ...
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war
noun[C or U]
uk/wɔːr/us/wɔːr/
armed fighting between two or more countries or groups, or a particular example ...
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If that happens in a highly organised international war, what would be the situation following aguerrillawar?
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This is turning aguerrillawarinto what is a civil war, with all the terrible implications that we know is held by that.
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The miners are back at work, but theguerrillawargoes on.
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He would have difficulty in continuing theguerrillawar.
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It is perhaps optimistic to think that we have the power to instruct the parties to call off theguerrillawar.
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Sinceguerrillawaris always decentralised, these phases vary spatially within the war zone.
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Theguerrillawarof the 1970s witnessed an attack on modernity as the guerrillas and their sympathizers regarded immigrant farmers as colonial collaborators.
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In theirguerrillawarthere was little opportunity and fewer resources to fight any other way.
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For example, trade union violence, an intensification of theguerrillawarand a resurgence of political protest coincided during the 1970s.
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Social tensions and economic crisis produced aguerrillawarin the province that took nearly a decade to stamp out.
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And, in practice, the necessities ofguerrillawarintroduced coercive factors that constrained the voluntary nature of civilian participation.
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There was the mystique ofguerrillawar.
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This policy outlived theguerrillawar.
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On many occasions we have made very clear our position on theguerrillawar.
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That is the way in which theguerrillawaris being waged.
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The urbanguerrillawarwhich is so difficult to fight, but in which victory must be gained, is a grave worry for our forces.
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Guerrillawaris the most expensive and most uncontrollable of all types of war.
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They are aware of the difficuties facing them in fighting aguerrillawarand retaining their social democratic ideals.
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There are a number of factions involved in theguerrillawar.
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