Sentence examples for fight guerrillas from inspiring English sources

One is that Plan Colombia, the American-backed scheme to fight guerrillas by fighting the drug production from which they derive income, is having an effect: coca cultivation is falling in Colombia, but rising elsewhere.

But Brazilian officials often like to portray Colombia as an American Trojan horse.Colombia has received more than $8 billion in American aid to fight guerrillas and drugs since 2000, and in return has been a loyal ally.

But large armies have often found it extremely hard to fight guerrillas in far-away places ask the French in Algeria, the Russians in Afghanistan and, not least, the Americans themselves in Vietnam.

David H. Hackworth, a retired colonel and much-decorated veteran of the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam who later became a journalist and author, said that he created the Tiger Force unit in 1965 to fight guerrillas using guerrilla tactics.

President Bill Clinton announced several measures to help farmers, including cheap loans and a $12m programme of temporary jobs to help residents clean up.Colombia asked America for a big increase in military aid to fight guerrillas and drug traffickers, as part of a $7.5 billion three-year plan launched by President Andres Pastrana.

I was struck by two points made in the article: First, that given the kind of combat American soldiers have seen over the past four decades, "not a single required course focuses on how to fight guerrilla wars" at the Army's Command and General Staff College.

Reconfiguring U.S. forces to let regional allies' militaries fight guerrilla and terrorists, as well as be the first line of defense against major potentially hostile powers, would allow the United States to form a coherent strategy of being a "balancer-of-last resort".

Instead they fought guerrilla wars against them.

In 1941, during World War II, the paper resumed publication underground and stayed on the move, shifting its headquarters with Josip Broz Tito's Partisans as they fought guerrilla actions against the Germans.

The British officer created the "Chindits" a special force who fought guerrilla-style behind Japanese lines during the Burma campaign in World War II.

"I fought the guerrillas in combat, fighting gun to gun, and not like a coward or a psychopath," he said.