Superempowered global guerrillas — whether it's Al Qaeda, Iraqi insurgents, Nigerian oil fighters or the Brazilian gang P.C.C. — specialize in what Robb calls systems disruption.
Q: Your writing has focused on three themes: global guerrillas, resilient communities, and, more recently, drone disruption.
Relates to global implications of terrorist activities, guerrilla operations, and regional conflicts throughout the world.
It rolled out global operations at both blitzkrieg and guerrilla levels in the noughties: aggressively carpet-bombing its blockbusters across national borders with simultaneous worldwide releases (2003's The Matrix Revolutions was the first), while engaging also in subtler tactics.
In a training center in Kunduz, the guerrillas stored pamphlets promoting global jihad, most of them printed in Pakistan.
It is hard to see how the stalemating of El Salvador's Marxist guerrillas hastened the fall of global Communism.
The interference of regional and global powers, combined with the fragmentation of militias and guerrillas on the battlefield, have made the conflict appear all but unresolvable.
But the world's Friedmanites have waged a relentless guerrilla war against the idea, denouncing it as a farrago of value-destroying nonsense.Edelman's research gives a good overview of the state of the global battle.
His economy, artificially buoyed by high oil prices, remains stubbornly unreformed; his army remains stuck in a murderous guerrilla war in Chechnya and Russiaa is falling behind daily in the global struggle for economic advantage and modernization.
Global pharmaceutical companies succumbed to their demands, at first out of fear of guerrilla protests, later out of respect for their minds.
