It focused on a narrow set of infantry skills -- primarily weapons use, but also basic demolitions, leadership and planning small attacks and ambushes, typical missions of an irregular infantry force.
Small bodies such as the asteroid Itokawa (the target of the Hayabusa mission) have very irregular surfaces, which is likely also the case for the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, the targets of the Hayabusa2 and the OSIRIS-REx missions, respectively.
Irregular warfare — whether guerrilla or counterinsurgency missions — will remain a threat, said Mr. Krepinevich, who was an opposition analyst during the Pentagon's quadrennial review of strategy and budgets.
Sadly, there seem to be more construction firms on their way to the old city, their mission to smooth out the irregular, cobbled pathways.
The new law authorizes the secretary of defense to spend as much as $25 million a year through 2007 "to provide support to foreign forces, irregular forces, groups or individuals" who help Special Operations missions to combat terrorism.
Two attempts to fly the mission in early December were thwarted by irregular readings from four sensors at the bottom of the shuttle's large external fuel tank.
This is why any work done to address youth unemployment is part of a broader mission to reduce the negative impact of irregular migration.
Throughout the period, the siege continued actively, with artillery duels, attacks by Albanian irregulars on Greek supply lines, and reconnaissance and bombing missions on the city by the Greek airplanes.
Problems can often occur when a legged robot attempts to walk on irregular or damaged terrain, such as in search and rescue missions during natural and man-made disasters.
It "perhaps needs to write a new strategic concept that embraces unconventional threats and irregular warfare as the meat and potatoes of future NATO missions".
