Sentence examples for irregular tactics from inspiring English sources

Nephew to Robert E. Lee and an accomplished cavalry leader in his own right, Lee disapproved of Mosby's irregular tactics.

It is a measure of how historical the war is now becoming that one feels the need to explain that the Chindits were a force that worked behind enemy lines in Burma using irregular tactics derived from Wingate's "off-key" mindset to harry, disturb and generally mess things up for the Japanese.

The NRA doubtless recalls that Kyushu Electric itself was caught using highly irregular PR tactics.

Lawrence, an academic without formal military training, displayed an astonishing grasp of both regular and irregular military tactics.

In general usage, the term also refers to irregular or guerrilla tactics carried out by small regular units.

"This is an environment where you find anything is irregular, your best tactic is to be extremely open as soon as possible, even if it is not material".

It was like World War II, he said, in the movement of forces and supplies; like Vietnam in the tenacity and tactics of irregular forces and like the Persian Gulf war in the technological orchestration between weapons on the ground, in the air and in space.

"It's a common tactic in irregular warfare situations to pit the rivalries of an ethnically diverse populace against each other," he told me.

Adversaries use guerrilla tactics; they are irregulars; they take advantage of the hostile local weather and terrain; they refuse to stay in uniform.

But the effort, led by Trump's notorious informal adviser Roger Stone, will focus on 600 different precincts in nine Democrat-leaning cities with large minority populations, a tactic branded highly irregular by experts, who suggested that organizers could potentially use the polling as a way to intimidate voters.

A fresh indication of such tactics and the determination of irregular forces to contest the American efforts to stabilize and rebuild Iraq came in recent days when fedayeen fighters entered Saddam City, a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, and lobbed shells at American marines.