Sentence examples for protracted guerrilla from inspiring English sources

The FIS and more extreme Islamist groups afterward waged a protracted guerrilla war, in which atrocities by both sides were alleged to have occured.

It was in rural China, among a peasant population, that Mao developed a new strategy suited to these circumstances – building peasant armies to fight a protracted guerrilla war.

It came into prominence only after the Six-Day War of June 1967, however, and engaged in a protracted guerrilla war against Israel during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s before entering into peace negotiations with that country in the 1990s.

There is even talk of chemical weapons.Even if the Tigers are soon broken as a conventional fighting force, they might regroup in remote northern jungles to wage a protracted guerrilla war.

But the March trip has symbolic importance for both sides because it will be the first state visit by a French leader to Algeria since the former French colony declared independence four decades ago after a protracted guerrilla war.

The mountains also provided the backdrop to modern Libya's bloody quest for nationhood — where the country's greatest hero, Omar Mukhtar, led a protracted guerrilla war against the Italians, who in 1911 invaded Libya, resolving to seize it from the Ottomans and make it Italy's "Fourth Shore".

Nam Viet was abandoned in 1428 after protracted guerrilla-style resistance had thoroughly undermined Chinese control there.

The likely prospect now is a protracted and messy guerrilla conflict.

The meticulously organized operation to hunt Pepe down, carried out with the help of environmentalists, has become the focus of an unusually fierce debate over animal rights and the containment of invasive species in a country still struggling to address a broad range of rights violations during four decades of protracted war with guerrillas.

Nagl read "Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice," by Col. C.E. Callwell, a British officer who in 1896 warned of "protracted, thankless, invertebrate war" in guerrilla terrain.

In 1981, after a protracted political crisis, a leftist guerrilla army attacked El Salvador's military, setting off eleven years of fighting, in which seventy-five thousand people were killed.