Sentence examples for shadowy war from inspiring English sources
Its war of words with the West, and particularly Israel, over its nuclear ambitions, appears to have escalated into a shadowy war of tit-for-tat assassinations.
Noel Regney was a Frenchman who joined the Nazi army, then, like many Frenchman with shadowy war records, subsequently claimed to be a member of the Resistance.
This is not to say the shadowy covert war targeting Iran with cyber attacks, assassinations and destabilisation operations will stop.
Scores were killed.As usual in the shadowy Darfur war, no one is sure who the attackers were or what was their motive.
This was a country dominated by terror as the hardline government fought a shadowy civil war against Islamist insurgents who sought to turn Algeria into "Iran on the Mediterranean".
But the Saudi role in a shadowy intelligence war in Yemen's hinterlands has emerged in accounts from observers in Yemen and from Al Qaeda itself, which has often publicized its struggles to outwit Prince bin Nayef's informers.
The meeting had been organized so that Pashtun tribal elders who lived along the Pakistani-Afghan frontier could meet with Westerners for the first time to offer their perspectives on the shadowy drone war being waged by the Central Intelligence Agency in their region.
The fact that Saudi funds, whether officially sanctioned or not, contributed to the emergence of ISIS is an unfortunate reality, but Saudi's leaders also seem well aware that their shadowy proxy war against Iran has the potential for serious blowback that could threaten the regime.
These were shadowy cold-war assignments that later led an old schoolfriend to remark at a reunion: "I thought I saw you in chains on Bucharest railway station, but I thought I'd better not say anything".
Shadowy modern wars are less about overwhelming force than mastering instantaneous communication to win hearts and minds, adapting rapidly, flattening ponderous military hierarchies, understanding nation-building, and bringing to bear U.S. abilities in fields as diverse as engineering and agronomy.
