Sentence examples for unconventional war from inspiring English sources

I understand this is a unconventional war.

A weapon of unconventional war had shown itself once again to be a domestic killer.

Told of such comments, the Pentagon adviser, who is an expert on unconventional war, expressed dismay.

The secret side of this "unconventional war" has not been going any more convincingly.

Theirs is an unconventional war: their weapons are traps, their enemy rats.

But we were not prepared for the terrorists' unconventional war inside our heads.

A president has the right to order lethal force against conventional enemies during conventional war, or against unconventional enemies in unconventional wars.

Mr. Gates said in October that "unconventional wars" were "the ones most likely to be fought in the years ahead".

WASHINGTON — A growing number of veteran commandos in Special Operations are rising to top positions in traditional military units and across the national security bureaucracy, reflecting the importance of their specialized training to fight unconventional wars that defined the past decade.

Yet it does so at its own peril: unconventional wars against insurgencies and nonstate entities seem certain to remain on the nation's threat horizon for years to come.

"Scholars are virtually unanimous in their judgment that conventional forces often lose unconventional wars because they lack a conceptual understanding of the war they are fighting," Lt. Col. Matthew Moten, chief of military history at West Point, would comment in 2004.