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guerrilla warfare

noun

  1. the use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of irregular forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, regular force.


guerrilla warfare

  1. Wars fought with hit-and-run tactics by small groups against an invader or against an established government. ( See counterinsurgency .)
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of guerrilla warfare1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Another farmer, David Lemon, said hare coursing has become like "guerrilla warfare" in his area on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border.

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India’s independence movement was closely aligned with Ireland's, for example, and explicitly modeled on the combination of civil disobedience and guerrilla warfare that won Irish independence in the 1920s.

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The court has previously heard Rhianan downloaded bomb manuals, guides on guerrilla warfare and media glorifying white supremacy and Nazism.

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But those troops will be vulnerable to the same, and likely intensified, guerrilla warfare that Hamas has engaged in from the start of the war—the kind of fighting that claimed the lives of 16 soldiers in northern Gaza in just one week before the Jan. 19 ceasefire went into effect.

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Rhianan Rudd, 16, downloaded bomb manuals, guides on guerrilla warfare and media glorifying white supremacy and Nazism, Chesterfield Coroner's Court was told.

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