guerrilla warfare
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Navy’s siege is revealing a hole in Tehran’s strategy of guerrilla warfare and controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
"The marine firefighter battalion is waging guerrilla warfare, hoses in hand," said the city's Mayor Benoît Payan, referring to Marseille's fire and rescue service.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
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.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025
The floating fetus, we’re told, communicates with mother and brother not in the typical ooh, the baby’s kicking fashion, but rather, in full-blown telepathic sentences about interplanetary strategy and guerrilla warfare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
This sort of guerrilla warfare dragged on for eight months.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
