guerrilla war

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This wasn’t “an argument between genteel parties in Congress,” William Hogeland writes in his history, The Whiskey Rebellion, “but…a guerrilla war on the country’s ragged margin, our first war for the American soul.”

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Now, four decades after leading Namibia through a bitter guerrilla war against South Africa's racist apartheid government and on to independence, Nujoma has died aged 95.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

As such, almost half of our genome is engaged in a constant guerrilla war with the other half as TEs seek to multiply, while our cells try to prevent them from spreading.

From Science Daily • Oct. 2, 2023

Born in 1931, Yan was the son of Yan Baohan, an intelligence official for the party, then an underground group fighting a guerrilla war against the Nationalist Party-led government of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2023

Now let’s consider the form of the contest: blitzkrieg or guerrilla war?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond