guerrilla war

For more than six years, there has been a guerrilla war in Cameroon between government forces and insurgents who want certain parts of the country to become an independent state.

“When you’re fighting a guerrilla war, I think the ultimate success or failure is whether you’re able to survive,” he said.

He graduated in 1952, then served three years in the military, mostly in Southeast Asia, where Britain’s colonial forces were fighting a guerrilla war in present-day Malaysia.

Separatist rebels have for decades wages a low-level guerrilla war for independence in resource-rich Papua, with the frequency of deadly skirmishes increasingly in recent years as rebel groups have become more skilled at obtaining sophisticated weapons through raids and black-market trades.

If Israel does launch a ground assault on north Gaza - and Hamas fighters wage a guerrilla war against them from the buildings and tunnels they have occupied in the area - there could be months of fighting which could lead to destruction of the whole area.