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Unless the Russians intend to be completely genocidal – they could flatten all the major cities, and Ukrainians will rise up against Russian occupation – there will be just constant guerrilla war. – Michael Clarke	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think it's fair to say that they still have a significant presence in Iraq and Syria. They're certainly nowhere near as strong as they were in 2017 and 2018, so they have been significantly degraded, again still maintain the ability to conduct insurgent, guerrilla-style operations and that's what they see today. – Joseph Dunford	Found on CNN 4 years ago
First we targeted (the hotel) with a suicide car bomb and then armed mujahideen (guerrilla fighters) stormed the hotel. We are still fighting inside the hotel, there are many dead bodies inside the hotel, including a dead white man. We control the hotel now. – Abdiasis Abu Musab	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Peace is something all Colombians yearn for, and peace means that we turn the page on the fractures that have divided us into friends and enemies of peace, today, we're all friends to build that peace and it must be a peace that above all allows the guerrilla base its demobilization, its disarmament and its effective reinsertion. – Ivan Duque	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are already seeing smaller cells and pockets that take more of an insurgent guerrilla type approach as opposed to an Islamic army or conventional type force. So we have got to be prepared for that. – Ryan Dillon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Here, it can jeopardize western interests through guerrilla warfare sabotaging Libya’s oil facilities and ports and through calculated use of terror to unleash a mass migration of people to destabilize neighboring countries and Europe. – Joseph Fallon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
A lot of things that John Ridley brought in the script felt like voices of today, voices of 2017, guerrilla. – Freida Pinto	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's like guerrilla warfare, every few years they change location or change name and emerge once more. – Gong Xiaoming	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
A war council is almost always a death sentence, i got lucky. A guerrilla commander who knew my mother stepped in at the last minute and voted to save my life. – Yeimi Diaz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I got lucky. A guerrilla commander who knew my mother stepped in at the last minute and voted to save my life. – Yeimi Diaz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It might also be proposed that we go and attack (Lebanese guerrilla group) Hezbollah's 100,000 rockets in the north or the hundreds of missiles that Iran has aimed at us. – Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There's lots of development on social media. It's clandestine, guerrilla comedy. – Saad Haroon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're going to see quite a bit of guerrilla theater -- a growing amount of it -- entering the 2016 election, having a gyrocopter land on the Capitol, or the protestors in the Supreme Court, just shows the anger. – Craig Holman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The battle could be lengthy. It will be hit and run -- this is the system we are going to use in battle, we are not a state army defending borders ... we operate a system of guerrilla warfare. As far as we are concerned, land is not important. – Abu Osama al-Jolani	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s possible that they were trained in Yemen or anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula, this was a highly trained team. They were trained in small arms and small unit tactics. What they were displaying is guerrilla warfare 101. – Scott Stewart	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
viral aesthetics and guerrilla marketing – Vandal Arts	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. – Henry Kissinger	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Unless the Russians intend to be completely genocidal – they could flatten all the major cities, and Ukrainians will rise up against Russian occupation – there will be just constant guerrilla war.

– Michael Clarke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's fair to say that they still have a significant presence in Iraq and Syria. They're certainly nowhere near as strong as they were in 2017 and 2018, so they have been significantly degraded, again still maintain the ability to conduct insurgent, guerrilla-style operations and that's what they see today.

– Joseph Dunford

Found on CNN
4 years ago

First we targeted (the hotel) with a suicide car bomb and then armed mujahideen (guerrilla fighters) stormed the hotel. We are still fighting inside the hotel, there are many dead bodies inside the hotel, including a dead white man. We control the hotel now.

– Abdiasis Abu Musab

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Peace is something all Colombians yearn for, and peace means that we turn the page on the fractures that have divided us into friends and enemies of peace, today, we're all friends to build that peace and it must be a peace that above all allows the guerrilla base its demobilization, its disarmament and its effective reinsertion.

– Ivan Duque

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are already seeing smaller cells and pockets that take more of an insurgent guerrilla type approach as opposed to an Islamic army or conventional type force. So we have got to be prepared for that.

– Ryan Dillon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Here, it can jeopardize western interests through guerrilla warfare sabotaging Libya’s oil facilities and ports and through calculated use of terror to unleash a mass migration of people to destabilize neighboring countries and Europe.

– Joseph Fallon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A lot of things that John Ridley brought in the script felt like voices of today, voices of 2017, guerrilla.

– Freida Pinto

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's like guerrilla warfare, every few years they change location or change name and emerge once more.

– Gong Xiaoming

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A war council is almost always a death sentence, i got lucky. A guerrilla commander who knew my mother stepped in at the last minute and voted to save my life.

– Yeimi Diaz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I got lucky. A guerrilla commander who knew my mother stepped in at the last minute and voted to save my life.

– Yeimi Diaz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It might also be proposed that we go and attack (Lebanese guerrilla group) Hezbollah's 100,000 rockets in the north or the hundreds of missiles that Iran has aimed at us.

– Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's lots of development on social media. It's clandestine, guerrilla comedy.

– Saad Haroon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're going to see quite a bit of guerrilla theater -- a growing amount of it -- entering the 2016 election, having a gyrocopter land on the Capitol, or the protestors in the Supreme Court, just shows the anger.

– Craig Holman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The battle could be lengthy. It will be hit and run -- this is the system we are going to use in battle, we are not a state army defending borders ... we operate a system of guerrilla warfare. As far as we are concerned, land is not important.

– Abu Osama al-Jolani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s possible that they were trained in Yemen or anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula, this was a highly trained team. They were trained in small arms and small unit tactics. What they were displaying is guerrilla warfare 101.

– Scott Stewart

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

viral aesthetics and guerrilla marketing

– Vandal Arts

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

– Henry Kissinger

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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