Word: guerilla
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...about 5000. They do not like the tropical climate, and, unlike the Chinese, do not adapt themselves readily to unaccustomed conditions. Commercial supremacy, however, is their greatest desire, and doubtless they would like to seize the Islands, if the Americans withdrew. The well-known prowess of the natives in guerilla fighting would make such a conquest very difficult even if unhindered by the intervention of another power. Nevertheless, if independence were granted, it would be necessary to insure it by an international agreement. Otherwise they would be quickly snapped up by some outside power...
...face of this widespread desire for peace, De Valera and his young enthusiasts are carrying on a general policy of guerilla warfare and terrorism. No fewer than three hundred and thirty postoffices have recently been broken into and robbed, while the killings have averaged some five or ten a day. Our American crime waves pale before such a display...
...signing of the Irish Peace agreement marks the end of a second period of terrorism and guerilla warfare which has not only brought little credit to Ireland but has even cast grave doubts on her ability to govern herself under the Irish Free State. Like the treaty between England and Sinn Fein this settlement was signed quite suddenly at a crisis of Irish affairs. Since the speeches of Collins and De Valera, in a sort of Lincoln-Douglas series, early in March, conditions have grown steadily worse, particularly in Limerick and about Belfast, until finally they assumed almost the dimensions...
...people of the country do not want Mexico, which would mean years of guerilla fighting and worry. Neither do they want war. In the present imperfect state of civilization, however, war is at times a necessity; the progress of universal peace has been and will be infinitely slow. And when the United States is responsible not only for its own interests, but, through the Monroe Doctrine, for the interests of other nations among a people, disorganized and semi-barbarous, as the Mexicans, war may become inevitable. The Administration can afford a certain amount of ridicule from foreign state departments...
...instructor to make use of Napoleonic tactics, and concentrate his forces on a single point, - this being, doubtless, the best method of attack, - and we should mass our strength on the point we expect to be attacked, thus leaving our whole domain open to the incursions of random, guerilla-like questions. But if the movement of the enemy is merely a feint, we are liable to be utterly conquered by his victorious march through a country only defended by its ordinary militia. It is this danger which makes most students averse to the plan of learning thoroughly any particular part...