Word: guerrilla
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...buried - could spill across into its restive borderlands, particularly Chinese Tibet and the troubled Indian state of Bihar - developments that Beijing and New Delhi would view with alarm. Nepal's Maoists, moreover, are still on the U.S. State Department's list of terror groups. They have traded their guerrilla hideouts for plush offices in the capital, but had a fearsome reputation for committing violence when the armed struggle raged...
...meet again in the coming days, says Rana. An umbrella movement in its infancy, it will need time to iron out internal differences and optimize its operational capacity. But already, Rana has seen evidence of enhanced capabilities and the sharing of training and resources. And, following the classic guerrilla warfare playbook, the movement is combining military assaults on army posts with political work among the local civilian population. "Once they are united, with support bases in Karachi, Baluchistan and the North West Frontier Province, they will form small Taliban committees," says Rana. "They will not be violent or militant. They...
...choose between the two. To cover what is the most wide-open election in our lifetime, we have assembled the premier political team in journalism, a group that combines decades of campaign experience with the agility required to keep readers informed across a range of platforms. From the guerrilla Web videos on our Swampland blog to Mark Halperin's The Page at TIME.com to our ongoing coverage in the print magazine to round-the-clock TV appearances by TIME correspondents, we offer the world's smartest, most inventive campaign coverage in every medium. All of which adds...
...mishandled his campaign did him an enormous favor. They blew up a campaign that couldn't win," says an unaffiliated Republican strategist. "They destroyed his bases and mangled his supply lines. They left him only the option of falling back on himself and his instincts to fight a guerrilla-style campaign. And that's the only way he can win." Troops decimated, supply lines smoldering, McCain returned to the campaigning he knows and loves best. "He put this campaign on his back," says Mark Salter, McCain's close aide, co-author and comrade through long hours spent lying in ambush...
OLIVER STONE, Hollywood director, who has joined a mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to retrieve three hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, the nation's largest guerrilla army...