Word: guerrillas
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...wider world, East Timor is a geopolitical footnote, a mere half of an island that became a short-lived nation, born in fratricidal guerrilla war and eventually swallowed by its giant neighbor Indonesia. For 21 years, despite reports of abuses by Indonesia, East Timor has been a subject mostly for diplomatic specialists. Its exiled representatives looked in vain for support, literally knocking on doors that refused to open. And then last week East Timor was back in the headlines. The committee for the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo gave its coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating...
Even though it took him 13 years to bring Michael Collins to the screen, Jordan never had anyone but Neeson in mind for the role of the Irish revolutionary and guerrilla tactician. "Liam has got this terribly honest heart beneath everything," Jordan notes. "One of my worries was that the audience would perhaps lose sympathy for Collins because what he does is so ferocious, but halfway through I realized Liam could chop up his grandmother and he'd still be a sympathetic...
Jordan is nothing if not ambitious, but he does have a great subject. For it was Collins who, in the aftermath of the disastrous Easter Rising of 1916, which proved the hopelessness of open confrontation with Britain's occupying army, virtually invented urban guerrilla warfare, in effect writing the Ur-text on hit-and-run terrorism on Dublin's jostling streets. His work influenced generations of rebels everywhere. Then, having brought the British to their knees--and to the bargaining table--Collins in 1921 helped to negotiate the peace settlement that established the Irish Free State but failed...
When the U.S. and its allies established a safe haven for the Kurds in northern Iraq after the Gulf War, one goal was to use the territory as a base from which opposition groups could confront Saddam. The U.S. refused to support an all-out guerrilla war, but the White House and Congress did allow the CIA to spend between $10 million and $15 million a year running two clandestine operations. The smaller but more promising one was a paramilitary organization known as Wifaq (Iraqi National Accord), based in Jordan. Wifaq's 80 to 100 members included several prominent former...
...devastating strains of familiar diseases like influenza will continue to threaten humans, they also know that adopting the right strategy can contain the damage. In this view, the fight against infectious disease is neither a leisurely war of attrition nor a desperate retreat. Instead, it looms as a protracted guerrilla conflict in which reliable intelligence and rapid reaction are the keys to survival. The enemy could strike anywhere at any time. Only when a disease outbreak has been contained can doctors allow themselves the luxury of thinking about prevention and cure...