Word: guerrillas
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...original invitation to visit one N.P.A. unit was canceled due to "bad weather"-rebel code for increased enemy activity. Instead, we travel north along a half-finished highway through Compostela Valley, another guerrilla stronghold, where troops assigned to Arroyo's security detail had been injured in an N.P.A. ambush in July...
...personal tragedy-the 1993 death of his brother, also an N.P.A. guerrilla, in a firefight with government troops-reaffirmed his commitment to the cause. "He died in my arms," says Jorex. "It was painful. But I feel the same pain when one of my comrades dies...
...N.P.A., neither is extinction. Victor asserts that Arroyo's "all-out war" is unwinnable. The Philippine army is thinly dispersed, he argues, capable of engaging only a quarter of the N.P.A.'s 120 "fronts" nationwide while remaining vulnerable to hit-and-run tactics. "We have learned a lot about guerrilla warfare in 37 years," he warns. Felipe Miranda, a political-science professor at the University of the Philippines, agrees: "The military does not have the capability, in terms of both logistics and manpower, to deal with an insurgency that has been around for close to half a century." Officials...
...task: they're tired and overextended, and it will take time to retrain them to knock on doors rather than kick them down. Third, this is no longer an insurgency; it's a civil war. Counterinsurgency tactics are designed to help a credible indigenous government fight a guerrilla opponent. The idea that Nouri al-Maliki's government is responsible is laughable: it's little more than a fig leaf for Shi'ite militias. Finally, as Mosul shows, these tactics require lots of time. I asked a leading active-duty Army counterinsurgency expert how long it would take before we knew...
...group remains the most active Greek terror organization since authorities broke up the country's most deadly urban guerrilla group, November 17, blamed for dozens of bomb attacks and for the killing of 23 people including American, British and Turkish officials. The leftist group was dismantled in 2002 as Greece cracked down in the run-up to the 2004 Olympics. Its suspected leader and other leading figures have been imprisoned in Greece's maximum security prison since 2003. More recently, however, a string of copycat terror cells have emerged, targeting government buildings and foreign business interests...