Word: insurrectionism
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Not that the two insurgencies have any hope of prevailing militarily against the estimated 150,000 Coalition troops currently in Iraq. They're no match in a conventional confrontation, but insurgencies are won and lost in the hearts and minds of the local population, and on that front the battle...
The Shiite challenge is different from the Sunni insurgency. Instead of guerrillas attacking from the shadows and melting back into the civilian population, Moqtada al-Sadr has built a grassroots infrastructure for insurrection, with support structures in local mosques dotted around the country recruiting young men for his "Army of...
Haiti's Monsters In "A Battle of Cannibals and Monsters," on the insurrection in Haiti [Feb. 23], you noted that the pro-government Clean Sweep militiamen are called chim?res, which is Creole for mythical monsters. In Greek mythology, the Chimera are fire-breathing monsters. Metaphorically, the word is used today...
Some 42 people have been killed in Haiti over the past week in open warfare that has pitched police and Aristide supporters against rebel gangs that have taken control of more than a dozen towns and a large civic opposition movement. The insurrection has sparked a humanitarian crisis by disrupting...
Bolivia’s brush with disintegration and violent socialist insurrection should remind the U.S. to retain an active interest in nations that have been paying the high prices of America’s market-based reforms. The U.S. cannot afford to leave these countries without help in emergency situations...