| After all, in both wars, most of the fighting was against irregulars, who operated among civilians. |
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| The native mandarinate organized a rebellion against the French and were supported by Chinese regulars and irregulars. |
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| Amitav Ghosh spent many weeks, at great personal risk, with the irregulars fighting the military regime in Burma. |
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| Other combat units went in and used better reconnaissance and fighting skills to methodically eliminate the irregulars. |
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| Meanwhile, specially trained anti-guerilla units, cavalry and African scouts and irregulars did much of the actual fighting. |
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| During the war, beginning in eastern France, it was used to refer to groups of irregulars who had organized themselves to fight the Germans. |
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| In its essence, this battle was typical of all those against the Iraqi irregulars. |
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| The Filipino operational center of gravity was the ability to sustain its force of 100,000 irregulars in the field. |
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| He's learnt that irregulars and paramilitaries can cause problems, using things like human shields. |
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| Personal leadership must still be exercised on these most ferocious of battlefields as we face shattered remnants and irregulars. |
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| Reconstruction efforts are under way, but American troops remain targets of almost daily attacks by Iraqi irregulars. |
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| Incorrectly received merchandise or irregulars must be returned within 10 days of receipt of goods, andare fully refundable. |
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| Beware of irregulars and infiltrators trying to pass as civilians. |
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| These irregulars have the field skills needed to survive in the mountains, and all the cunning of bandits. |
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| The next day his peremptory order to the authorities to send the irregulars home was obeyed with alacrity, and this should have been the end of the matter. |
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| Stricter martial law often applied to border states like Kentucky and Missouri, where populations with Confederate sympathies provided support for Confederate irregulars. |
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| Apparently, this is equally true among guerrillas and other irregulars. |
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| Trying to get clear of the force, Richie accepts a federal assignment to set up his own group of irregulars. |
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| Arkansas had grudgingly provided 15 infantry regiments, 4 batteries of artillery and 5.000 irregulars. |
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| The mission, supposed to take roughly an hour, degenerated into a 15-hour shootout between 120 American soldiers and several thousand Somali irregulars and clan militia. |
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| Visual galactic luminosities show similar spreads among the three types, but the irregulars tend to be less luminous. |
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| In Ancient warfare, most civilized nations relied heavily on irregulars to augment their small regular army. |
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| On 2 April 1453, Sultan Mehmed's army of 80,000 men and large numbers of irregulars laid siege to the city. |
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| Russia has not moved its troops across the border as many feared, but it is fighting through proxies: Soviet army veterans, saboteurs, irregulars from Crimea, mercenaries and outright criminals. |
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| We are particularly disturbed by reports of killings and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by South Ossetian and Abkhaz irregulars, in areas controlled by Russian forces. |
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| The cases envisaged by article 9 presuppose the existence of a government in office and of State machinery whose place is taken by irregulars or whose action is supplemented in certain cases. |
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| According to the Congolese Press, leaders of several militias of irregulars are preparing to resume the war in East Congo, in view of the coming elections. |
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| Even in advanced civilizations, the irregulars commonly outnumbered the regular army. |
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| When, over in the east, General Valentine Baker led his force of four thousand irregulars against Osman Digna, he was roundly thrashed. |
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| Other things being equal, major battles between regulars and irregulars heavily favor the regulars. |
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| By avoiding formal battles, irregulars have sometimes harassed high quality armies to destruction. |
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| Since the military actions of irregulars are often small and unofficial, they are underreported or even overlooked. |
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| The coalition forces also received support from Kurdish irregulars in Iraqi Kurdistan. |
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| During the Battle of Nasiriyah, there was an incident where Iraqi irregulars feigned surrender to approach an American unit securing a bridge. |
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| Isolated regular army units forced to operate without regular support for long periods of time can degrade into irregulars. |
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| During this campaign the majority of locally recruited irregulars defected to the Germanic tribesmen led by the former auxiliary officer Arminius. |
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| Experienced irregulars often surpass the regular army in these functions. |
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| Irregulars are soldiers or warriors that are members of these organizations, or are members of special military units that employ irregular military tactics. |
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