Reconstruction efforts are under way, but American troops remain targets of almost daily attacks by Iraqi irregulars. |
Stricter martial law often applied to border states like Kentucky and Missouri, where populations with Confederate sympathies provided support for Confederate irregulars. |
He's learnt that irregulars and paramilitaries can cause problems, using things like human shields. |
Meanwhile, specially trained anti-guerilla units, cavalry and African scouts and irregulars did much of the actual fighting. |
Amitav Ghosh spent many weeks, at great personal risk, with the irregulars fighting the military regime in Burma. |
In its essence, this battle was typical of all those against the Iraqi irregulars. |