| 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. |
| Other combat units went in and used better reconnaissance and fighting skills to methodically eliminate the irregulars. |
| After all, in both wars, most of the fighting was against irregulars, who operated among civilians. |
| Reconstruction efforts are under way, but American troops remain targets of almost daily attacks by Iraqi irregulars. |
| Personal leadership must still be exercised on these most ferocious of battlefields as we face shattered remnants and irregulars. |
