the use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of irregular forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, regular force.
a type of military action using small mobile irregular forces to carry out surprise tactics against hostile regular forces
Spanish ‘skirmishing’ + warfare
guerrilla warfare [(guh-ril-uh)]
Wars fought with hit-and-run tactics by small groups against an invader or against an established government. (See counterinsurgency.)
/French ɡeklɛ̃/ noun 1. Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years’ War
[ged] /gɛd/ noun 1. Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), (Mathieu Basile) 1845–1922, French socialist leader, editor, and writer.
[ges] /gɛs/ verb (used with object) 1. to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person’s weight. 2. to estimate or conjecture about correctly: to guess what a word means. 3. to think, believe, or suppose: I guess I can […]
- Guess again
see: have another guess coming