Many violent conflicts occur in areas of dense tropical forest, where regular and irregular armies, timber and mining companies, indigenous people and drug cartels vie for control over natural resources.
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However, Gwak Jae-u one of the main leaders of the irregular armies of Korea arrived at night with an extremely small band, not enough to relieve the Koreans at Jinju.
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Some irregular armies and militias tacitly endorse looting of civilian areas as a way for troops to supplement their meagre incomes, and promote pillaging and rape of civilians as a reward for victory.
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Dom Ant�nio was therefore forced to recruit an irregular army composed mainly of local peasants and townspeople as well as 3, 000 African slaves who fought for Ant�nio in exchange for their freedom.
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Also, according to Israeli intelligence sources, Hezbollah is working to forge loyalist government militias into a 100, 000-strong irregular army to fight alongside the government's conventional forces.
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In Hunan Province, a local irregular army, called the Xiang Army or Hunan Army, under the personal leadership of Zeng Guofan, became the main armed force fighting for the Qing against the Taiping.
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Many of the 10, 000 West African soldiers, 80 percent or so of them from Nigeria, have been stationed here for two years, badly paid, ill-equipped and poorly billeted while facing increasingly aggressive irregular armies.
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For all their strength and technical prowess, the Israelis learned the same bitter lesson that Americans learned in Vietnam and the Russians learned in Afghanistan : that a ragtag irregular army _ fervent, committed and fighting on home ground _ can prove nearly impossible to crush.
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Rubin said the ensuing accord and the gratitude of Kosovo Albanians was among his most " emotionally satisfying experiences, " though some have criticized the agreement as deferring too much to a ruthless, irregular army and giving it too much of a role in settling the conflict.
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He is the author of " Irregular Army : How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror " published by Verso Books and " The Racket : A Rogue Reporter vs . the Masters of the Universe " published by Zed Books.
