guerrilla attack
Hit-and-run assault
A guerrilla attack is a surprise assault by irregular fighters rather than conventional military forces—typically hit-and-run tactics against a larger, better-equipped enemy.
The term extends to any sudden, unconventional strike: The opposition launched a guerrilla attack on the bill through procedural amendments.
Also spelled guerilla attack.
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- raidSudden armed incursion
- night raidAttack launched after dark
- insurgentOne who revolts
- rebelAuthority defier
sabotage · booby trap · jungle · warfare · militia · resistance · sniper · explosion · supply line · roadside · bomb · hit-and-run · hit and run · IED · car bomb · covert · freedom fighter · partisan
- ambushambuscade, bushwhack, trap, lying in wait, kill zone
- military attacksair strike, bombing raid, commando raid, night raid, dawn raid
- military operationsoffensive, marines, Desert Storm, NATO operations, raid
- military tacticstactics, flanking, maneuver, ambush, battle formations
- political violenceassassination, targeted killing, insurrection, summary execution, state terror
- warfarebattle, combat, war, armed conflict, military strategy
guerrilla attackconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
pitched battle · frontal assault · siege warfare · trench warfare · attrition warfare
guerrilla attackpeace negotiation
Dialogue to end conflict
diplomatic solution · ceasefire · treaty · armistice · peaceful protest
guerrilla attackpeaceful protest
Nonviolent collective expression of dissent
nonviolent resistance · civil disobedience · diplomatic negotiation · peaceful demonstration · electoral politics
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