In an insurgent war and the confusion over who fired first, Americans are often blamed.

And while today's insurgent wars have dictated moves towards more heavily armoured military transport, the Jeep and the Defender stand alone as highly manoeuvrable, general-purpose vehicles.

Still, success is difficult to measure in the complexity of an insurgent war, and apparent military victories must be weighed against other factors.

He resisted United Nations efforts to investigate the alleged massacre by his rebel forces of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees during his seven-month insurgent war.

Ne Win's Government is using drug war weaponry to fight territorial and insurgent wars.

The agreements have, for the most part, ended a series of expensive insurgent wars that had become a way of life in the mountainous fringes of this country.

"In Colombia, there is an insurgent war," Mr. Rangel said.

If the insurgent war were ended, however, Nicaragua would have no legitimate need for helicopter gunships and the like, nor would the Russians have any legitimate reason to supply them.

The Solemn Act defined penalties for those people who contravene the insurgent war or for those who refused to give their financial support.

But the insurgent war, massively supported and directed by the North, was the war.