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oil-spot strategy

guerrilla warfare

Also known as: tache d’huile strategy

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In guerrilla warfare: Counterguerrilla warfare
…employed this tache d’huile, or oil-spot, strategy in Algeria, where he used the army not as an instrument of repression but, in conjunction with civil services, as a positive social force—“the organization on the march.”
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