Unconventional warfare ( abbreviated UW ) is the opposite of conventional warfare.

The latest approved definition by the US Special Operations Command is as follows: Unconventional Warfare consists of activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow an occupying power or government by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary and guerrilla force in a denied area.

Hunt is active in Democratic politics and, in addition to fundraising events for candidates, she recently convened Unconventional Women, a six-hour program featuring more than 20 female political leaders for an audience of 3000 in Denver during the Democratic National Convention.

* An Indiscreet Itinerary or How the Unconventional Traveler Should See Holland by one who was actually born there and whose name is Hendrik Willem Van loon, 1933, Harcourt, Brace

Unconventional cancer medicine is a multibillion dollar industry in the United States.

Unconventional oil is petroleum produced or extracted using techniques other than the conventional ( oil well ) method.

The phrase " egg and spoon " features in The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ; its use, along with the idiom good egg with which it is sometimes confused, is frowned upon by the Metropolitan Police Service on the grounds of it being derogatory and rhyming slang for " coon ".

Unconventional gas exploration is the premier industry in Fort Nelson, employing a large percentage of Fort Nelson's community members.

Yossef Bodansky ( born in Israel ) is an Israeli-American political scientist who served as Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives from 1988 to 2004.

In 2005, Swensen wrote a book called Unconventional Success which is an investment guide for the individual investor.

Unconventional for an Italian defender trained in the catenaccio tradition, Baresi was an attacking defender who often assisted the team in counterattacks but without neglecting his defensive duties.

Unconventional sexual relationships are a recurring theme in Jordan's work, and he often finds a sympathetic side to characters audiences would traditionally consider deviant or downright horrifying.

Unconventional fiber size was not an issue, as they were developed by fiber manufacturers, but some test equipment has difficulty complying with revised qualification standards, and now use " Step Index with Bends " mode scramblers, which can be adjusted to purpose.

Unconventional wind turbines # Observation deck | Wind turbine with observation deck at Siemens factory in Zoetermeer

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English defines ' pub crawl ' as both a noun and a verb, with the noun ( dating from 1915 ) being defined as " a drinking session that moves from one licensed premises to the next, and so on ", and the verb ( 1937 ) meaning " to move in a group from one drinking establishment to the next, drinking at each.

Unconventional explanations for Valentich's disappearance include speculation by ufologists that the unexplained aircraft with the green light that he reported was a vehicle of some kind, which in turn either abducted Valentich or caused the destruction of his plane in some fashion.

* Columbia Pictures, having bought the book's pre-publication film rights, was not able to produce a script that was approved by the Army while producer David L. Wolper, who also tried to buy the same rights, could not obtain finance for filming. A screenplay was written by George Goodman who had served with the Special Forces in the 1950s as a military intelligence officer and had written a 1961 article about the Special Forces called The Unconventional Warriors in Esquire Magazine.

Unconventional 50-round capacity, four-column magazines are provided with the Spectre, but it can also use conventional magazines.

The next day, there was a joint committee meeting with the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities and the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, to discuss the Able Danger program.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2005 ), The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2007 ), and The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English ( 2008 ) give a secondary meaning as " any blind, unthinking, unquestioning follower of a philosophy.

During the 109th Congress, he served on the House Armed Services Committee ( Subcommittee on Readiness the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities, and the Subcommittee on Projection Forces ), the Committee on Veterans ’ Affairs, and the United States Select Bipartisan Committee on Hurricane Katrina Preparation / Response Investigation.

Examples include ( for French ) the Dictionnaire des expressions et locutions, edited by Alain Rey ( Paris: Le Robert 2006 ), and ( for English ) Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 8th edition, London: Routledge 2002 ).

Unconventional appearance, music, political activism, public protests, drugs, communitarian experiments, and sexual liberation were hallmarks of the sixties counterculture — most of whose members were young, white and middle-class.

* Unconventional therapies-Psychic Surgery — overview by the British Columbia Cancer Agency

* Most Secret ( 1945 ): Unconventional attacks on German forces using a French fishing boat.

Unconventional superconductors are materials that display superconductivity which does not conform to either the conventional BCS theory or the Nikolay Bogolyubov's theory or its extensions.

* Lord Montagu of Beaulieu ( 2000 ) Wheels Within Wheels: An Unconventional Life.

* Dr. Kenneth McLaughlin ' Waterloo: The Unconventional Founding of an Unconventional University ' ( Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press © 1997 )

Political scientist Han S. Park in his book Juche: The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom ( 2002 ) and theologian Thomas J. Belke in Juche: A Christian Study of North Korea's State Religion ( 1999 ) have both likened Juche to a religious movement.

* Park, Han S. North Korea: The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom.

He was stationed in Korea as a military police sentry dog handler and to the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, assuming military police duties and teaching hand-to-hand combat to Special Operations and Special Forces personnel at the John F. Kennedy Unconventional Warfare Center.

In his 2005 autobiographical book Right Turns: From Liberal Activist to Conservative Champion in 35 Unconventional Lessons, Medved says he welcomed the chance to escape " the movie ghetto " and to speak to a wider audience about politics and morality, which were a focus of his written commentary and books.

In his book Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life, he states that his commitment to religion led to his conservative political outlook.

His first major work on slang, Slang Today and Yesterday, appeared in 1933, and his well-known Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English followed in 1937.

* A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.

An artist who excels in drawing is referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman.

A drafter, draftsperson, or draughtsman is a person who makes a drawing ( technical or otherwise ).

He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

On his 40th birthday, Tom Good is no longer able to take his job seriously and gives up work as a draughtsman for a company that makes plastic toys for breakfast cereal packets.

In a 1914 review of The Book of Pleasure, the critic ( again anonymous ) seems resigned to bewilderment, " It is impossible for me to regard Mr. Spare's drawings otherwise than as diagrams of ideas which I have quite failed to unravel ; I can only regret that a good draughtsman limits the scope of his appeal ".

As a draughtsman of architecture, Méryon was complete ; his sympathy with its various styles was broad, and his work on its various styles unbiased and of equal perfection -- a point in which it is curious to contrast him with J. M. W.

David Hockney, OM, CH, RA, ( born 9 July 1937 ) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London.

The painting St. Jerome in the Desert ( 1500 or 1506 ) ( Louvre, Paris ) shows his youthful inexperience as a draughtsman, however the dramatic rocky landscape is accentuated by the red garment of the saint.

Moyes ' father, David Snr is a scout at Everton and previously a coach at Drumchapel Amateurs where Moyes began his career, his full-time occupation was a draughtsman and college lecturer.

He is the son of a Polish draughtsman.

He had many pupils, of whom the following is an incomplete list: William Atkinson ; W. Blogg ; H. Brown ; Joseph Dixon ( perhaps a son of the draughtsman ); John Foster, junior of Liverpool ; J. M. Gandy ; C. Humfrey ; Henry Kitchen ; W. Sanderson ; R. Smith ; Thomas and John Westmacott ; M. Wynn ; and his sons Benjamin and Philip Wyatt.

He is universally regarded as one of the greatest figures in the history of graphic art, because he made etchings and woodcuts as well as engravings and was a prolific draughtsman.

Krems is the hometown of Martin Johann Schmidt, called " Kremserschmidt ", the leading painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Austrian late Baroque.

" At the same time, however, Farr believed that Land of the Soviets contained " plates of the highest quality where the freedom and confidence of line is proof of Hergé's outstanding ability as a draughtsman.

He cites the examples of the “ architect, the sculptor, the painter, draughtsman, ceramist, and decorative artist ” who in spite of her / his “ creative impulse ” is ruled by the discipline, “ always subjected to the skill and proficiency of the forming hand.

Longhi is well known as a draughtsman, whose drawings were often done for their own sake, rather than as studies for paintings.

By the 1880s Bosse is employed as a draughtsman and cartographer with the Army Corps of Engineers at Rock Island, Illinois.

The church saw the death, in 1821, of the antiquarian draughtsman Charles Alfred Stothard who was killed on falling while making a tracing from a window: his tombstone is in the churchyard.

Little is known of his youth, but he was employed as a draughtsman commanding the Engineer's Office at Chatham, and later in an Ordnance Survey as Land Agent and Surveyor.

Anton Lehmden ( born January 2, 1929 in Nitra, Slovakia ) is an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

Wolfgang Hutter ( born December 13, 1928, Vienna, Austria ) is a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and stage designer.