He claimed to have 2,000 guerrillas ready to wage a protracted war.

But those students had just emerged from a protracted war against what they saw as a tyrannical monarchy, and were therefore intensely suspicious of centralised power.

The costs of the protracted war in both money and manpower were great.

The world had just come through a terrible and protracted war, one initiated by false philosophies working on ignorance through massive control of free speech.

This was the strategy of protracted war, that tightly integrated political and military factors, and slowly weakened opposition over time by an attritional campaign.