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  Guerrilla warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While the American Revolutionary War is often thought of as a guerrilla war, guerrilla tactics were uncommon, and almost all of the battles involved conventional set-piece battles.
As the war progressed, southern influence weakened, and the northern grip was strengthened.
Guerilla burlesque, a style of burlesque performance that involves descending upon audiences, uninvited.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guerilla_war   (9500 words)

  
 Guerilla Warfare
Guerilla warfare tactics often rely on isolating smaller units of the larger occupying force so as to attack parts of the larger force by ambush.
In many areas of the world, guerilla warfare is practiced by local groups against government forces, and is especially effective in areas with a rugged natural topography or areas of dense vegetation (e.g., forest or jungle) that provide natural hiding places from which to stage guerilla operations.
A key element in defining guerilla forces as opposed to other types of forces or movements involves the general principle that guerilla forces are generally accepted—in fact often supported and sheltered—by local populations.
www.espionageinfo.com /Gu-In/Guerilla-Warfare.html   (802 words)

  
 Guerrilla Warfare - History Forum
The revolutionary war in Cuba was started by the survivers of the Grama landing, (less than 20men), attacking, and killing the garison of a small secluded police station.
Guerilla warfare is as tricky a term to define as terrorist.
Indeed, the Roman war with the Celtibers, which went on for years, almost lost by Q.Fulvius Nobilior, Marcellus, Lucullus and Mancinus, was won by Scipio, who was known among Celtibers and Carthagineans for his honesty and nobility and managed to deserve respect of the enemies.
www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=3248   (2652 words)

  
 Terrorism and Asymmetrical Warfare International and Regional Implications
It can be a war between a state and a group of diehard terrorists, or committed patriots who are seeking their legitimate rights by armed struggle.
In this asymmetric war the weaker is the loser.
Both terrorism and guerilla wars are asymmetric warfare, but terrorism is distinguished from guerilla warfare by deliberate attacks on innocent persons, and the separation of the victims from the ultimate goal.
www.defencejournal.com /2002/february/terrorism.htm   (4096 words)

  
 How to Beat Guerillas
Guerillas cannot afford to be constantly on the run, they have not got the resources (food, bases, medical facilities) to keep at it.
The guerillas are fighting for economic reasons and you want as many of them as possible to know that you have a solution to their money problems.
The guerillas are always a minority of the population and there is ample opportunity to win the loyalty and gratitude of those neutral civilians.
www.strategypage.com /dls/articles2002/20020611.asp   (2091 words)

  
 Middle East Institute: Policy Brief
Guerilla warfare as historically understood is a complex and rich form of warfare that has been practiced since time immemorial and continues to be practiced widely at present and about which an enormous amount has been written by historians and practitioners.6
Nevertheless, advantage in war requires being a step or more ahead of one's foe, so it is imperative that the U.S. prepare actively for the prospect of an uglier guerilla war precisely in order to head it off and defeat it should it break out.
The most detailed analysis of guerilla wars is to be found in Robert Asprey, War in the Shadows: The Guerilla in History, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994.
www.mideasti.org /articles/doc89.html   (8937 words)

  
 December 21, 2003 - Iraq Tactics: The Israeli Model versus The French Model
Guerilla wars are usually wars in which the outcome matters an incredible amount for one side and not nearly as much for the other.
The war they're fighting is often very far from home and very far from the actual national interests of their own countries.
In the run-up to the war we were told about the weapons of mass destruction and how they posed a grave threat to us, and we had to act - in self-defense.
apavlik0.tripod.com /id193.html   (2664 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power: Books: Max Boot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Boot tracks various "small wars" during the rise of America's global power from the Barbary Wars (1801-1805, 1815) until the application of the "Powell Doctrine" during the Gulf War in the 1990s.
Thirty years later, as the war Viet Nam continued, it became obvious (at least to some) that the lessons to be learned from The Small Wars Manual may have been validated but, for whatever reasons, were either ignored or forgotten by President Johnson and others in his administration.
We tend to think of undeclared police action wars to be a rather new phenomena of the mid 20th century for America.
www.amazon.com /Savage-Wars-Peace-Small-American/dp/0465007201   (2996 words)

  
 The Unbeatable Weapon: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The war on 'terror' was being won; the world had become a safer place; three quarters of the senior cadres of Al Qaeda who were at large three years ago were now either dead or behind bars.
Guerilla war -> failure of the military to beat it -> political defeat -> negotiations with terrorists -> political concessions.
Politics defeated the insurgency in Ireland and this case proves that guerilla insurgency is not an unbeatable weapon as you claimed.
www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00003870   (6673 words)

  
 Killarmy :: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars :: Wu-Tang Records/Priority Records
There have been civil wars, guerilla wars, holy wars, gender wars, cold wars, world wars, trade wars, wars on drugs, wars of independence, wars as short as the Six-Day War, or as long as the Hundred Years War.
It's the war waging in many inner city neighborhoods across the United States, a war nourrished by poverty and unemployment, by drug abuse and repressive law enforcement, by gang rivalries and lacking gun control.
Too often, these war reports came from a soldier's perspective, not a general's, leaving the listener wondering who was at war with who, and why.
www.rapreviews.com /archive/BTTL_silentweapons.html   (1191 words)

  
 Small Wars Center of Excellence
During the early years of the twentieth century, the Corps was widely viewed as the nation's overseas police and initial response force.
The results of these efforts were encapsulated in The Small Wars Manual (SWM), published in final form in 1940 and a true classic of military science that remains refreshingly relevant today as the foundation of much current thinking and doctrine.
Small Wars are conceived in uncertainty, are conducted often with precarious responsibility and doubtful authority, under indeterminate orders lacking specific instructions.
www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil /sw_history.asp   (326 words)

  
 Azure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A closer look at three important cases–the French war in Algeria, the American war in Vietnam, and Israel’s war in southern Lebanon–reveals that the Achilles’ heel of those powerful democracies was not a lack of staying power on the part of the public, but instead, enfeebled decision-making on the part of their leaders.
Public support for the war and for the president gradually fell in comparison to the beginning of the war, but at the end of 1967 and the beginning of 1968, a clear majority of Americans still felt that Westmoreland’s performance was satisfactory, the war was being properly managed, and that it even should be escalated.
The fact that support for escalating the war was far higher than support for the president suggests that it was the administration’s lack of clarity and resolve, not the war itself, that led to its downfall.
www.azure.org.il /magazine/magazine.asp?id=297   (11533 words)

  
 Cossacks - European Wars: Press-Release
The most noteworthy are: Thirty Years War (1618-1648), the English revolution, the English and Dutch wars, the War for Spanish Succession, the Northern war, the War for Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, the Ukrainian independence war (1648-1657), sea wars against pirates, etc.
The war resulted in a certain period of Ukrainian independence, which eventually was followed by total absorption of Ukraine by its former ally Russia.
Russia was victorious in multiple wars against Swedes and Turks for outlets to the sea, while its opponents tried to expand their territories to Russia.
www.cossacks.de /english/cossacks/index.shtml   (2174 words)

  
 BRC Resources: Abolishing War UPDATE - Part 1
Terrorism resembles such wars in that you have parties to a conflict that are very asymmetrical.
In the traditional national wars of liberation, you had an imperial power that was much more wealthy and had much more powerful military forces than the people striving for liberation.
There are some guerilla wars and wars of liberation where people are fighting against their own government in a civil war.
www.brc21.org /ebrf_p1.html   (4568 words)

  
 Times & Seasons » On the Significance of Mormon Wars
The Utah War had its origins in some federally appointed officials who fled Utah and reported to the President Buchannan that the Mormons were in open rebellion against the United States.
Knowing way too little about the Mormon wars, the only thing I can say I feel about this, is that the people were attacked on their territory by an “enemy” army, and thus were justified in fighting back, as simple as it may sound….
Mormons managed to find a workable relationship with their “enemy,” forced a limited guerilla war to sustain at least many of their perceived rights (at least up until 1894) and did so with minimal violence.
www.timesandseasons.org /?p=987   (1780 words)

  
 The Free Liberal: Forward into the Past: Proxy Wars and American Security
All throughout the Cold War years the Western democracies were tweaked, poked, prodded, slammed, and bled of both treasure and blood.
The only time this war by proxy nearly blew up in the Soviets face was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
The CIA sponsored resistance groups of their own in the quasi-Marxist state of Nicaragua, and sponsored it's own front groups in the guerilla wars in El Salvador and Soviet occupied Afghanistan.
www.freeliberal.com /archives/001169.html   (870 words)

  
 Week 2: War/Terror
War is a violation of human and social nature.
Wars could be modified, controlled, but could not and even should not be eliminated as a social phenomenon.
Modern technologically supported wars (as well as futuristic nuclear, space, electronic and so on wars) are a "natural" and unavoidable companion of a scientific and technological progress.
ic.ucsc.edu /~rlipsch/pol70/Week2.html   (3635 words)

  
 Massacre of Civilians Was Inevitable
But the soldiers' punishment should be mitigated by the fact they were sent into a dirty guerilla war fought in the middle of a largely hostile civilian population in which such atrocities are inevitable.
I have witnessed this same pattern in every guerilla war I covered or observed: Algeria, Vietnam, Kashmir, Angola, Namibia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Chechnya, Kurdistan, South Africa, Kosovo and the Palestinian territories.
Any army sent into a dirty guerilla war like Iraq or Afghanistan can be expected to become corrupted and slaughter civilians.
www.commondreams.org /views06/0618-23.htm   (714 words)

  
 American State Militias? - Page 3 - Whistle Stopper Political Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Less than 1% of guerilla actions in all of history have resulted in wins by the conventional force....and it seems like every time the lame, nonsensical excuse is that the conventional force COULD have won if they had been more brutal or fielded more men.
This forces the guerillas to travel and (if you have done things correctly) expose themselves prior to and at the time of their attack.
Conventional wars turn into guerilla wars because overwhelming force is not used from the start.
www.whistlestopper.com /forum/showthread.php?p=891375   (4017 words)

  
 Cold War timeline (with significant reinterpretations) from CNN <http://www   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With 20 million dead, USSR fears another war and expands its takeover of “satellite” states in Eastern Europe.
Historians now say he was poisoned by Party leaders because he was about to start new purges and a nuclear war.
On October 28, the Soviets agree to remove the missiles, defusing one of the most dangerous confrontations of the Cold War.
web.uvic.ca /~dmillar/Hist_210_US_history/Cold_War_outline.htm   (1258 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Thoughts on guerilla war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I know guerilla wars were not exactly the norm in the EU time period, but I was thinking that some sort of (daily, please
I think the Irish used this some as well, and in the south the Americans did in the rev war, even if that is at the very tail end of the period.
Decreasing your stability would have a sense if you'r being conquered in a war and you want to "liberate" some provinces by using the rebels.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=246200   (619 words)

  
 Massacre of Civilians Was Inevitable by Eric Margolis
Iraq and the campaign in Afghanistan are just like typical 20th-century colonial guerilla wars.
The simple answer is that the U.S. Army and Marines should never have been sent to wage a neo-colonial war of pacification in Iraq – or Afghanistan.
Eric Margolis [send him mail], contributing foreign editor for Sun National Media Canada, is the author of War at the Top of the World.
www.lewrockwell.com /margolis/margolis35.html   (588 words)

  
 Flatpack flashpoint | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Violent incidents of mob rule are not uncommon, but tend to occur in times of scarcity or panic, over food or water rather than discount vouchers.
Historians may look back on the Ikea outbreaks as the precursor of fundamentalist consumerism, marking the start of guerrilla shopping wars as the nation state weakens.
This is the sort of dystopian future portrayed in films such as Soylent Green, where every consumer good is fought over.
www.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,,1410454,00.html   (372 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Guerrilla Wars: Cuba, Vietnam and Afghanistan: Video: People's Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The turning point of the war, the Tet offensive of early 1968, is used as an example of how guerrilla tactics decisively turned public opinion in America against the war.
In a reverse scenario, a war in which the guerrillas were anti-Communists, the long and costly struggle following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is documented through startling films of ambushes and in interviews with battle-weary veterans of the Red Army.
In these "people's wars," the guerrillas drew strength from the local population which furnished recruits and supplies, shelter and underground intelligence.
www.amazon.com /Guerrilla-Wars-Cuba-Vietnam-Afghanistan/dp/B00000F0PI   (874 words)

  
 Long-Suffering Lori
The 80s was a tumultuous decade in Central America, seeing civil wars, guerilla wars, “counter-insurgency” wars, military juntas, and of course Reagan’s (or maybe Bush Sr.’s and Olie North’s) illegal war in Nicaragua.
During the peace talks, she was the private secretary of a commander of the guerilla group Farabundo Martí National Liberation.
The case against Lori is mostly based on her association with members of the MRTA, and not on involvement in violence or terrorism.
web.mit.edu /thistle/www/v13/4/lori.html   (2473 words)

  
 American Forum - Lessons, Compare Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One of the most commonly used critical thinking skills in social studies is that of comparing and contrasting.
Have students read the poems Christmas and Guerilla War orally.
Upon completing the chart the students should be able to make some generalizations about guerilla wars.
www.globaled.org /curriculum/viet4.html   (171 words)

  
 AV #83922 - Video Cassette - People’s Century 1900 - 1999: 22. 1973 Guerilla Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The success of guerilla warfare tactics in a range of twentieth century conflicts are described in this episode.
The 1958 takeove r of Cuba by Fidel Castro, the Vietnam War and the battles between the Soviet Union and the Afghan Mujahideen from 1978 to 1988 are analyzed.
Produced and directed by Bill Treharne Jones; narrated by Alfre Woodard.
www.sfsu.edu /~avitv/avcatalog/83922.htm   (110 words)

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