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  Guerrilla warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guerrilla warfare is one of the oldest forms of asymmetric warfare.
While "asymmetric warfare" is the military term for guerrilla tactics, it is often referred to in the pejorative as "terrorism".
In general, this type of irregular warfare was conducted in the hinterland of the Border States (Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and northwestern Virginia), and was marked by a vicious neighbor against neighbor quality.
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 GUERILLA WARFARE
Guerrilla warfare as a phase of war must be ruled by all of these; but besides, because of its special aspects, a series of corollary laws must also be recognized in order to carry it forward.
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression.
Taking account of the possibilities of development of guerrilla warfare, which is transformed with the increase in the operating potential of the guerrilla band into a war of positions, this type of warfare, despite its special character, is to be considered as an embryo, a prelude, of the other.
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 PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE
Guerrilla warfare is born and grows in the political environment; in the constant combat to dominate that area of political mentality that is inherent to all human beings and which collectively constitutes the "environment" in which guerrilla warfare moves, and which is where precisely its victory or failure is defined.
This means that a guerilla armed unit in a rural town will not give the impression that arms are their strength over the peasants, but rather that they are the strength of the peasants against the Sandinista government of repression.
The tactical effort in guerrilla warfare is directed at the weaknesses of the enemy and at destroying their military resistance capacity, and should be parallel to a psychological effort to weaken and destroy their sociopolitical capacity at the same time.
www.fas.org /irp/cia/guerilla.htm   (12958 words)

  
 guerrilla warfare on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When guerrillas obey the laws of conventional warfare they are entitled, if captured, to be treated as ordinary prisoners of war; however, they are often executed by their captors.
The tactics of guerrilla warfare stress deception and ambush, as opposed to mass confrontation, and succeed best in an irregular, rugged, terrain and with a sympathetic populace, whom guerrillas often seek to win over by propaganda, reform, and terrorism.
Guerrilla warfare, democracy, and the fate of the confederacy.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/g1/guerrill.asp   (350 words)

  
 Tilting at Windmills - Iraq: Guerilla Warfare and the Continuation of Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unwillingness to cooperate with the enemy (often because retribution from guerillas is certain) is all that is needed from the rest of the population.
Guerillas in urban warfare who have the support of the population can do this because the support of the population means that they have superior intelligence of enemy movements.
Guerillas aren’t impossible to defeat but there is only one way to do so other than in specific battles; by removing the support they have from the population.
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 Understanding Guerrilla Warfare
To compensate for this weakness, the philosophy of guerrilla warfare is to harass and weaken the enemy.
In all these phases of guerrilla warfare, some of the common tactics are the dispersion of guerrilla forces, the night attack as a psychological weapon against the enemy, the emphasis on attacking isolated forces, and the use of the local populace for support.
Guerrilla warfare is conducted in three phases depending on the organization and strength of the guerrilla and the comparable strength of the enemy.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1990/GJ.htm   (3515 words)

  
 BELLUM - MAO TSE TUNG - ON GUERILLA WARFARE
Guerilla warfare based on the principles we have mentioned and carried out over a vast extent of territory in which communications are inconvenient will contribute tremendously towards ultimate defeat of the Japanese and consequent emancipation of the Chinese people.
The fact that revolutionary guerrilla warfare is based on the masses of the people does not in itself mean that the organization of guerrilla units is impossible in a war of counter-revolutionary character.
The strategy of guerrilla warfare is manifestly unlike that employed in orthodox operations, as the basic tactic of the former is constant activity and movement.
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 Che Guevara Guerilla Warfare
Warfare on the plain is always the result of an advance by the guerrilla bands consequent on their being strengthened and on changes in conditions; this implies an increase of experience on the part of the guerrilla and with it the possibility of using that experience to advantage.
In this type of warfare the government generally establishes a blockade of the region, and the peasants who have not fled must go to buy their basic foods at establishments located outside the zones of guerrilla action.
But the characteristics of no man's land in guerrilla warfare are that it is inhabited by a civil population, and that this civil population collaborates in a certain measure with either of the two sides, even though in an overwhelming majority with the insurrectionary band.
social.chass.ncsu.edu /slatta/hi216/documents/che.htm   (20827 words)

  
 Guerrilla -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish (from "guerra" meaning (The waging of armed conflict against an enemy) war) used to describe small combat groups.
Guerrilla warfare is one of the oldest forms of (Click link for more info and facts about asymmetric warfare) asymmetric warfare.
John Keats wrote about an American guerilla leader in World War 2: Colonel Wendell Fertig, who in 1942 organized a large force of guerillas who harassed the Japanese occupation forces on the Phillipine Island of Mindanao all the way up to the liberation of the Phillipines in 1945.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guerrilla.htm   (2634 words)

  
 "GUERILLA WARFARE: A method"
Since then in America the problems of guerrilla warfare have become a question for theoretical discussions for the continent's progressive parties, and whether it is possible or expedient to use it, has become the subject of head-on controversial discussions.
In the course of polemics those who advocate guerrilla warfare are often accused of forgetting mass struggle, almost as if guerrilla warfare and mass struggle were opposed to each other.
When they are confronted with the irregular warfare of peasants based on their own home grounds, they become absolutely powerless; they lose ten men for every revolutionary fighter who falls.
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 Guerilla warfare - SourceWatch
According to one writer (http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/guerilla.htm) in his "manual for the training of guerrillas in psychological operations," guerilla warfare is "essentially a political war.
Therefore, its area of operations exceeds the territorial limits of conventional warfare, to penetrate the political entity itself...
U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990 (http://www.statecraft.org/)."
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 Guerilla warfare - Cultural Guerrilla Warfare in Tamil Eelam:Aspects of Tamil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guerilla warfare - Cultural Guerrilla Warfare in Tamil Eelam:Aspects of Tamil
Study of US guerilla warfare, counter insurgency, and counter terrorism, from 1940 to 1990.
Cultural Guerrilla Warfare in Tamil Eelam Aspects of Tamil Resistance a `'iterary and aesthetic guerrilla warfare' came to be, whose instances of
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 CIA Guerilla Warfare Manual
The tactical effort in guerrilla warfare is directed at the weaknesses of the enemy and at destroying their military resistance capacity, and should be parallel to a psychological effort to weaken and destroy their
The leaders of the guerrilla warfare classify their slogans in accordance with the circumstances with the aim of mobilizing the masses in a wide scale of activities and at the highest emotional level.
In a revolutionary movement of guerrilla warfare, the mass concentrations and protest demonstrations are the principle essential for the destruction of the enemy structures.
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 Guerilla Warfare
Guerilla warfare is much like free-for-all, but with teams added.
The criteria for removing a player or for them to reenter play may be different for each team (for example, you may have to return to your base).
Played like a normal guerilla warfare game (preferably with two teams), except that it is important to defend your team's designated base.
www.mindflare.com /water/games/guerilla.htm   (1551 words)

  
 warfare
An Anarchist Guerilla group is a band of equals and should treat one another with respect and affection.
Usually labeled as "terrorists", the urban guerilla differs from the traditional "fighting in the fields" guerrilla in their base of operations.
The urban guerilla band will never have the security that the "outdoor" guerrillas have, nor will they usually have the number of people involved in their day-to-day activities, still they will be able to maintain some sort of social ties to the outside world.
www.insurgentdesire.org.uk /warfare.htm   (4510 words)

  
 Guerrilla Warfare
Sun Tzu argued that all warfare involves the employing of one's strength to exploit the weakness of the enemy.
In the course of polemics, those who want to undertake guerrilla warfare are criticized for forgetting mass struggle, implying that guerrilla warfare and mass struggle are opposed to each other.
It was used, first of all, because guerrilla warfare is one expression of the mass struggle.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /VNguerrilla.htm   (2706 words)

  
 The Forsaken - Guerilla Warfare
This type of warfare is normally harder to master then 24 man army tactics.
The team is composed of no more then 8 members and all of them are required to know the area they are fighting in.
Knowing when to fight and when to run is key to this type of warfare.
home.pacifier.com /~marley/guerilla.html   (751 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Guerrilla Warfare: Che Guevara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One way that "Guerilla Warfare," can be considered is as a three point plan, with each text included in the book being a different part of the plan.
The first part is the main text of the book, and discusses the tactics of a guerilla that begins in the country and builds strength until being able to fight with the regular army in standard battles.
"Guerilla Warfare," is also an example of why the imperialistic and plutocratic government of the United States saw the need to neutralize Che.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803270755?v=glance   (1735 words)

  
 CSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One of the great students of Confederate partisan and guerrilla warfare, Virgil Carrington Jones, once wrote in his famous book Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders that the Southern partisans stumbled on to one of the secrets of modern warfare through their intuition and vigorous support of a resistance movement for occupied territory.
The debate on guerrilla warfare and partisan ranger units continued and it was not until 1862 that the Confederate Congress acted.
The Partisan Ranger Corps, on the other hand, was an organization which sought to injure the enemy by action seperate from that of their own main army, and by operating in the rear of, on the flanks of the enemy, and against his lines of communication.
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 Afro-American Guerilla Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guerilla warfare can be conducted in the country or in the city.
There is no neighborhood in any large city in the country where the people are not in a state of siege and the "guerilla" fighters have not left the rest crouching in fear and trembling.
The guerilla arm of the Afro-American people does not have to wait to build up a mature political party but may itself help become the starting point for such a party.
www.weisbord.org /AfroGuerilla.htm   (3937 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: On Guerilla Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Recognizing the fundamental disparity between agrarian and urban societies, Mao advocated unorthodox strategies that converted deficits into advantages: using intelligence provided by the sympathetic peasant population; substituting deception, mobility, and surprise for superior firepower; using retreat as an offensive move; and educating the inhabitants on the ideological basis of the struggle.
This radical new approach to warfare, waged in jungles and mountains by mobile guerrilla bands closely supported by local inhabitants, has been adopted by other revolutionary leaders from Ho Chi Minh to Che Guevara.
Twelve years later, the Nationalist Chinese were rousted from the mainland, and Mao consolidated his control of a new nation, having put his theories of revolutionary guerrilla warfare to the test.
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 Books : Guerilla Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ive read every book you could find in Amazon.com about guerilla warfare and improvised explosives, muntions, etc. and this book is the most informational and best written out of them all.
Not a how to book in guerilla warfare, but more a model of how to develop a guerilla band.
Guerrilla Warfare and a Message to the Tricontinental are Che's most important writings, detailing his ideas for international revolution by means of guerrilla warfare.
www.billclintonmemoir.com /Reviews/ItemId/0803270100/ReviewPage/6   (201 words)

  
 Theory of Guerilla Warfare
Used where to engage in conventional warfare would mean defeat.
Development of nuclear weapons meant that guerilla warfare was used as a ‘war by proxy’ btw the great powers.
Guerilla Warfare Against the French in Vietnam 1946-1954
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 Libertarian Guerilla Warfare
If this notion of violent warfare shocks or offends you, it is because you have not been able to stand off and, knowing what you are, see what a difference in KIND must mean.
If the concept of terrorism is to be a psychological-psychiatric concept rather than a merely legal-political concept, its study should include many politicians, military personnel, police, businessmen (particularly armaments manufacturers), scientists and technicians in addition to the skyjackers and urban guerrillas to whom the term is usually applied.
Imbuing fear into the minds of your enemy is a legitimate aim of warfare, thus terrorism is a valid tool of combat.
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 the RANT:: Guerilla Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kevin Drum has located an extremely interesting article providing the point of view of an anti-American guerilla leader on the ground in Iraq.
I on the other hand believe it seems reasonable on its face, but it does beg the question of the number of guerilla groups operating in Iraq.
When one considers the frequency and range of guerilla attacks in Iraq and weighs that against the guerilla leaders claim of controlling a group that is 200 strong, sited in the article, it then seems likely there are in fact several guerilla groups operating independently in Iraq.
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 Amazon.com: Books: On Guerrilla Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Considering his success as a practitioner of guerrilla warfare, one would have to be insane to ignore this work.
This book, in conjunction with Ho Chi Min's writings on the use of guerrilla warfare, is the absolute basic understanding of the Viet Nam War from back BEFORE the French Foreign Legion were fighting for their colony.
His recommendation to study guerrilla warfare in 1940 and again in 1961 was on the mark.
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 Small Wars Journal
"Maneuver warfare, often controversial and requiring operational and tactical innovation, poses perhaps the most important doctrinal questions currently facing the conventional military forces of the U.S. Its purpose is to defeat the enemy by disrupting the opponent's ability to react, rather than by physical destruction of forces.
Woodward is quick to note that he was tapped for the job because he happened to be the navy's closest flotilla commander at the time (in Gibraltar)--and confides that his superiors almost replaced him with a higher-ranking officer even as he led the task force into danger.
The Filipino nationalists transformed their resistance into a guerrilla warfare that varied so greatly from region to region in its organization, strategy, and tactics that early American attempts at centralization and nonmilitary pacification were useless.
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 Guerilla Warfare
Before the use of Guerilla warfare, both negotiations with the French and uprisings in the major cities failed.
Late 1956 a small group of guerillas landed in Cuba / most killed but survivors led by Castro established camp in a remote region of the island and began to recruit supporters.
Nature of terrain favored guerillas — US response was greater firepower.
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