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  Urban guerrilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many have been on the left-wing of the political spectrum (especially in Latin America), claiming to fight for the "liberation of their people"; more recently, urban guerilla warfare has become common in the Middle East, often waged by Islamist or nationalist forces that would be considered on the right-wing of the political spectrum.
The urban guerrilla phenomenon is essentially one of modernity and industrialised society.
Urban guerrilla oftens forces a regular army to enter a city and engage in urban warfare against the guerrillas, often resulting in heavy casualties to all parties involved and great damage to property and civilian infrastructure.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urban_guerrilla   (411 words)

  
 LIC and Counter-Guerilla Strategy.
Guerilla strategy will often be to make the force fight in areas where such assets cannot be used :-difficult terrain or areas with a large number of non-combatants.
Logically, ultimate defeat of the guerilla hinges on alienating the the guerilla from the population.
The doctrine of the guerilla is to flee from the strong and attack the weak.
www.angelfire.com /art/enchanter/strategy1.html   (4975 words)

  
 You Can't Blow up a Social Relationship: The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Guerillaism relies upon the capitalist media for much of its impact, presenting political acts as spectacles divorced from the day-to-day lives of ordinary people (reducing them to passive spectators) while providing the corporate-controlled media with a perfect opportunity to frighten the public into the "protective' arms of the State.
In South America the increased use of urban guerilla warfare was largely a result of the failure of the rural strategy which had become obvious by the sixties.
Proponents of terrorism and guerillaism are to be opposed because their actions are vanguardist and authoritarian, because their ideas are wrong and unrelated to the results of their actions, because killing cannot be justified, and finally because their actions produce either repression with nothing in return or an authoritarian regime.
www.radio4all.org /redblack/books/see_sharp1_social.html   (8800 words)

  
 FM 90-8 Appendix B
In any event, the urban guerrilla lives in a community that is friendly to him or, as a minimum, is too frightened to withhold its support or inform on him.
The urban guerrilla can operate more boldly than his rural counterpart as reflected by his tactics: the sniper complements the more conventional ambush and often replaces it; explosive devices may be used either as instruments against the community or more selectively against individuals or groups.
The urban guerrilla works alone or in small cells, and his tactics are different from those of his rural counterpart.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/policy/army/fm/90-8/Appb.htm   (687 words)

  
 THKP-C/HDÖ: Armed Propaganda and Guerrilla Warfare
Because the rural guerilla is the germ of the People's Army, an organic compound between city and rural guerilla must be made, and a land guerrilla war cannot be led also by a handful splinter, disorganized and from few militant ones existing guerilla group on the country.
Target of such a policy is not it to create and in shortest time maximal internal messages implement a urban guerilla, target of this politics is supported it, the fight of the rural guerilla, of the urban guerilla to lead.
That leads finally to smashing the urban guerilla, as the examples of Brazil and Venezuela in the sixties and that show the Tupamaros in the seventies, when the there urban guerillaeinheiten came into this vicious circle.
www.kurtuluscephesi.com /dil/guerrillaing.html   (2531 words)

  
 Baader-Meinhof: Terms - Urban Guerilla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
"Urban Guerrilla" was the term that the left wing terrorists of German called themselves.
The term "Urban Guerrilla" was coined to contrast with the firmly established concept of rural guerrillas whose style of warfare had been utilized for centuries by groups as diverse as the American forces in the Revolutionary War and Chairman Mao's forces in the 1930s.
The difference was that urban guerrillas were to take their wars out of the jungles and mountains, and bring it directly to the population centers.
www.baader-meinhof.com /terminology/terms/urbanguerrilla.html   (137 words)

  
 Remy Ourdan | Urban Guerilla Warfare Comes to Baghdad
Wednesday July 7's guerilla attack targeted a National Guard (Iraqi Army) road block at the same time the government was revealing its "National Security Law" offering exceptional powers to Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
Moreover, we learned Wednesday that two other guerilla attacks took place the evening before, one killing five Iraqi soldiers in Taji, near Baghdad, the other killing four American Marines in the Al-Anbar province, to the west of the Iraqi capital.
The threat of car bombs and rampant criminality has poisoned their lives for the last year, but at least they remained safe from urban guerilla warfare.
www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/5159/printer   (573 words)

  
 The MOUT Homepage
While the basic patrolling principles are relevant to urban patrolling, conducting this type of operation has led to the establishment of six urban patrolling principles.
Urban patrols may encounter hundreds of danger areas during the execution of a routine patrol.
In the urban environment, areas that are treated as danger zones are those points within the city that pose a major threat to the patrol.
www.specialoperations.com /mout/moutpoi34.html   (3813 words)

  
 Rebel Urban Guerilla
Rebel Urban Guerillas are one of the common branches of the Rebel Alliance's SpecForces.
Rebel Urban Guerillas are experts in exploiting the confines of constricted urban terrain to their advantage, such as the streets, buildings, and sewers.
The Urban Guerillas are transported to the targeted planet, from which they begin recruitment and training of the local inhabitants.
www.galacticempiredatabank.com /RebUrbanGuerrilla.html   (265 words)

  
 Urban Guerilla Warfare
For a full frontal deluge of urban decay, one has only to turn to such critically acclaimed movies as "Do the Right Thing" or "Boyz 'N the Hood." View these movies and statistics that show that your family has a one in four chance of experiencing violent crime this year seem normal.
The youth from Harmony Bible have acquired a passion for urban evangelism which should inspire anyone who is intimidated by the bleak urban moonscape.
Even a partial chronicle of the pathologies affecting urban America underscores the complexity of the challenge facing any church group that takes seriously its charge to be salt and light.
www.adventures.org /articles/urbanwarfare.asp   (1837 words)

  
 Urban Warfare Considerations; Understanding and Combating Irregular and Guerilla Forces During A Conventional War
Theorists believed that guerilla warfare was either obsolete and that the only way one could achieve victory was by fighting with a conventional army; or that it was the only way that one could obtain victory in certain situations.
The guerilla bands are best suited for these types of operation as they are much more mobile and quick largely due to their smaller size.
However, he also acknowledged the fact that the territory on which they were fighting on was propitious for guerilla type warfare; thus he meshed the two types of warfare together in order to get the maximum efficiency out of his armies.
www.emergency.com /2003/urban_warfare_considerations.htm   (2942 words)

  
 Urban Guerilla Cartoons
Urban Guerilla cartoon 1 - catalog reference sbo0267
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 Urban Guerilla Warfare: - A JoeUser Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
America’s first major encounter with jungle guerilla warfare was of course, Vietnam, where the vulnerability of conventional forces to a guerilla force was experienced and our President then, LBJ was able to marshal his forces for a truce.
Here, urban guerilla tactics,like closed-quarters fighting, were born and bred and later imitated in many parts of the world.
A guerilla force always assumes that their enemy has the superior number of men, superior number of armor and firepower.
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 totse.com | Declassified Army and CIA Manuals Used in Latin America
Even electoral activity is suspect: The insurgents "can resort to subverting the government by means of elections in which the insurgents cause the replacement of an unfriendly government official to one favorable to their cause"; "insurgent activity" can include funding campaigns and participating in political races as candidates.
In order to achieve a permanent victory, the internal defense operations should be planned with the goal of attacking the insurgent organization before the guerillas begin their operations, an attack which includes the secret subversive elements as well as their military arm once the movement reaches the second phase.
The guerilla forces, in general, begin to distribute propaganda of various types, in which they include the approximate hour and date of an attack about to take place.
www.totse.com /en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/162408.html   (7079 words)

  
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For those who have studied guerilla warfare and unconventional combat forces there is a striking commonality between the basic affinity group represented by the typical urban street gang, of whatever stage of organizational development, and guerilla combat operations.
A gang may use "guerilla tactics" but most gangs in America today certainly could not, in their present form, be regarded as a guerrilla army.
Oppenheimer (1969) was one of the few authors on urban guerilla warfare to at least address the unique nature of gangs and social conflict.
www.ngcrc.com /introcha.html   (13632 words)

  
 Another hit- from Guyana: Land of Six Peoples
Dirty little old rundown Georgetown, with its shanty-town like vendor character, crumbling infrastructure and "culture of lawlessness" (to quote Mayor Hammie), is still the seat of government, main commercial enterprises and port-of-entry.
You don't need to be a student of Political Science or Political Guerilla warfare to appreciate the techniques born out of the above general guidelines.
Note finally, that even as investors shy away and the economy is depressed, putting the government under further endless pressure, the destabilisers can claim victory.
www.landofsixpeoples.com /news/ns105257.htm   (796 words)

  
 VPRO 3VOOR12 JOURNALISM: Urban guerilla: de strijd om de allochtone luisteraar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
VPRO 3VOOR12 JOURNALISM: Urban guerilla: de strijd om de allochtone luisteraar
Urban guerilla: de strijd om de allochtone luisteraar
Het is voor ons vooral een zegen dat we goede concurrenten krijgen zodat de consument beter wordt bediend; er is heus plaats voor meerdere spelers in het veld."
3voor12.vpro.nl /3voor12/magazines/news/index.jsp?portals=2534202&magazines=10719222&news=17542008   (528 words)

  
 Xbox.com :: Freedom Fighters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rise through the ranks of the resistance movement to recruit and lead an army of urban guerillas in the battle for New York City against the occupying Red Army.
Travel the subways and sewers through the belly of the city, and emerge to fight against overwhelming odds with an arsenal of automatic weapons and other tools of the revolution.
Intense third-person combat: Gritty, urban guerilla warfare scenarios range from small sabotage missions to large battles in which you must conquer enemy installations.
www.xbox.com /en-AU/freedomfighters   (336 words)

  
 Mad Guerilla Brigade - Urban imaging software released to west coast playas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Senior corporate officials unveiled the new software at a launch party at the company headquarters in Minneapolis today.
We've seen a dramatic rise in the use of imaging software in west coast urban areas like the Watts and Compton areas of Los Angeles county, California," described McDugan.
"Ever since the early days of the urban 'Photoshizzop Warz" between the Bloods and the Crips, when rival gang leaders started compositing images of each other in rival bids to stake their claims as masters of virtual territorial dominance, the increase in usage of imaging products has been off the motherfucking hook, yo!"
www.madguerillabrigade.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=35&mode=&order=0&thold=0   (528 words)

  
 Tha Biz.Com-Urban Entertainment & Pop Culture 'Zine-Guerilla Black Interview
Guerilla Black is one new rapper that everyone is talking about.
Guerilla Black has been travelling all over the country promoting his album Guerilla City and his second single "You're The One" featuring Mario Winans should be coming your way soon.
I have to say that my interview with Guerilla Black was more like a relaxed conversation, some of the stuff didn't even make the interview.
www.thabiz.com /guerilla_black_interview.htm   (986 words)

  
 The Urban Guerilla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
That is where we come from: from the isolation of the suburban home, the desolate concrete public housing, the cell-prisons, asylums and special prison sections.
We come to the guerilla organization brain-washed through the media, consumerism, physical punishment and the ideology of non-violence; from depression, sickness, declassification, insult and humiliation of the individual, of all exploited people under imperialism.
Eventually we perceive the misery of each of us as constituting the necessity of liberation from imperialism, the necessity of anti-imperialist struggle.
www.sevenseven.com /debeer/ulrike.html   (229 words)

  
 Indymedia UK - Urban Guerilla Warfare in Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The BBC reported that there is fear by the military that the rebels will resume control once the overstretched security forces are redeployed.
Correspondents say the urban guerilla warfare marks a new phase in Colombia's 38-year-old civil war which has generally been confined to the countryside.
Uribe ordered the crackdown by more than 3,000 soldiers and police as part of his ongoing policy priority to destroy the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest rebel organisation which aims to establish a socialist state.
www6.indymedia.org.uk /en/2002/10/44110.html   (464 words)

  
 Fighting in the Streets: A Manual of Urban Guerilla Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He begins with a comparison and contrast between urban and rural guerillas which lacked any depth.
As a handbook of urban warfare, I am rather less enthusiastic.
I bought this book because, a writer myself, I was interested in urban warfare, not because I really believed I was going to need the information herein soon.
www.enotalone.com /books/094263747X.html   (825 words)

  
 Direct Action: Memoirs Of An Urban Guerilla
Ann Hansen is good at portraying the range of issues that the five participants in Direct Action had attempted to address.
There was not a sudden leap from a desire for social change to a participation in urban guerrilla warfare.
Rather, we are invited to share in a process that helps to reveal why people who were deeply committed to a just and ecologically sound world would accept the risks of both their freedom and lives and the lives of others as a step towards their ideals bearing fruit.
www.blackstarreview.com /rev-0090.html   (1067 words)

  
 One week after the "transfer of sovereignty", urban guerilla warfare comes to Baghdad (8 July 04) :: Radio ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One week after the "transfer of sovereignty", urban guerilla warfare comes to Baghdad (8 July 04) :: Radio Free USA :: Unflinching and unembedded independent news
News : One week after the "transfer of sovereignty", urban guerilla warfare comes to Baghdad (8 July 04)
One week after the "transfer of sovereignty", urban guerilla warfare comes to Baghdad (8 July 04)
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 Pathway to Nihilism | CounterOrder.com
A great [true] urban guerilla warfare story but with a tragic ending.
(2004) is a documentary of a bus hijacking that explores the causes and consequences of violence, poverty and social injustice in urban Brazil.
The Bus 174 hijacking forced the Brazilian public to confront issues they would otherwise prefer to ignore such as police corruption, a culture of violence and the power of the camera to distort as well as record events.
www.counterorder.com /list.html   (1473 words)

  
 'Fighting in the Streets: Manual of Urban Guerilla Warfare' by from The Portsmouth Chorus.
Fighting in the Streets: Manual of Urban Guerilla Warfare,.
Urbano does a good job of explaning how to produce home-made weapons and explosives, but his description of urban tactics strike me a simple and not very fascinating.
Click for similar Electronics about 'Fighting in the Streets: Manual of Urban Guerilla Warfare' at our partner Psychohelp.co.uk...
www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music-cd/094263747X   (264 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - guerilla, Records, CDs, Non-Fiction Books items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Guerilla War Vol 1 and 2 by H.W.Wilson 1902  
Guerilla Days In Ireland Irish War of Independence IRA.
Guerilla Black "You're the one" RARE promo single.NR.
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 Guerilla Urban Marketing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Guerilla Urban Marketing and "got reps?" is looking for new Marketing Reps across the country.
Submit your contact information as well as your location so we can consider you for upcoming projects.
Check out the live events or follow these links to other online resources.
www.guerillaurbanmarketing.com   (301 words)

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