Guerrillas
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility, to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military. Although the term "guerrilla warfare" was coined in the context of the Peninsular War in the 19th century, the tactical methods of guerrilla warfare have been in use since long before then. In the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu proposed the use of guerrilla-style tactics in The Art of War. The 3rd century BC Roman general Quintus …
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CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English
One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …
can provide strategic information, advising the guerrillas of when and where to act to accommodate the overall … be required to live and fight in the manner of guerrillas.’”53 During the war, the success of the OSS validated … they must organize the local population into guerrillas. After completing the collective training phase … missions would be carried out by both the SOF and guerrillas, however, the level of expertise will tend to …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 26 September 2023 English
“A distinctive and insightful perspective on being Muslim in the post-9/11 world.” — Charles TaylorVeteran Toronto Star editor Haroon Siddiqui, brown and Muslim, has spent a life on the media …
Pakistan in the 1980s to train and arm mujahideen guerrillas. Teir job? Help end the Soviet occupation of …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English
In three volumes spanning centuries, Lieutenant Colonel Roman Jarymowycz recounts the story of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, the oldest Highland regiment in the country. He traces …
Confederate raid on a bank in St Albans, Vermont. The guerrillas fled across the border into Canada where they …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English
In three volumes spanning centuries, Lieutenant Colonel Roman Jarymowycz recounts the story of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, the oldest Highland regiment in the country. He traces …
Confederate raid on a bank in St Albans, Vermont. The guerrillas fled across the border into Canada where they …
CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 17 March 2023 English
Created in the wake of the crucible of violence of the First and Sec- ond World Wars, as well as the diplomatic failures of the Interwar years, the founding of …
(though not disarmament) of the Patriotic Front guerrillas in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), leading to free universal …
CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 10 March 2023 English
The result was the formation of the United Nations and in particular Article 2(4), which prohibited “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of …
mitigate the challenge of fighting rogue Afghan guerrillas, however, OPERATING ON THE MARGINS SOF IN THE …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 23 October 2022 English
at the time of the Clinton presidency kept upping the ante with the aim of winning over and connecting those responsible for the machinery of state to the money market. …
targeted killing of social leaders and demobilized guerrillas who signed the Peace Agreement. As of September … Emergency Protection Plan for Social Leaders, Former Guerrillas Another initiative undertaken by the government …
Wilson Center Canada · 9 September 2022 Spanish
Este volumen honra tres de las líneas de trabajo en El Colegio de México: la lectura de la historia de Estados Unidos, los estudios sobre la diplomacia desde el enfoque …
capturados y muertos, heridos o torturados por las guerrillas mexicanas.11 El presidente —al igual que otros … exigían que la nación siguiera luchando, con guerrillas si fuera necesario, hasta expulsar a los invasores … forma de imponer orden y estabilidad al país. Las guerrillas hacían prácticamente imposible enviar noticias … una traición, pues sostenían que una guerra de guerrillas era más honorable que ceder cualquier territorio …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 19 July 2022 English
There is a common assumption that the promotion of democracy and economic development are the most effective means of quelling widespread political unrest within a country. Many believe that free …
underlying socio-economic grievances and that guerrillas thrive off the support of the wider civilian … population to resist the incumbent.53 To succeed, guerrillas simply need to survive and prolong the war.54 … such conflicts always remain asymmetric or that guerrillas eschew power parity. Indeed, scholars have highlighted …
ECW Press · 14 June 2022 English
Arthur Ellis award–winning William Deverell’s 1983 bestseller An extremist warlord is about to unleash the world’s deadliest shock troops. The Rotkommando — an army of expert terrorists, political fanatics, and …
therefore I exist. “In order to function, urban guerrillas must be organized in small groups. The firing … a secret action in which the least number of guerrillas is involved,” Nero was saying in a flat voice …
