Category: Guerrilla warfare theorists

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.

This recent growth was inspired in part by theoretical works on guerrilla warfare, starting with the Manual de Guerra de Guerrillas by Matías Ramón Mella written in the 19th century and, more recently, Mao Zedong's On Guerrilla Warfare, Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare and Lenin's text of the same name, all written after the successful revolutions carried by them in China, Cuba and Russia respectively.

Guerrilla warfare can be traced back to Sun Tzu, in his The Art of War ( 6th century BCE ).

:" Guerrilla warfare is an inevitable form of struggle at a time when the mass movement has actually reached the point of an uprising and when fairly large intervals occur between the ' big engagements ' in the civil war.

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* Guerrilla warfare in Argentina and Colombia, 1974 – 1982, by Bynum E. Weathers, Jr. ( 1982 ).

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Guerrilla warfare and banditry erupted into the rebellion of the Zaydi tribes in 1905.

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Elizabeth City was under Union control for the remainder of the war though Confederate irregulars engaged in Guerrilla warfare with Union forces in the area for the remainder of the war.

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In the 1960s the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara developed the foco () theory of revolution in his book Guerrilla Warfare, based on his experiences during the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

* Guerrilla Tactics – How the Tamil Tigers Were Beaten in an ' Unwinnable ' War Article appeared on The Times, 19 May 2009

On 3 June 1991, dialogue resumed between the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board and the government on neutral territory in Caracas, Venezuela and Tlaxcala, Mexico.

** Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist / Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside.

* Red Faction: Guerrilla takes place on Mars in 2125.

* Robert Stone in 2004 directed Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, which focuses on the media frenzy surrounding the Symbionese Liberation Army, and includes new footage and interviews.

During the Suriname Guerrilla War ( 1986 – 1990 ) between the Surinamese military regime, headed by Dési Bouterse, and the Surinamese Liberation Army, a guerrilla group better known as the Jungle Commando, led by Bouterse's former bodyguard Ronnie Brunswijk, soldiers of Bouterse executed on 29 November 1986, at least 39 villagers of Moiwana.

Guerrilla marketing focuses on low cost creative strategies of marketing.

After the capture of Vinzons on July 8, 1942, the guerrilla movement was carried on by Lieutenant Francisco Boayes and by the Tangcong Vaca Guerrilla Unit organized by Elias Madrid, Juan Miranda and Leon Aureus.

* Guerrilla marketing warfare strategies-Attack, retreat, hide, then do it again, and again, until the competitor moves on to other markets.

Jay Conrad Levinson wrote ' Guerrilla Marketing ' on aggressive marketing tactics in 1984.

Guerrilla activity intensified after the formation of a provisional Czechoslovak government in Košice on 4 April 1945.

* 27 May-Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist / Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside.

Guerrilla groups operating around Malaybalay made frequent raids on the Japanese camps from the time of the occupation until the arrival of the Americans.

Guerrilla Girls names are pseudonyms generally based on dead female artists.

Guerrilla Girls ' " Carriera " is credited with the idea of using pseudonyms as ways to not forget female artists ; having read about Rosalba Carriera in a footnote of Letters on Cezanne by Maria Rainer Rilke, she decided to pay tribute to the little-known female artist with her name.

Guerrilla Girl 1 joined in the late 1980s, taking on her name as a way to memorialize women in the art community who have fallen under the radar and did not make as notable as an impact as the names takes on by other members.

Before his death during a bank robbery in 1969 he wrote the Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla which, between the polemics, gave clear advice on strategy and was quickly adopted by others around the world.

Their name was a play on the Rage Against the Machine single " Guerrilla Radio ".

One of the most distressing of these scenes occurred at Spring Green toward the end of the open warfare, on a beautiful day in June.

Then Miriam varied the senseless psychological warfare by suddenly withdrawing a suit for separate maintenance that had been pending, and asking for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, with the understanding that Wright would not contest it.

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

The road to a guaranteed-neutral, coup-proof Laos is today almost as difficult as warfare on that nation's terrain.

Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

But just before luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt. George Symonds.

Stress on the environment may have been reflected in the social structure, leading to conflict and warfare.

He asserts that isolated communities relied on raiding for food and supplies, and that internal conflict and warfare became common in the 13th century.

The adjectival epithet Areios was frequently appended to the names of other gods when they take on a warrior aspect or become involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia.

This was based on lack of intelligence information and reflected the American nuclear warfare theory and military doctrines.

Last Bronx, a 1996 Sega game played on the bad reputation of the Bronx to lend its name to an alternate version of post-Japanese bubble Tokyo, where crime and gang warfare is rampant.

Greeves also beads on buckskin and explores such issues as warfare or Native American voting rights.

Although the use of aircraft has for the most part always been used as a supplement to land or naval engagements, since their first major military use in World War I aircraft have increasingly taken on larger roles in warfare.

In its military campaigns, the Japanese used biological warfare on Chinese soldiers and civilians.

US President Richard M. Nixon announced his new policy on biological warfare at a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on November 25, 1969.

Key elements in the " blitzkrieg warfare " at the decisive Battle of Megiddo included concentration, surprise and speed ; success depending on attacking only in favourable terrain, where the terrain favoured the movement of large formations around the battlefield, and tactical improvements in the British artillery and infantry attack.

Blitzkrieg is very vulnerable to an enemy that puts a great emphasis on anti-tank warfare and on anti-aircraft weaponry, especially if the side employing blitzkrieg is unprepared.

The German Army had a greater grasp of the effects of technology on the battlefield, and went on to develop a new form of warfare by which its rivals when it came to the test were hopelessly outclassed.

Trench warfare dominated strategy on the Western Front, and the use of chemical and poison gases added to the devastation.

Although Constans called the Council of Sardica in 343 to settle the conflict, it was a complete failure and by 346 the two emperors were on the point of open warfare over the religious dispute.

Another element of horse mounted warfare is the psychological impact a mounted soldier can inflict on an opponent.

Tibetans also had a tradition of cavalry warfare, in several military engagements early on with the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 AD ), including Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tufan in 638.