Guerrilla warfare

Guerilla Warfare: A Case in Vietnam War Introduction During the Napoleonic Wars, the term “Guerrilla Warfare” emerged as the main phenomenon that lead the interest of various thinkers such as Clausewitz, Marx and Engels to examine its importance in war. ‘Guerrilla’ means “little war”, which explain a type of warfare, fought by irregulars in a fast-paced, small scale actions against military groups and police forces. The word “guerrilla” came from “guerrilleros” which referred to Spanish and Portugese

The guerrilla warfare along the Kansas-Missouri border has generally been considered an outlier of the American Civil War. While interesting to read about, its impact on the war and on Union policies were not always important to historians. Early in the study of this conflict historians chose to focus on the leaders and actions of the guerrillas. More recently, scholars have endeavored to understand how guerrilla war in the Civil War affected the society in which it took place. This shift in historiographical

In 1937, Mao Tse Tung wrote the book, “On Guerrilla Warfare,” as a rational appeal for survival. Mao wrote the piece with the Chinese military in mind as his audience. During this time, the Chinese military was preparing for the Second Sino-Japanese War. Mao accessed the challenges facing China in a possible war was their military logistics and strategy. The dynamics and logistics of the Chinese military versus the Japanese army were incomparable. Mao recognized the Chinese army as smaller in size

No 7. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose, and the conventional army loses if it does not win. 'We Fought a military war; Opponents our Fought a political one. We sought physical attrition, Opponents Aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process, we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerilla war. The guerilla wins if he does not lose, the conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their forces the way a bullfighter uses its cape - to keep us lunging

period in relation to insurgent guerrilla warfare in urban and agrarian societies across the globe share universal themes. These commonalities will be explored relating why combatants in guerrilla warfare fight. Moreover, what objectives guerrilla leaders wanted to achieve with their theories of social revolution. The works discussed are Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare, Ernesto Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare, and Carlos Marighella, Minimanual of The Urban Guerrilla. All three of these historical

the American Civil War. This book “Black Flag Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865” depicts some of the most violent guerrilla fighting that took place along the Kansas and Missouri border. He is very objective about presenting this sinister side of the Civil War. Mr. Goodrich’s book portrays the horrific death, destruction, merciless killings, rapes, and the millions of dollars worth of property seized or destroyed by the guerrillas on both the Union and Confederate side. This

Brownlee, Richard S. Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare in the West 1861-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. When the Civil War started many people of this nation were not expecting the chaos, destruction, and they certainly did not expect the war to last so long. The history of the guerrilla warfare began shortly before the start of the Civil War and lasted a few years after the war. The guerrillas dominated Missouri to such an extent that the Union army

from the Guerrilla Warfare and from Claribel Alegria describe how the revolutionary struggle was for both of their countries and described the involvement of the women. Women became very important through this time, by comparing and contrasting the obstacles and roles that the women had to overcome in these documents would give a better view of how important women were for the revolutionary struggle. Similarities between the two documents were very relevant. Both in the Guerrilla Warfare and in Alegeria’s

Tung on Guerrilla Warfare). In both wars the guerrilla fighters established their base away from the cities where they knew the terrain and had the support of the people. The Vietnamese, Viet Cong and Vietminh saw the Americans as neo-colonialist or imperialists occupying their country, relocating them from their ancestral land as the French and Japanese had done before, (www.historynet.com/vietnam war). They were defending someone who was corrupt and against the will of the people who wanted a

1. What are the conditions that lead to guerrilla warfare and distinguishes revolutionary guerrilla warfare from historical guerrilla warfare? – There are several conditions that lead a body of people within a state to the point of guerrilla warfare. Such factors can be found from an example of the policy used for the revolution of the Chinese people including: “1) Arousing and organizing people. 2) Achieving internal unification politically. 3) Establishing bases. 4) Equipping forces. 5) Recovering