Guerrilla Warfare
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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ICG: International Crisis Group · 18 April 2024 English
16 “Memorandum Order 32: Reinforcing the Guidelines for the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in the Implementation of Measures to Suppress and Prevent Lawless Violence”, …
who lack the older generation’s finesse in guerrilla warfare.129 With the military pushing hard to dismantle …
BESA: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies · 27 March 2024 English
Strategic victory requires fundamental changes in the situation on the ground: the loss by guerrilla and terrorist operatives of the support of their population; isolation of the arena to prevent …
operational victory does not mean the threat of guerrilla warfare and terrorism has been removed from the Gaza … is achieved in order to weaken the enemy's guerrilla warfare and terrorism capabilities until they either …
Hope Not Hate · 14 March 2024 English
While some of this can be explained by also seen the continuing growth of a Radical more aggressive policing, it is also symptomatic Right ecosystem that includes GB News and …
Similarly to also stated that he is ready for “guerrilla warfare” and ACS members, O’Brien also has a connection …
USSC: United States Studies Centre · 6 March 2024 English
Beijing’s grey-zone tactics — ways and means to coerce a country short of the use of conventional force — are used to identify vulnerabilities and set favourable military conditions to …
guerrilla force in a denied area. It includes guerrilla warfare and other direct offensive, low-visibility …
CeSPI: Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale · 6 March 2024 English
On January 21, 2024, Hamas released the "Our Narrative" document, officially claiming its goal for the 10/7 attack of "stopping the expansion of West Bank 9 settlements and bringing an …
Hamas’ attack was supposed to be part of its guerrilla warfare against the State of Israel. On January 21 …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 27 February 2024 English
Also, the ‘democratisation’ of the air littoral can be viewed both as an opportunity and threat: the former as it places increasingly sophisticated capabilities in the hands of soldiers at …
settled for the long and protracted phase of guerrilla warfare.34 Integral aIr support to land operatIons …
BESA: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies · 19 February 2024 English
Third, after a long period of “wars of choice” in which Israel was the strong side, we have returned to the era of “wars of no choice” in which the …
against guerrilla warfare in the security zone in Lebanon, and against terror and guerrilla warfare in the … an enemy 1 population prepared to conduct guerrilla warfare was perceived as a liability rather than an … as an unacceptable burden because of the guerrilla warfare to which occupying IDF forces would be subjected … casualties and exposure of IDF troops to guerrilla warfare. The “Iron Swords” war demonstrates that both …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 16 February 2024 English
The paper explores the drivers of political fragility by focusing on coups d’état as symptomatic of such fragility. It uses event studies to identify factors that exhibit significantly different dynamics …
Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive (CNTS) Guerrilla Warfare Sociopolitical Stability Cross-National Time-Series …
UNODC: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime · 14 February 2024 English
11 (b)).6 Exploitation The use of the child in work or other activities for the benefit of others and to the detriment of the child’s physical or mental health, development, …
engaging the Nigerian security forces in guerrilla warfare and carrying out a series of high-profile …
FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 6 February 2024 English
occupying Romans and their Herodian collaborators in Judea. Their military wing, the Sicarii, waged guerrilla warfare, their army turned on fellow Jews who sought compromise, and the last of the Zealots famously …
Their military wing, the Sicarii, waged guerrilla warfare, their army turned on fellow Jews who sought …
