Sereno R. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: GUEVARA, CHE. [2] The most important prerequisite for conducting guerrilla warfare in a country is the popular support of its people for the guerrilla army. Although the original approach was to mobilize and launch attacks from rural areas, many foco ideas were adapted into urban guerrilla warfare movements. Guevara states that the "three fundamental lessons" of the Cuban Revolution are: "1) Popular forces can win a war against the army. In concluding, the future of war, and the new directions theory might take in best understanding war in the upcoming millennium, are considered. The most useful and original comparisons have been done by Robert Williams, an economist who uses sociological, historical, and ethnographic methods in his research. As the success of the Cuban Revolution has demonstrated, guerrilla warfare is a feasible method for making communist revolution against regular national armies.
In this sense, they respect the rights of innocent civilians by refraining from targeting them. It also means that he must be an effective communicator with the peasantry, for whom he fights and upon whom he relies for support. The term became popular during the early-19th century Peninsular War, when the Spanish and Portuguese people rose against the Napoleonic troops and fought against a highly superior army using the guerrilla strategy. In particular there is little evidence to support the common claim that guerrilla organizations attract a disproportionate number of psychopathic individuals. It should therefore be no surprise that the end of the Cold War did not mean the end of guerrilla conflicts.
As the guerrillas establish control in given areas, a supply chain must be established to satisfy all of the force's needs, particularly food, salt, and leather for shoes. Ulrich vom Hagen, in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict (Second Edition), 2008. Military Review [serial online]. In the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu proposed the use of guerrilla-style tactics in The Art of War. It is clear that it is not possible to fit these young people into any particular sociodemographic or psychological categories. If the government is on the people’s side, guerrilla activities quickly turn into terrorism. Other hypotheses including ideas of ‘terrorist personality types’ or psychodynamic explanations will always be very hard to substantiate. A Brief Summary. In this area it may be important to recognize two types of groups, anarchic/ideologues and nationalist/separatists. The 3rd century BC Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus is also credited with inventing many of the tactics of guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla war or war of liberation have three stages: (160) 1) Strategic defensive 2) State of equilibrium in which the possibilities of action on both sides are established a. On the contrary, many factors make guerrilla warfare more rather than less likely in the twenty-first century. Civilians could be drafted, trained to fight, and armed with modern weapons at relatively cheap cost. This means that he must be personally convinced that his enemy upholds an oppressive and unjust society, which must be overthrown through revolution. Castro was of course not the only rebel in Latin America to utilize the method of guerrilla warfare.