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noun
- 1. engagement in or the activities involved in a war fought by small groups of irregular soldiers against typically larger regular forces: "in the 1960s a broad shift occurred from rural guerrilla warfare to urban terror"
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Guerrilla warfare is a form of conflict that has been used by various groups, such as those with traditional, religious, nationalist, monarchist, and anti-Communist motivations, to achieve their objectives. It is characterized by unconventional tactics and strategies and has been a prominent feature in international security for many years.
Nov 1, 2019 · This spatial action of subjectivation in forms of “guerrilla warfare”, encounters the growing passion for cultural city making by Municipal Governments. Through the study on transformation of rock space in Shenzhen, we aim to reflect on scholarship on post-political forms of urban governance in China.
4 The Economics of Guerrilla Warfare. Guerrilla wars are usually considered to be driven by political issues. The mention of guerrillas can conjure up images such as Spanish peasants fighting Napoleon, Lawrence of Arabia leading the Arabs in the desert against the Turks, Fidel Castro fighting in the Sierra Madre against Batista, Vietnamese ...
Nov 1, 2019 · This spatial action of subjectivation in forms of “guerrilla warfare”, encounters the growing passion for cultural city making by Municipal Governments. Through the study on transformation of rock space in Shenzhen, we aim to reflect on scholarship on post-political forms of urban governance in China.
Jan 1, 2014 · Abstract. We generalize Deitchman’s guerrilla warfare model to account for trade-off between intelligence (‘bits’) and firepower (‘shots’). Intelligent targeting leads to aimed fire; absence of intelligence leads to unaimed fire, dependent on targets’ density. We propose a new Lanchester-type model that mixes aimed and unaimed fire ...
Guerrilla Warfare and Civil Wars In contexts where the opposition to the dictator is powerful enough and where weapons are readily available, guerrillas may emerge as defenders of the people. Guerrillas fight the armed forces of the state in prolonged wars that frequently last for many years.
Jan 1, 2013 · Since the collapse of the Siad Barre government in early 1991, Somalia is mired in a bitter civil war between government plus African Union forces, clan militias, and the Islamist Al Shabaab, fighting with and against each other in ever shifting alliances. al-Shabaab, which controls parts of the southern Somali coast, and shore-based clans and their militias in the northern regions of Somalia including Puntland, are ideally placed to take their guerrilla warfare to the sea, targeting Western ...
Apr 1, 1983 · Since 1945 guerrilla warfare has been the principal form of violent conflict. Its successful practitioners apply a highly developed sense of geography to exploit the advantages of terrain to discomfort the established order. To overcome such attacks, counter-insurgents need an equal or superior understanding of the landscape.
Jul 1, 2022 · The rest of the organization would be positioned in different places, sustaining guerrilla warfare to disperse the government forces (Leongomez, 1996, Pécaut, 2008; Aguilera Peña, 2014). To do this, the FARC invented a new military procedure that implied a quantitative and qualitative shift away from the traditional guerrilla-operating model.
Aug 1, 2007 · Annihilation warfare; (7) Terrorist and city guerrilla warfare; (8) Occupation and population control. Contemporary examples of these forms of warfare can be found today or in the recent past. In the same war, there may be differences between the opponents. The soldiers and civilians of the side that has air superiority will have injuries other ...
