Paolo Palumbo, Newsrep: Spain 1808: The birth of guerrilla warfare
The recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan forced most modern and technologically advanced armies to revise their strategies by adapting to the new contingencies of asymmetric warfare. The U.S. military occupation of Iraq was an excellent example of how a top-level military force could crumble in the face of an uncontrollable popular uprising. After a triumphant march to Baghdad, the U.S. military’s total lack of a strategic plan quickly embroiled it in a long and stressful confrontation against small groups of insurgents whose actions made Iraq ungovernable.
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WNU editor: And I thought it was the partisans on the eastern front during the Second World War who gave birth to guerrilla warfare.
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
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ReplyDeleteGuerrilla warfare is as old as time. It takes a particularly arrogant man to claim knowledge of its birth.
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ReplyDeleteI 100% agree.
This whole post made me laugh and I thought it was a joke..
In Sweden we have records of guerrilla warfare from the 17th-century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapphane
And this is just from the top of my head from my history.
I know of a Spartan unit in Persia, 401 BC, that after a peace treaty got stuck in there and ran around wrecking everything.
And then we have the master himself, Sun Tzu (400ish BC), literally promoting guerrilla warfare in The Art of War.
Before organized warfare there was guerilla warfare.
ReplyDelete...and there is this too
ReplyDeleteGUERILLA WARFARE MAY POSSIBLY STEM FROM THIS SOURCE
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