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Guerrilla Warfare - Kings of Revolution (Paperback)
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Guerrilla Warfare - Kings of Revolution (Paperback)
Series: Casemate Short History
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List price R245
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Discovery Miles 1 920
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The concept of guerrilla warfare is not decades, but many centuries
old, with earliest writing on the subject by Sun Tzu dating back to
the 6th Century BC. Some guerrilla tactics are probably as old as
the first armed groups of cavemen, being a natural evolution of
conflict between groups of disproportionate sizes. One of the
earliest examples of guerrilla tactics deployed by a consummate
institutional military leader was the Roman general Fabius Maximus
who took a course of evade and harassment against Hannibal's
columns. This is a compendium of prominent worldwide guerrilla
leaders beginning with William Wallace in the thirteenth century to
modern day Sri Lanka. It profiles each leader to analyze their
personal history, military tactics and political strategy. All are
home grown leaders in extended guerrilla campaigns many of whom
ended up as the first leaders of their countries or liberators of
entire regions such as Simon Bolivar. It includes victories and
defeats in an effort to tease out not only effective guerrilla
tactics but counter-insurgency strategies with some likelihood of
success. The advice expounded by Mao Zedong that: "the guerrilla
must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea" with his
experiences of long marches over distant countryside regions of
China has evolved into a more urbanized context. The name
insurgent, freedom fighter or jihadi is fast replacing guerrilla.
The old guerrilla associated with fights for independence and the
end of colonialization has dimmed with modern and far-reaching
religious insurgencies taking their place. This concise history
gives a fascinating overview of a once history-altering form of
warfare.
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