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Parent topics
- Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. [e]
Subtopics
Theorists
- Mao Zedong [r]: (1893–1976) Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China; military theorist most associated with protracted war [e] [Chinese]
- George Grivas [r]: (1898-1974) Greek Army officer and intense anticommunist who commanded guerrillas and wrote doctrinal manual including techniques of terrorism during the civil war in Cyprus [e] [Greek Cypriot]]
- Carlos Marighella [r]: (1911-1969) Brazilian Marxist who wrote the Minimanual for the Urban Guerrilla, with an especially strong advocacy of terrorism as a tactic [e] [Brazilian]]
- Vo Nguyen Giap [r]: The most prominent general of the Viet Minh, the People's Army of Viet Nam, and eventually Defense Minister and Politburo member of North Vietnam [e] [Vietnamese]
- Che Guevara [r]: Add brief definition or description
Leaders
- Aaron Bank [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Colin Gubbins [r]: British Army special operations officer, who commanded the Auxiliary Units (WWII British) and Special Operations Executive; wrote several books on guerrilla warfare [e]
- Wendell Fertig [r]: Add brief definition or description [U.S. in the Philippines]
- Francis Marion [r]: Add brief definition or description [American]
- Pavel Sudoplatov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Roger Trinquier [r]: An influential French guerrilla and counterguerrilla officer in the 1950s and 1960s, best known for his work in Indochina (i.e. before the French left) in the extended Vietnam War, and in the Algerian War of Independence. He is one of the very few doctrinal writers to have endorsed even the controlled use of torture. [e]
- Russell Volckmann [r]: Add brief definition or description
Organizations
- Auxiliary Units (WWII British [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation Jedburgh [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Army Special Forces [r]: United States Army organization originally created to train and lead guerrillas, highly qualified to work with other cultures; acquired additional missions including foreign internal defense, direct action (military), special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, etc. [e]
- MACV-SOG [r]: The U.S. organization responsible for covert operations against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, as well as related cross-border operations from South Vietnam into Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War; the abbreviation had an unclassified cover meaning, but was actually the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Special Operations Group [e]
- Main Partisan Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
Counterguerrillas
- Edward Lansdale [r]: A U.S. Air Force general on assignment to the CIA, key counterinsurgency advisor to Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay, involved in French Indochina and South Vietnam 1954-1960, although lost influence in U.S. policymaking through bureaucratic infighting [e]
- David Kilcullen [r]: A former Australian infantry officer with a doctorate in the study of insurgency and history, he is an advisor on counterinsurgency to the Australian and U.S. governments. His models draw a sharp distinction between the tactic of terror, and the conduct of wars that make use of that tactic. Board of Advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
- Sir Robert Thompson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Roger Trinquier [r]: An influential French guerrilla and counterguerrilla officer in the 1950s and 1960s, best known for his work in Indochina (i.e. before the French left) in the extended Vietnam War, and in the Algerian War of Independence. He is one of the very few doctrinal writers to have endorsed even the controlled use of torture. [e]
- Foreign internal defense [r]: The United States military doctrine for assisting Host Nations in their counterinsurgency programs [e]
Doctrines and methods
- Unconventional warfare (United States doctrine) [r]: The United States' doctrinal term for the way the Department of Defense sees its forces operating in the more global context of insurgency. [e]
- Ambush [r]: A military action of short duration, in which the side preparing it creates a tactical situation in which the enemy will move into an area where he will suffer the most damage. [e]
- Assassination [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Improvised Explosive Device [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Raid [r]: A military attack of limited duration, assuming tactical surprise, which does not attempt to hold the land of the target. It destroys capabilities, obtains intelligence, or may be intended for psychological attack. [e]
- Sabotage [r]: The act of covertly damaging equipment or facilities, usually as part of guerrilla warfare. [e]
- Sniper [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]
- Clandestine human-source intelligence and covert action [r]: Intelligence and military special operations functions that either should be completely secret (i.e., clandestine: the existence of which is not known outside the relevant government circles), or simply cannot be linked to the sponsor (i.e., covert: it is known that sabotage is taking place, but its sponsor is unknown). [e]
- Covert action [r]: Any of a range of activities, intended to affect the behavior of a target nation or non-national actor, where the fact of the action is known, but the responsibility for the action cannot be proven. [e]
- Indochinese revolution [r]: The period, within the Wars of Vietnam, 1858-1987, between which France reasserted its colonial authority over Indochina in 1945, created a proto-state of Vietnam under a provisional government during which there was increasing insurgency, fought conventionally combat with the Viet Minh starting in 1950, and ended in 1954. The end, militarily, involved the defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu and. politically, with the creation of North Vietnam and South Vietnam by the Geneva accords [e]
- Peninsular War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vietnam War [r]: A post-colonial independence/Cold War conflict between communist North Vietnam against South Vietnam, assisted by the United States (1955-1975), to unify Vietnam; won by North Vietnam in 1975. [e]
