Asymmetric conflict - guerilla warfare

Question 1

Gureilla elements

Answer 1

set of combat tactics to confront an enemy greatly superior in numbers, equipment, an training. It’s the weapon of the weak, independently of its political complexity

Question 2

levels of warfare

Answer 2

strategically defensive, but tactically offensive

Question 3

Main capability

Answer 3

Surprise attack

Question 4

Mao guerilla

Answer 4

Main cause: Mao theory elaborated over communist liberation principles adapted to the Chinese rural and peasant environment

Chinese communist revolution against Chinese national party

Question 5

Tactical aspect

Answer 5

annihilate small enemy units, harass the enemy, sabotage enemy communication lines, establish liberated bases from where operate against the enemy

Question 6

Vietnamese model

Answer 6

Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap. Revision of time and territory in a pragmatic/ operational sense.

Population as antiimperialist force able to delegitimize the enemy both at the national and international level. Model implemented in Vietnam war.

Question 7

Ernesto “Che Guevarra”:

Answer 7

focoist guerilla. Revision of Maoist theory. Instead of indoctrining population and secondly creating a guerilla base, first the “foco” is created and then population is indoctrinated at it.

The model worked in Cuba, but it failed in other scenarios as Boliva bc of the lack of adaption of the model regarding territory.

Question 8

Urban guerilla model

Answer 8

never succeeded