Guerrilla Tactics

1. Guerrilla Tactics By Ashley Campanella and Nicholas Daigler

2. Main Tactics • -Mostly hit and run • -Making your enemy second guess who you are • -They avoid large confrontations • -“the enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”- Mao Zedong

3. Nature of Conflict/ who was involved • -Vietcong • -U.S soldiers, North and South Vietnamese • -It is aggressive hit and runs • -They would hide until they saw soldiers and attacked in small groups

4. More information • -ambushes, sabotage, raids, and petty warfare • -disguise themselves as civilian • -disrupt an enemy who had a larger army and was equipped better • -they know where the army was because they were born and raised so they know the entire layout of the mountains and rainforest • -guerrilla warfare worked and still does work extremely well because in Iraq that’s all the people would use • -they are constantly on the run from an enemy bigger than them

5. Continued • -given only a basic minimum of infantry training • -it is only when all the rural areas are under their control and they are convinced that they outnumber the opposition • -initial objective was to gain support from the peasants living in the rural areas • -"without the constant and active support of the peasants... failure is inevitable.“ –Mao Zedong

6. Impact on the war effort • -they had always given the highest priority to creating safe base areas • -they also offered secure sanctuaries when the war might go badly • -they built an enormous system of underground tunnels

7. Interesting fact • -practitioners of guerrilla warfare have been called rebels, irregulars, insurgents, partisans, and mercenaries