guerilla warfare
Hit-and-run combat
Guerrilla warfare is military conflict conducted by small, mobile groups using tactics like ambushes, sabotage, and raids rather than conventional battle.
The fighters typically lack the resources for direct confrontation, so they harass a larger force through hit-and-run attacks: The resistance relied on guerrilla warfare against the occupying army.
The term extends to aggressive unconventional tactics in other domains: guerrilla marketing.
- hit-and-runLeaving after causing collision
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- behind enemy linesWithin adversary's controlled area
- freedom fightersArmed opponents of oppression
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
insurgency · resistance movement · rebel forces · Vietnam War · hearts and minds · fog of war · booby trap · irregulars · infiltration · supply lines · Spanish Civil War · Boer War · militia · raid · camouflage techniques · American Revolution · reconnaissance · cultural resistance
- January Uprisinginsurgents, insurgent forces, insurgent leaders, national government, partisans
- Vendee WarsChouannerie, blue army, Nantes, Loire, memorial sites
- Vietnam WarVietnam War, Vietnam, Tet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, Viet Cong
- Timor-LesteTimor-Leste, East Timor, Timorese, Independence Day, adat
guerilla warfareconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
pitched battle · trench warfare · frontal assault · siege warfare · mechanized warfare
guerilla warfarenonviolent resistance
Protest through peaceful means
peaceful protest · diplomatic negotiation · civil disobedience · passive resistance · diplomacy
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