guerrilla movement
Armed resistance campaign
A guerrilla movement is an organized armed resistance that uses unconventional tactics—ambushes, sabotage, hit-and-run attacks—rather than direct confrontation with a stronger enemy.
Such movements typically operate from rural or difficult terrain with support from local populations: The guerrilla movement controlled large swaths of the countryside.
The term applies to insurgencies across the political spectrum, from revolutionary to separatist causes.
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
- rebelAuthority defier
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- armed struggleViolent political conflict
rebel army · partisan · freedom fighter · jungle · jungle warfare · revolution · ambush · hit and run · clandestine · militia · liberation · sabotage · underground · fighters · Che · warfare · mountains · hideout
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- radicalismradical, extremism, radicalism, militancy, fanaticism
- social movementswomen's liberation, abolition, feminism, disability rights, LGBT rights
- movementsmove, step, turn, shift, slide
- secret organizationscabal, secret society, secret societies, conspiracy, spy network
guerrilla movementregular army
Nation's permanent military force
standing army · armed forces · professional army · conventional forces · imperial army
guerrilla movementgovernment
Authority over a state
state apparatus · ruling party · colonial administration · status quo · ancien régime
guerrilla movementnonviolent resistance
Protest through peaceful means
political party · passive resistance · electoral politics · civil rights movement · reform movement
guerrilla, movement, warrior, movable, moveable, unmovable, immovable, moving, removal