guerrilla warfare
Ambush-and-vanish combat
Guerrilla warfare is military combat conducted by small, mobile groups using ambushes, sabotage, and hit-and-run tactics against a larger conventional force.
The strategy avoids pitched battles, relying instead on surprise, local terrain knowledge, and the ability to blend into civilian populations.
The resistance fighters waged guerrilla warfare in the mountains for years.
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
- Ho Chi Minh TrailWartime supply route through jungle
- supply linesRoutes for transporting provisions
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
irregular troops · partisans · military · proxy war · sabotage · behind enemy lines · terrorism · freedom fighters · national liberation · rebellion · decolonization · Che Guevara · clandestine operations · underground movement · Mao Zedong · indigenous resistance · liberation struggle · hearts and minds
- Greek Independenceuprising, Greek War of Independence, liberation struggle, revolt, revolutionaries
- Bleeding KansasFree-Staters, John Brown, Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty, bushwhackers
- Revolutionary MovementsMaoism, armed struggle, class struggle, manifesto, Red Army
- conflictclash, fight, war, battle, dispute
- Latin AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba
- strategystrategy, grand strategy, tactics, tactic, tactical
guerrilla warfareconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
conventional war · pitched battle · trench warfare · frontal assault · mechanized warfare