partisan movement
Irregular guerrilla campaign
A partisan movement is an organized resistance group operating within enemy-occupied territory, typically conducting guerrilla warfare, sabotage, and intelligence gathering.
The term gained prominence during World War II, when partisan fighters in Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere harassed Axis forces: The partisan movement disrupted German supply lines throughout the occupation.
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- hit and runLeaving after causing accident
- night raidsArmed operations after sundown
- French ResistanceWWII underground liberation movement
- underground networksHidden interconnected systems below
guerrilla warfare · behind enemy lines · Che Guevara · nationalism · occupied territory · radio · communism · anti-colonialism · sabotage · Eastern Europe · American Revolution · anti-fascism · freedom fighters · liberation army · propaganda campaigns · socialism · Southeast Asia · clandestine operations
- Italian HistoryRome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Sicily
- movementsstep, turn, shift, slide, roll
- secret organizationscabal, secret society, secret societies, conspiracy, spy network
- Croatian Warterritorial defense, Dalmatia, secession, statehood
- Piedmont HistoryTurin, House of Savoy, Garibaldi, Savoy, unification
partisan movementregular army
Nation's permanent military force
standing army · line infantry · armed forces · conventional forces · peacekeeping force
partisan, partisans, partisanship, part, parts, parted, parting, partial, partially