Guerrilla warfare/Related Articles

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Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. ^[e]

Mao Zedong [r]: (1893–1976) Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China; military theorist most associated with protracted war ^[e] [Chinese]
George Grivas [r]: (1898-1974) Greek Army officer and intense anticommunist who commanded guerrillas and wrote doctrinal manual including techniques of terrorism during the civil war in Cyprus ^[e] [Greek Cypriot]]
Carlos Marighella [r]: (1911-1969) Brazilian Marxist who wrote the Minimanual for the Urban Guerrilla, with an especially strong advocacy of terrorism as a tactic ^[e] [Brazilian]]
Vo Nguyen Giap [r]: The most prominent general of the Viet Minh, the People's Army of Viet Nam, and eventually Defense Minister and Politburo member of North Vietnam ^[e] [Vietnamese]
Che Guevara [r]: Add brief definition or description

Aaron Bank [r]: Add brief definition or description
Colin Gubbins [r]: British Army special operations officer, who commanded the Auxiliary Units (WWII British) and Special Operations Executive; wrote several books on guerrilla warfare ^[e]
Wendell Fertig [r]: Add brief definition or description [U.S. in the Philippines]
Francis Marion [r]: Add brief definition or description [American]
Pavel Sudoplatov [r]: Add brief definition or description
Roger Trinquier [r]: An influential French guerrilla and counterguerrilla officer in the 1950s and 1960s, best known for his work in Indochina (i.e. before the French left) in the extended Vietnam War, and in the Algerian War of Independence. He is one of the very few doctrinal writers to have endorsed even the controlled use of torture. ^[e]
Russell Volckmann [r]: Add brief definition or description

Auxiliary Units (WWII British [r]: Add brief definition or description
Operation Jedburgh [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States Army Special Forces [r]: United States Army organization originally created to train and lead guerrillas, highly qualified to work with other cultures; acquired additional missions including foreign internal defense, direct action (military), special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, etc. ^[e]
MACV-SOG [r]: The U.S. organization responsible for covert operations against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, as well as related cross-border operations from South Vietnam into Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War; the abbreviation had an unclassified cover meaning, but was actually the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Special Operations Group ^[e]
Main Partisan Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description

Edward Lansdale [r]: A U.S. Air Force general on assignment to the CIA, key counterinsurgency advisor to Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay, involved in French Indochina and South Vietnam 1954-1960, although lost influence in U.S. policymaking through bureaucratic infighting ^[e]
David Kilcullen [r]: A former Australian infantry officer with a doctorate in the study of insurgency and history, he is an advisor on counterinsurgency to the Australian and U.S. governments. His models draw a sharp distinction between the tactic of terror, and the conduct of wars that make use of that tactic. Board of Advisors, Center for a New American Security ^[e]
Sir Robert Thompson [r]: Add brief definition or description
Roger Trinquier [r]: An influential French guerrilla and counterguerrilla officer in the 1950s and 1960s, best known for his work in Indochina (i.e. before the French left) in the extended Vietnam War, and in the Algerian War of Independence. He is one of the very few doctrinal writers to have endorsed even the controlled use of torture. ^[e]
Foreign internal defense [r]: Add brief definition or description