Talk to me About Guerilla Warfare

Posted November 20th, 2009 by OldWarrior

guerillasThe term “Guerilla Warfare is derived from a Spanish term which means “little war.” In guerilla warfare a small outnumbered, and ill equipped group of people have to use irregular tactics to fight a larger military force.

Guerillas must be as unconventional as possible because they can not defeat their enemy in a head to head conflict. Sometimes when you watch a football game on TV you will see a weaker team use trick plays and deception to try to score because they know that they are not strong enough to win otherwise.

The biggest weakness that a large army has is their predictability. They must operate all things according to a rigid protocol in order for anything to work. The guerilla force will take advantage of this if they know what they are doing. They can plan their actions on the scripted response that the enemy will make to any attack or action against it. This is the kind of warfare that our Vietnam Veteran ring customers faced in the Vietnam war. It required us to come up with different tactics to try to combat guerilla warfare. This was frustrating to our soldiers because the hit and run tactics of the guerillas caused casualties that we couldn’t reciprocate.

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