Modern guerrilla campaign
•Action
•Capitalize on discontent and mistrust generated by
corruption (real or imagined), exploitation, oppression, incompetence, and
unwanted presence of existing regime to evolve a
common cause or unifying theme as basis to organize and maintain mass popular
support through a militant political program.
•Set-up
administrative and military organization, sanctuary, and communications
network under the control of the guerrilla political leadership without arousing
regime’s intelligence and security apparatus. Build-up a shadow government,
with “parallel hierarchies”, in localities and regions that can be made
ripe for insurrection/revolution by infiltrating cadres (vanguards) who can
not only subvert existing authority but also convert leaders and people to
guerrilla cause and organizational way.
•Exploit
subversion of government and conversion of people to guerrilla cause to create
an alien atmosphere of security and intelligence in order to “blind” regime to guerrilla
plans, operations, and organization yet make “visible” regime’s strengths,
weaknesses, moves, and intentions.
•Shape
propaganda, foment civil disorders (such as rallies, demonstrations, strikes,
and riots), use selected terrorism, perform sabotage, and exploit resulting
misinformation to expand mistrust and sow discord thereby magnify the
appearance of corruption, incompetence, etc., and the inability of regime to
govern.
•Employ
tiny cohesive bands for surprise hit-and-run raids against lines of
communications to gain arms and supplies as well as disrupt government communication,
coordination, and movement. Retreat and melt into environment when faced by
superior police and armed forces.
•Disperse
or scatter tiny guerrilla bands to arouse the people (and gain recruits) as
well as harass, wear-out, and spread-out government forces while
larger bands, or mobile formations, concentrate to wipe-out his dispersed,
isolated, and relatively weak fractions by sudden ambush or sneak attack.
•Play upon
the grievances and obsessions of people (via propaganda, re-education, and
selected successes) as well as encourage government to indiscriminately
take harsh reprisal measures against them in order to connect the government
with expanding climate of mistrust, discord, and moral
disintegration. Simultaneously, show (by contrast) that guerrillas exhibit
moral authority, offer competence, and provide desired benefits in order to
further erode government influence, gain more recruits, multiply base areas,
and increase political infrastructure hence expand guerrilla influence/control
over population and countryside.
•Demonstrate
disintegration of regime by striking cheng/ch'i fashion,
with small fluid bands and ever larger mobile formations, to split-up,
envelop, and annihilate fractions of major enemy forces.
•Idea
•Defeat existing regime politically by showing they have
neither the moral right nor demonstrated ability to govern
and militarily by continuously using stealth/fast-tempo/fluidity-of-action
and cohesion of small bands and larger units in cooperation with
political “agitprop” (agitation/propaganda) teams as
basis to harass, confuse and ultimately destroy the will or capacity to
resist.
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