Key to success
Ability to continuously demonstrate government weakness,
erode government influence, and cause government to
alienate itself from people.
Support of people (both psychological and physical) for
intelligence, recruits, shelter, transportation,
refuge, food, money, and medical aid.
Access to (more or less permanent) safe sanctuaries or
base areas and/or fluid bases that can be shifted from
place to place, away from enemy forcesin order to rest,
recuperate, repair materiel, etc., as well as indoctrinate, train, and equip recruits.
Use of stealth/fast-tempo/fluidity-of-action coupled with
cohesion of guerrilla bands as basis for:
dispersion, to
arouse people, to avoid adversary strength, and to force government
to thin-out, or disperse, its strength;
concentration, to hit and wipe-out isolated
fractions;
shifting of effort (in these
as well as other activities), in order to gain and keep
initiative.