Book: Guerilla Warfare
By Che Guevara
- Status: Finished
- Score: 4.2
- Language: English
- Pages: 177
- File: guerilla-warfare.pdf
Summary
This book, as the name suggests, is about guerrilla warfare. The author touches upon many issues regarding the character of the guerrilla, his training, geography of war, necessary equipment, organization, war tactics and strategies.
Based on his own experiences, he tries to determine basic and universal rules for every guerrilla warfare. These can be grouped under the name of "seven golden rules." These are (from Harry Villegas' foreword):
- Do not engage in a fight that cannot be won.
- Move continuously, hit and run.
- Use the enemy as the main supplier of weapons.
- Hide your movements.
- Make use of the element suprise in military actions.
- Form new columns once some power has been won.
- In general, proceed through three phases: strategic defense, balance between the possibilities of enemy action and guerilla action, and finally the total annihilation of the adversary.
Also, we can add some more general rules:
- Ammunation and other supplies must be spend carefully.
- Because of enemy spies, no one should know more than he needs to know.
- The guerrilla must be structured in such a way that it will not be affected by the death of their important people.