![]() ![]() ![]() All of that is to weaken the enemy's strength, to cause the enemy eventually to be unable to prosecute the war any longer, and to force the enemy to withdraw. Not limiting their targets to personnel, enemy resources are also preferred targets. Tactically, the guerrilla army would avoid any confrontation with large units of enemy troops, but seek and eliminate small groups of soldiers to minimize losses and exhaust the opposing force. The guerrilla focuses on organizing in small units, depending on the support of the local population, as well as taking advantage of terrain more accommodating of small units. The strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfare tend to focus around the use of a small, mobile force competing against a larger, more unwieldy one. The use of the diminutive evokes the differences in number, scale, and scope between the guerrilla army and the formal, professional army of the state.īoer guerrillas during the Second Boer War in South Africa File:PKK Militant.jpgĪ Kurdish PKK guerrilla in Iraqi Kurdistan as part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, 2008 However, in most languages guerrilla still denotes the specific style of warfare. The term "guerrilla" was used in English as early as 1809, to describe the fighters (e.g., "The town was taken by the guerrillas"), and also (as in Spanish) to denote a group or band of such fighters. ![]() In correct Spanish usage, a person who is a member of a guerrilla is a guerrillero ( ) if male, or a guerrillera if female. The term means "little war" in Spanish, and the word, guerrilla ( Spanish pronunciation: ), has been used to describe the concept since the 18th century, and perhaps earlier. Spanish guerrilla resistance to the French invasion in 1808 ![]()
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