Urban Guerrilla Warfare: Urban Guerrilla Warfare - Strategies and Tactics for Modern Combat

By Fouad Sabry

What is Urban Guerrilla Warfare

An urban guerrilla is someone who fights a government using unconventional warfare or terrorism in an urban environment.

How you will benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Urban guerrilla warfare

Chapter 2: Red Army Faction

Chapter 3: List of guerrilla movements

Chapter 4: Resistance movement

Chapter 5: Japanese Red Army

Chapter 6: People's war

Chapter 7: New People's Army

Chapter 8: Marquetalia Republic

Chapter 9: Left-wing terrorism

Chapter 10: Foco

(II) Answering the public top questions about urban guerrilla warfare.

Who this book is for

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Urban Guerrilla Warfare.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: May 27, 2024

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Chapter 1: Urban guerrilla warfare

A person who opposes a government in an urban setting using unconventional warfare or domestic terrorism is known as an urban guerrilla.

The urban guerrilla phenomenon is primarily a product of industrial society and is supported by the existence of sizable urban agglomerations where hiding places are simple to locate as well as a notion of alienation unique to the contemporary mass consumption society.

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) commander Michael Collins is frequently cited as the originator of contemporary urban guerrilla warfare. The Squad or Twelve Apostles, an elite assassination group, was founded in Dublin in April 1919. One of the first true urban guerrilla units, the group was tasked with finding and killing British Intelligence agents in the city.

Guerrilla warfare has historically been a rural phenomena, and it wasn't until the 1960s that the limitations of this tactic were made abundantly evident. The Cuban-sponsored attempts in Latin America throughout the 1960s culminating in the foco campaign led by Che Guevara in Bolivia that led to his death showed that the tactic was almost wholly useless when deployed outside of the later colonial milieu. Rarely was the requirement that the target government be equally inept, unjust, and politically isolated met.

The rural insurgency's failure drove the disgruntled to discover new ways to take action, fundamentally random acts of terrorism intended to garner the most attention, encouraging the broader public to join a wider revolutionary movement by forcing the targeted governments to engage in severe repression.

This movement found its mentor in the leader of the ephemeral Ação Libertadora Nacional, Carlos Marighela.

He wrote the Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla before he passed away in 1969, in between the arguments, delivered concise strategy guidance that was soon embraced by people all throughout the world.

Urban guerilla warfare cannot, however, be applied to all urban political violence. Due to its public nature, the Black Panther Party might not be eligible even if, in heavily policed African-American areas, their self-defense strategy was interchangeable with a policy of armed resistance. Similar to the German Autonomen, the Italian Autonomomia movement also engaged in urban political violence, but these groups were not urban guerrillas due to their use of non-lethal, widespread, and public violence.

Wolfie Smith, the head of the fictional Tooting Popular Front, identified as an urban guerrilla in the 1970s BBC comedy Citizen Smith..

The National Liberation Front of Algeria (FLN)

Party of Ethiopian People's Revolution

Hizbul Islam

Al-Shabaab

Raskamboni Movement

During the 1971 Pakistan-Bangladesh War, Crack Platoon

Naxalite movement

the Jammu and Kashmir insurgency

Northeastern India has a conflict

SKNLF

SKSWA

Iranian People's Fedai Guerrilla Organization (OIPFG) (formed 1970)

Iranian People's Mujahedin (formed 1970)

Numerous insurgent forces

Leftists:

National Committee of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Middle Core Faction)

League of Revolutionary Communists in Japan (Revolutionary Marxist Faction)

Fourth International Japan

Red Army Faction

Russian Red Army (detached from Red Army Faction and Kyoto Partisan in 1971)

U.S. Army-Red Army (Remnants of Red Army Faction and the Maoist Revolutionary Left Wing of the Japanese Communist Party merged in 1971)

Armed Front Against Japan in East Asia

Fascists:

Tatenokai

Communist Party of Malaya (PKM)

Hezbollah

Hamas

Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation

PLO

Lehi

Brigade of Alex Boncayo (ABB)

Front of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party (DHKP-C)

Turkey's Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP)

The Devrimci Yol (DEV-YOL)

Federation of Turkish Revolutionary Youth

Devrimci Karargâh (DK)

Communities in Kurdistan as a Group (KCK)

Iraqi Workers Party (PKK)

Conflicting Communist Cells (CCC)

Front Revolutionaire d' Action Prolétarienne (FRAP)

Action Directe: A far-left organization.

group d'intervention nationaliste (fascist organization).

Separatist Corsican organization FLNC.

Organisation armée secrète - A far-right group.

Leftists:

Movement 2 June

Red Army Forces (RAF)

Progressive Cells (RZ)

Fascists:

national socialist background (NSU)

17 November Revolutionary Organization

Revolutionary Struggle

Revolutionary Nuclei

Sect of Revolutionaries

Accord of Fire Nuclei

Kópamaros

X18 (guerilla movement)

Irish Republican Army

National Liberation Army of Ireland

Irish Republican Army in Provision

The Polish Socialist Party's combat organization

Rewolucyjni Mściciele

ETA

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Terra Lliure

Canary Islands Independence Movement, MPAIAC

GRAPO

Resistência Galega

Iraultza

Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas

FRAP

Arxiu

Exèrcit Popular Català

Escamots Autònoms d´Alliberament

Hermanos Quero

Front of the Alliberation of Catalonia

Organització de la Lluita Armada

Exército Guerrilheiro do Povo Galego Ceive

Liga Armada Galega

Loita Armada Revolucionaria

Fuerzas Armadas Guanches

Andecha Obrera

National Liberation Army of Scotland

MAC

An Gof

Free Wales Army

National Liberation Army of Cornwall

FLQ (Quebec)

Squamish Five

Wimmin's Fire Brigade

Movement for July 26 (M-26-7)

FMLN

FSLN

American Indian Movement

Black Guerilla Family

Black Liberation Army

Black Panther Party

Border Ruffian

Brown Berets

Bushwacker

Chicano Liberation Front

Earth Liberation Front

George Jackson Brigade

Group of Green Mountain Anarchists

Jayhawker

Ku Klux Klan

Communist Movement of May 19

MOVE

Black Panther Party New

The Night Riders

Quantrill's Raiders

White Shirts (United States)

State of Texas (group)

Sovereign citizen movement

Symbionese Liberation Army

US Organization

Weather Underground Organization

Montoneros: A socialist organization.

Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) - A leftist group.

Fascist organisation Tacuara Nationalist Movement (MNT).

Action for National Liberation (ALN)

Movement for Popular Liberation (Molipo)

8th October Revolutionary Movement (MR-8)

Palmares of the Armed Revolutionary Vanguard (VAR-Palmares)

Frequently Used Revolutionary Vanguard (VPR)

Leftists:

Young Lautaro Movement (MJL)

Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR)

Izquierda Revolutionary Movement (MIR)

Fascists:

Liberty and the Fatherland (PyL)

Movement of April 19 (M-19)

Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces

National Liberation Army

Tupamaros

Armed National Liberation Forces

Bandera Roja

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Chapter 2: Red Army Faction

RAF, Red Army Faction, German: [ɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ( listen); Reverse Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoː.tə aʁˈmeː fʁakˌt͡si̯oːn] ( listen)), sometimes referred to as the Baader-Meinhof Gang or the Baader-Meinhof Group in German, Baader-Meinhof-Bande, German: [ˈbaːdɐ ˈmaɪ̯nˌhɔf ˈɡʁʊpə] ( listen), operational 1970–1998, was a 1970-founded far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerilla organization in West Germany.

The RAF identified itself as a communist, anti-imperialist, and urban guerrilla organization that was waging war against what it saw as a fascist state. When writing in English, RAF members frequently utilized the Marxist-Leninist term faction. and got assistance from the Stasi and other security agencies of the Eastern Bloc.

The group is occasionally discussed in terms of generations:

the first generation, which included Meinhof, Baader, and others; the second generation, following the arrest of the most majority of the first generation in 1972; and

the first generation, which perished at Stammheim Maximum Security Prison in 1977, gave way to the third generation, which lived in the 1980s and 1990s until 1998.

On April 20, 1998, an eight-page typewritten letter in German that was signed RAF with the submachine gun red star and forwarded to the Reuters news agency stated that the organization had disbanded.

The Red Army Faction is commonly translated into English, although its creators intended it to represent an emerging militant force that was integrated into or a component of a larger communist workers' movement, or a portion of a whole.

The Rote Armee Fraktion was