Guerilla Warfare Quotes
During his revolutionary battles in Kaingsi, Mao reduced his theory of guerrilla tactics to a poem:
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym. It was many years and millions of combatants sacrificed, but the Vietnamese resistance finally won.
“Amir” was the Arabic term for the commanding general or admiral. This is an important quotation as it shows that the ethics of war for the Muslims allowed guerilla warfare and formal pitched battles. Most Christians looked down upon guerilla warfare at the time.
The Boer farmers of South Africa invented commando tactics where they would surprise the British, hit and run. It was very effective. Although they could not win the war that way, the prolonged the battle against an overwhelmingly superior force setting an example of asymmetric warfare that lasted hundreds of years. The Sudanese to whom the General referred were the Islamic religious insurgents whom he had soundly defeated the year before in the Sudan. With their religious fervor they attacked en mass and although very courageous were not very effective.
Marion was the initiator of Guerilla Warfare and he and his men traveled lightly spending much time in the South Carolina swamps. They had few supplies and when chased by the British could not stop to hunt. The British called him the “Swamp Fox”. The American colonists at this point still thought of the British as “their countrymen.”
