NCJ Number
32242
Journal
SKEPTIC Issue: 11 Dated: (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1976) Pages: 24-29
Date Published
1976
Length
6 pages
Annotation
DISCUSSION OF THE PRECONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS IN MODERN GUERRILLA WARFARE, THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN GUERRILLA TACTICS, AND THE FUTURE OF TERRORISM.
Abstract
CHARACTERIZATION AS A NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT AGAINST A COLONIAL POWER AND FOREIGN FINANCIAL BACKING ARE IDENTIFIED AS THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL GUERRILLA WARFARE. THE AUTHOR MAINTAINS, HOWEVER, THAT MORE AND MORE WHAT WAS KNOWN AS GUERRILLA WARFARE IS GRADUALLY GIVING WAY IN MANY COUNTRIES TO TERRORIST TACTICS, PURE AND SIMPLE, ON THE PART OF SMALL GROUPS GTRYING TO IMPOSE THEIR WILL ON THE MAJORITY IN THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER. HE MAINTAINS THAT THIS FACT, IN COMBINATION WITH THE INCREASING POLITICAL IMPATIENCE OF TERRORIST GROUPS AND AVAILABILITY OF HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED AND DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS, HAS PUT TERRORIST IN A POSITION TO EFFECTIVELY COMBAT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNEMNT.