Guerrilla warfare isn’t a single doctrine. It’s a pattern: smaller, weaker forces using mobility, local knowledge, and persistence to wear down far stronger militaries. From the Spanish resistance to Napoleon, to Mao’s insurgency model in China, to the Viet Cong and the Afghan mujahideen, the same principles repeat—ambushes, sabotage, disruption of supply lines, reliance on civilian networks, and the patient use of time as a weapon.
States respond with overwhelming force, surveillance, and emergency powers, but those measures often feed the cycle of resistance rather than end it. The history of guerrilla warfare is less a manual on tactics than a record of how power and resistance reshape each other across centuries.
I’ve put together a professional PDF field guide that organizes this history into clear sections: principles, common tactics, organization, and historical case studies. It’s written as a reference tool—analytical and educational, not instructional.
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