Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the da...ngers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of guerrilla warfare is to establish foci, or liberated areas, in the countryside and to set up small military units w...hich will gradually grow in strength, number and equipment--from squads to companies and regiments, eventually to divisions and armies, as in Yugoslavia and China during the Second World War--in order to fight battles against government troops. In the liberated areas, the guerrillas establish their own institutions, conduct propaganda and engage in other open political activities. None of this applies to terrorists, whose base of operations is in the cities, and who have to operate clandestinely in small units. Any major concentration would immediately expose them to retaliation by the government. The terrorists may be part of a political movement that engages in propaganda and other political activities (such as the IRA and the Basque ETA), but there is a strict division of labor between the legal and the military arms of the movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insurrection--by means of guerrilla bands--is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from ...a foreign yoke ... It is invincible, indestructible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is necessary to turn political crisis into armed crisis by performing violent actions that will force those in power to transfo...rm the military situation into a political situation. That will alienate the masses, who, from then on, will revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A merciless fate threw me into this maelstrom. I wanted much, I began much, but the gale of the world carried away me and my work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »