Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Womack said that Guevara was a good tactician of guerilla warfare but he was not a very successful revolutionary. He explained that "They won in Cuba not the way he said they did, but because the Cuban middle class was the most corrupt ever, and just folded...
Unfortunately, when federal victory comes it will not make much difference. Victory, in fact, could easily initiate a bloodier and longer guerilla war. The Federal Government has 12,000 troops to control a hostile population of over nine-million--difficult in any situation but tougher when the people are Ibos and the Federal conquerors mostly Hausa...
...bygones be bygones. "They are stubborn," says Amiel Fagbulu, soon to be Minister of Education in Nigeria's Western Region. "They know what they want and they fight for their rights." Colonel Ojukwu, the Biafran head-of-state, has reportedly armed 100,000 irregulars for long-term guerilla warfare...
...strategic moves -- like whether or not to bomb power plants too close to Haiphong harbor for fear of damaging Russian tankers -- people backing the Administration's generally militant policy also listen carefully to amateur military experts like Richard Nixon who like to become publicly involved in the minutiae of guerilla war decisions...
Harvard's ROTC faculty, however deny that the counter-insurgency instruction is a preparation of officers for Vietnam. They point out that counter-insurgency should be a part of modern military training, even if the United States is not fighting a guerilla...