War of the Masses: a Component of Guerrilla Warfare.

Abstract

The Colombian government and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces are in the middle of a peace process after more than fifty years of armed struggle. The FARC has been using Guerrilla Warfare as the way to fulfill its objective of power seizure, however, the peace process proves that FARCs military option was not successful. Using the teachings of Mao Tse-Tung, Vladimir Lenin, and Vo Nguyen Giap, FARC understood that a protracted war encompasses all forms of struggle and that it is more than just an armed struggle. In this specific case, the FARC has been developing a clandestine masses organization component in order to infiltrate social movements in its effort to alter the political landscape within the country, with the sole purpose of reaching is objective in a different way.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 2016
Accession Number
AD1022189

Entities

People

  • Carlos A. Padilla

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Insurgency
  • Law
  • Literature Surveys
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Mobile Phones
  • National Security
  • Political Movements
  • Political Systems
  • Terrorists
  • Urban Areas
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.