Irregular Warfare in the American West: The Geronimo Campaign

Abstract

During the height of his powers in the 1880s. Geronimo conducted an irregular warfare campaign against the U.S. Army. Geronimo's greatest adversary, General George Crook, developed a groundbreaking concept of operations to fight the Apaches. Crook employed Apache scouts and deployed small, mobile logistical units against his quarry. ideas initially dismissed by his senior officers, The Geronimo campaign bears similarities to current U.S. military operations, where a savvy enemy exploits porous borders and austere terrain to fight an asymmetrical war against American and coalition forces in Afghanistan. This paper examines how the lessons of the Geronimo campaign apply in America's modern-day irregular warfare campaigns.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 2010
Accession Number
ADA604413

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  • Raymond L. Adams

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  • Marine Corps University

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  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Abstracts
  • Afghanistan
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Civil War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Contracts
  • Families (Human)
  • Instructions
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Language
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Operations
  • Native Americans
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • United States
  • Warfare

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  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Military Science