Guerilla+War-nr

**Guerilla Warfare** The term means "little war" in Spanish, and the word, //guerrilla//, has been used to describe the concept since the 18th century, and perhaps earlier. //Guerrilla warfare// describes a conflict between armed civilians and a regular army, either foreign or domestic, where the armed civilians (the "irregulars") use tactics such as ambush, sabotage, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to strike a vulnerable target and withdraw almost immediately. The tactics of guerrilla warfare were used successfully in the 20th century by—among others— Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara's rebel army in the Cuban Revolution, Giap and the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War, the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Kosovo War, and the Irish.
 * Guerrilla warfare** is irregular warfare, conflicts in which a small group of combatants uses military tactics, like ambushes and raids, to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army.