Urban Guerrillas

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The complexity of the modern city makes it vulnerable: the poor man's weapons (the Molotov cocktail, the dynamite bomb) are effective against the rich man's technology.
How far does the urban guerrilla present a real threat to the present order of society ? This is the first book to define urban guerrilla warfare as a political and military technique, to survey all the most important contemporary urban guerrilla groups and to assess their effect so far and their chances for the future. It provides detailed case-studies of the IRA in Northern Ireland, the FLQin Quebec, the Weathermen in the United States, the Brazilian guerrilla groups and the Tupamaros in Uruguay.
The Latin American chapters point to the reasons why the 'Cuban Strategy' for rural guerrilla warfare „ failed and why the middle-class rebels who took to the hills in the steps of Che Guevara have now gone back to the cities they came from. This section also presents an acute analysis of the nature of the third-world... Tovább

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The complexity of the modern city makes it vulnerable: the poor man's weapons (the Molotov cocktail, the dynamite bomb) are effective against the rich man's technology.
How far does the urban guerrilla present a real threat to the present order of society ? This is the first book to define urban guerrilla warfare as a political and military technique, to survey all the most important contemporary urban guerrilla groups and to assess their effect so far and their chances for the future. It provides detailed case-studies of the IRA in Northern Ireland, the FLQin Quebec, the Weathermen in the United States, the Brazilian guerrilla groups and the Tupamaros in Uruguay.
The Latin American chapters point to the reasons why the 'Cuban Strategy' for rural guerrilla warfare „ failed and why the middle-class rebels who took to the hills in the steps of Che Guevara have now gone back to the cities they came from. This section also presents an acute analysis of the nature of the third-world city and its potential as an untapped jji reservoir for revolutionary leaders.
Finally, the book studies the effects of'international crimes' like hijacking and kidnapping, and the problems of government response.
Robert Moss gauges the past performance and future potential of each guerrilla movement dispassionately. He locates the chief danger posed by urban guerrillas to
western societies in the violent polarisation of political forces between revolution and reaction in which the moderates are often the losers. Vissza