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Guerrilla/counter-guerrilla campaigns

Key points

• Guerrilla vanguards need cause and support of people that is dependent upon regime’s unwillingness/inability to come to grips with crises of its own making.

Or more simply,

• Crises and vanguards represent the marriage of instability and initiative that create and expand guerrilla effort.

Hence,

• The thought occurs that in order to dry up a guerrilla upsurge, one should strike at those root causes or illegitimate inequalities that generate and exacerbate crises as well as provide a favorable climate for vanguards to form or operate in.

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