Freischaren und Freikorps

(Guerilla Forces and Free Corps)

Lt. Gen. K. Adaridi German

The author, formerly a lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army, states that guerilla enterprises directed against the enemy’s lines of communications will always play an important role in war.

Published: April-June 1925

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Guerrilla Warfare and Motorization

Lt. Colonel Braun
Major Wm. H. Speidel, Infantry

The Chinese irregulars, also referred to in the foreign press as “partisans,” are giving the Japanese plenty of grief. They destroy bridges, set fire to gasoline and stores, commit violent assaults on people of importance, explode mines, raid troops, staffs and airports, even entire villages, incite rebellion, gather important military information which keeps Chiang Kai-shek constantly informed, and in an astonishing manner appear and disappear like ghosts. We only get meager information about their highly interesting fighting.

Published: December 1939

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Guerrilla Warfare

Captain Nelson J. Anderson, Chemical Warfare Service

A system of allocating priorities, the scheduling of the work load to provide maximum effectiveness, and its establishment as a major command are three prerequisites for an efficient airlift organization.

Published: April 1942

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Partisan Operations

Colonel Albert E. Harris, Cavalry Instructor, Command and General Staff Colleg

Modern warfare includes many phases other than just the engagement of armed forces. One of these phases, called “partisan operations,” involves the application of economic, political, and psychological, as well as military, pressures.It has proved a valuable weapon in past wars.

Published: August 1950

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Organization for Frontless Wars

Maj. Boyd T. Bashore, United States Army

What I am not going to say is this: “All that is required to fight counterinsurgency operations is a standard US infantry battle group or battalion.”

Published: May 1964

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Algiers-1957:

An Approach to Urban Counterinsurgency

Maj. Robert J. Kee, United States Army

... in accomplishing whatever mission the Army might be called upon to perform, it will reject those methods of expediency which disregard the basic dignity of man. To fail to do so would be to dishonor our heritage and to prove ourselves unworthy of the great responsibility entrusted to us by our nation.

Published: April 1974

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The Insurgency Threat and Ways to Defeat It

Captain Steven E. Daskal, US Air Force Reserve

Published: January 1986

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US Strategy and the Changing LIC Threat

Steven Metz

The post-Cold War environment offers many challenges to US interests. These certainly compound the tasks facing our strategic thinkers and planners. The author sees the need for a new strategy for the US role in low-intensity conflict that recognizes the dramatic changes occuning in the Third World and in the US Soviet relationship.

Published: June 1991

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