French Army‚ 1954-62: Experiences‚ Images‚ Testimonies. England: Palgrave Macmillan‚ 2002. Print. [ 4 ]. Tony Smith. The French Stake in Algeria‚ 1945-1962I. New York: Cornell University Press‚ 1978. Print. [ 5 ]. William Weir. Guerilla Warfare: Irregular Warfare in the Twentieth Century. United States: Stackpole Books‚ 2008. Print. [ 6 ]. John Talbott. The War Without A Name. Knopf: Random House‚ 1980. Print. [ 7 ]. Martin Alexander‚ Martin Evans‚ J.F.V. Keiger. The Algerian War and the French Army
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our world and our search for a technological advantage/perfection in warfare and where this might take us. Because of this I constructed three questions to help me understand this topic of how humans strive to gain a technological advantage in warfare. My first question is: what attitude did people have towards implementing new technology into warfare? My second question is: what cause and effect did new technology have on warfare? And finally: what would war in the future be like? I developed these
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concentrated their efforts in simply defeating the British. Their sole objective is to win; they did not have the luxury of being “civil” in their war tactics. This contrast is shown very well in several scenes from the movie. The first real display of guerrilla war tactics was used by Martin after the death of his son. He and his two sons ambushed a group of British soldiers. The soldiers were trapped inside a small road while Martin and his sons hid in the tree lines. They also had the advantage of having
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then became a Marxist and took his ideas to Cuba. Che and Castro started the Cuban Revolution‚ Che teamed up with Fidel Castro and together they were able to take down the oppressive dictator in Cuba; Fulgencio Batista. Che and Castro used guerilla warfare to defeat Batista and his troops. Castro became the leader of Cuba and Che was his second in command. Che was an extremely violent person during and after the Cuban Revolution. It is reported that Che executed more than 400 people. He is a symbol
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as ’foreign occupiers’. Furthermore‚ America faced much controversy over the war within its own borders‚ and therefore was fighting a war unpopular to its own people and the people which they tried to ’save’. Militarily the US failed to stop guerrilla warfare and committed many atrocities against the Vietnamese people. Ho Chi Minh (the leader of the North Vietnamese) on the other hand was a person supported by a lot of the Vietnamese (including many in the South)‚ because he gave the people what they
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and Guatemala. He traveled broadly‚ giving speeches and preaching his ideals of guerilla warfare and equality by socialism. He was a Marxist and wanted freedom for the peasants. In 1954‚ he met Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and his brother Raul while in Mexico. He later became part of Fidel Castro’s efforts to overthrow the Batista government in Cuba. He served as a military advisor to Castro and led guerrilla troops in battles against Batista forces. When Castro took power in 1959‚ He became in
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Colombia’s government and the rebel group FARC reached an agreement May 17‚ 2014 on ending the illegal drug trade. The deal called for FARC to cooperate with the government in convincing farmers to grow crops other than coca‚ which is used to make cocaine. The announcement was made Friday in Havana where the two sides have been negotiating an end to a 50-year-old insurgency. Colombia was the world’s leading producer of cocaine until Peru recently overtook it in cultivation of coca. The cocaine industry
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In‚ “Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village‚” Victor Montejo describes events surrounding the military régimes occurring throughout Guatemala. The book itself is an eyewitness account detailing one instance of violence between the indigenous peoples village’s "civil patrol" and the army. This occurrence leads to the execution and imprisonment of many villagers. Even though the book is mainly a testimony by one person‚ in which he discusses the personal conflicts and struggle between himself and
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that he was seeking. Guevara joined Castro followers at a farm where they were training for guerrilla war tactics. The tactics were those first used by Mao Tse-Tung. At this time‚ Ernesto Guevara first was nick named "Che"‚ which is Latin for pal. The group invaded Cuba‚ where Che was commander of the revolutionary army. From then on‚ he was known as the most aggressive‚ clever and successful guerrilla officer. He also got the reputation for cold-blooded cruelty. One reason for this reputation
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teenagers would be forced to respond to this new dangerous environment and the worries they shared about what had happened to their families. Secondly‚ change affected the way the teenagers had to start living. They had to turn into a “slick guerrilla outfit”. One that moved around at night‚ and lived off the land. They had to make camp in their safe haven “Hell” and plan raids against the attackers. USE QUOTES FROM THE BOOK ABOUT LIVING OFF THE LAND AND BECOMING A GUERILLA OUTFIT. From these
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