Guerilla Warfare

What is the best way to combat it?

I don't think any western-industrialized nation has successfully won a war against an enemy using guerilla tactics without resorting to total destruction of all civillians and their property.

What do you think should be done against guerillas?

burn the country-side...
























WITH FLOWERS!

Napalm the forest.

Use Infra-red sensors to point out targets and mark them, then take care of them accordingly (unless im missing something here >.>) otherwise burn it i guess, but finding them and taking them out via special tactics units, or using airships to attack designated set spots, I think that'd be efficient without purging an entire sanction of forest of anything.

Burn them out.
In the case of Guerilla Warfare, you need to exercise superior support, artillery and airpower.

Basically, bomb da *** outta them, the cities and the countryside

The answer is simple

If Guerrillas are hiding a village, burn the village

If they are in the forest, Burn the Forest.

If they are dressing like civilians issue a shoot on sight command and issue warning to civilian population that they will be shot if troops are about in their town and they are in their way.

And if they are in the city, Take it, and don't let the guerrillas take it back

The reason most European influenced (England, USA, Australia Etc) Countries don't win against gorilla warfare is because we use chivalry.
Well, not really, but we follow the basic idea of it.
We could blow up the country, but we don't, because there are innocent civilian, well there are heaps of other countries that couldn't care if there are innocent civilians in the area they will blow up, just as long as those innocents belong to the opposing Countries/Force's, then it is fine because they know it will have an impact on the Government.

So far, pretty much all of these tactics have been used in the Vietnam War(I just finished reading a memoir by a soldier from that war) and they didn't work.

In the jungle particularly, you can't just burn all the villages, because they don't need the villages to survive.

Some may live there, but they aren't a vital resource for them.

Also, thermal-vision doesn't work in most places, in the jungle it's useless, in the desert at night, the insurgents just walk among the populace, or hide in their caves.

in the case of vietnam, the viet cong were getting support from north vietnam, we knew it


we could have invaded north vietnam (and started a war with russia, but that's not what this thread is about) to stop them from being able to hide everywhere

Napalm, Heat detecting goggles, heat signature satelites, flamethrowers, artillery, airstrike, gunships, etc.

The most effiecient way to defeat oponents fighting using guerilla tactics is to...

Exterminate the entire nations populace and destroy everything.

Perhaps not practical...

The best way to deal with guerilla warfare is to give them what they want. Then once they have it they will probably come out of hiding, then kill 'em.

unless....



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Deal with em like you'd deal with zombies: one square at a time...

Just keep securing land and moving real slow like...

Yes I am aware this is a terrible strategy.

NAPALM TEH FAHRESTS

PiEman wrote:total destruction of all civillians and their property.

why do you answer your own questions?

That's obviously not the best way.

The British did this in Africa (I forget which war, but it wasn't the Boer War) by putting civillians in concentration camps, and they were heavily criticized for it.

You should at least try to gain civillian support, because if you kill everything in the country, then what was the point of the war in the first place?

If it was to kill a certain group of people, obviously they won't just be in that country, and they'll gain more sympathy and support internationally.

In the case of the Viet Cong, they were mostly in South Vietnam, and if we tried to burn South Vietnam to the ground, then what was the point of trying to defend it?
The Communists couldn't use it, but neither could we, not to mention the massive loss of life.

You know the Viet Cong weren't really called that? It was just made up to sound scary for the public. Their real name was the Viet Min.

Good old Stephen Fry.

I actually did know that.

I just did a research project on the causes of the Vietnam War.

PiEman wrote:
You should at least try to gain civillian support, because if you kill everything in the country, then what was the point of the war in the first place?

Land, fear, resources.

I'd just like to point out that the main reason the VC existed was because Ngo Dinh Diem was a complete idiot. If he hadn't been put into office, the VC would not have been nearly as strong, if they were even formed.

...Thank God for Quang Duc...

If the option comes where you need to burn the land your defending thats called a scorched earth policy, if you cant have it then they shouldnt have it either.

It worked for russia multiple times.

And besides South vietnam was about political effects around the globe

if south Vietnam fell then most people feared it would cause a domino effect and we would lose all of southeast Asia

and If we won in south Vietnam communism would have crumbled as it would have been seen as weak as (at that time it would have lost two major conflicts)

The war was lost because he US troops were banned from invading north Vietnamese cities that were funding the rebels in south Vietnam.

Guerrila warfare is a gamble based on how determined the people you are using the strategy are in wiping you out, in SV we were "Holding the line" not "Cleaning house" like the Nazi's in Europe.

KristallNacht wrote:

PiEman wrote:
You should at least try to gain civillian support, because if you kill everything in the country, then what was the point of the war in the first place?

Land, fear, resources.

The point is, what use is the land or resources, when there's nothing but ashes?

PiEman wrote:
The point is, what use is the land or resources, when there's nothing but ashes?

the fact there's only ashes is better. its easier to build where there are no other buildings or trees or wildlife.

Fight fire with fire.

Have spies in the groups. Report activity. Ambush them. Then slowly conquer.