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Started by Salty, May 25, 2012, 05:52:31 AM

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Salty

Hey so I'm writing this story about a large group of people in an isolated environment who fight against their captors. I would really appreciate any recommendations from anyone here, I know there are a couple of you familiar with that kind of stuff, and I'd rather have something to start with instead of going in blind.

PLEASE/THANK YOU.
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Cain

Posting here to remind myself to go through my list of books on this topic later today.

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Placid Dingo

My friend was always into Che Guevarras guide on guerrilla warfare.

Also, the CIA guide to sabotage is great and can be found on Scribd.
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Salty

That Nicaraguan pamphlet is AWESOME, thanks PD.

I'm just trying to absorb as much info as possible so I can have some stuff to work with but things that come to mind are:
-commonly used, effective tactics used in guerrilla warfare.
-things that can be easily taught.
-how to apply these tactics to a small, heavily controlled population on the verge of total genocide.
-methods with few weapons.
-conditions much like a concentration camp.

The trouble is I don't know all the questions of problems yet, I just know I need more raw info.
The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

Cain

OK,

Guerrilla war tactics and strategy:

Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Che Guevara, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Canadian National Defence, Ambush and Counter-Ambush B-GL-392-008/FP-001
US Marine Corps, Counterguerrilla Operations FM-90-8/MCRP 3-33A
Department of Army, Guerrilla Operations and Special Forces FM 31-21
Department of Army, Threat Force: Paramilitary and Nonmilitary Organization and Tactics TC 31-93.3
Gubbins, SOE Partisan Leader and SOE Art of Guerrilla Warfare manuals
Alberto Bayo Giroud, 150 Questions to a Guerrilla
Major H. von Dach Bern, Total Resistance
Patrick Marques, Guerrilla Warfare Tactics in an Urban Environment


Easy Sabotage and Weapons

OSS Simple Sabotage Manual
CIA Nicuragua Manual
US Marine Corp Manual, Destruction by Demolition, Incendiaries and Sabotage
CIA, Improvised Sabotage Devices


Terrorism and Insurgency

Brian Jenkins, An Urban Strategy for Guerrillas and Governments
RAND Institute, Aptitude for Destruction Paper 1
Jarret Brachman, Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice
Carlos Marighella, Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla
Ariel Merari, Terrorism as a Strategy of Insurgency
Anderson and Nagaraga, The Topology of Covert Conflict



Responses to Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare, State Terror and Historical Reading

Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: the decisive role of guerrillas in the American Civil War
O'Farrell, Behind Enemy Lines: The Australian SAS in Vietnam
Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front
Tritle, From Melos to My Lai: War and Survival
Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City
Melguonouv, The Red Terror in Russia
Carlton, Occupation: the policies and practices of military conquerors
Sherry, Raiders and Rebels: A History of the Golden Age of Piracy
Armstrong, Soviet Partisans in WWII
Bisher, White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian
Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Rhodes, Masters of Death
Blakely, State Terrorism and Neoliberalism
Mazzei, Death Squads or Self-Defence Forces? How Paramilitary Groups Emerge and Challenge Democracy in Latin America
Gregory, Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin


That should probably do you.

Juana

Quote from: Alty on May 25, 2012, 06:56:58 AM
That Nicaraguan pamphlet is AWESOME, thanks PD.

I'm just trying to absorb as much info as possible so I can have some stuff to work with but things that come to mind are:
-commonly used, effective tactics used in guerrilla warfare.
-things that can be easily taught.
-how to apply these tactics to a small, heavily controlled population on the verge of total genocide.
-methods with few weapons.
-conditions much like a concentration camp.

The trouble is I don't know all the questions of problems yet, I just know I need more raw info.

Posting to demand that you post this when you're done.
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Salty

Quote from: Cain on May 25, 2012, 07:07:15 PM
OK,

Guerrilla war tactics and strategy:

Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Che Guevara, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Canadian National Defence, Ambush and Counter-Ambush B-GL-392-008/FP-001
US Marine Corps, Counterguerrilla Operations FM-90-8/MCRP 3-33A
Department of Army, Guerrilla Operations and Special Forces FM 31-21
Department of Army, Threat Force: Paramilitary and Nonmilitary Organization and Tactics TC 31-93.3
Gubbins, SOE Partisan Leader and SOE Art of Guerrilla Warfare manuals
Alberto Bayo Giroud, 150 Questions to a Guerrilla
Major H. von Dach Bern, Total Resistance
Patrick Marques, Guerrilla Warfare Tactics in an Urban Environment


Easy Sabotage and Weapons

OSS Simple Sabotage Manual
CIA Nicuragua Manual
US Marine Corp Manual, Destruction by Demolition, Incendiaries and Sabotage
CIA, Improvised Sabotage Devices


Terrorism and Insurgency

Brian Jenkins, An Urban Strategy for Guerrillas and Governments
RAND Institute, Aptitude for Destruction Paper 1
Jarret Brachman, Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice
Carlos Marighella, Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla
Ariel Merari, Terrorism as a Strategy of Insurgency
Anderson and Nagaraga, The Topology of Covert Conflict



Responses to Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare, State Terror and Historical Reading

Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: the decisive role of guerrillas in the American Civil War
O'Farrell, Behind Enemy Lines: The Australian SAS in Vietnam
Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front
Tritle, From Melos to My Lai: War and Survival
Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City
Melguonouv, The Red Terror in Russia
Carlton, Occupation: the policies and practices of military conquerors
Sherry, Raiders and Rebels: A History of the Golden Age of Piracy
Armstrong, Soviet Partisans in WWII
Bisher, White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian
Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Rhodes, Masters of Death
Blakely, State Terrorism and Neoliberalism
Mazzei, Death Squads or Self-Defence Forces? How Paramilitary Groups Emerge and Challenge Democracy in Latin America
Gregory, Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin


That should probably do you.

Damn! Thanks so much!
That takes care of my summer and winter reading. And that's awesome because I haven't been reading anything, fiction just doesn't hold me the way it used to.

Garbo: It'll be a good long while, but I'll definitely let you know if you'd like.
The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

Juana

"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

E.O.T.



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