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Within the Chinese Red Army, the concept of people's war was the basis of strategy against the Japanese, and against a hypothetical Soviet invasion of China. The concept of people's war became less important with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the increasing possibility of conflict with the United States over Taiwan. In the 1980s and ...
People's March – Voice of Indian Revolution Archived 28 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine, publication close to PW People’s War Group (PWG) , from South Asian Terrorism Portal Documentary on the history of the PWG Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine (video)
People's Republic of Angola, later Republic of Angola, and allies vs. Democratic People's Republic of Angola and allies Angola Burundian Civil War: 0.55–0.8 million [98] [99] [90] 1993–2005 Burundi vs. Ethnic Hutu vs. Tutsi Militants Rwanda and Burundi Second Punic War: 0.77 million [100] 218 BCE–201 BCE Roman Republic vs. Ancient Carthage
The count of Jan (People's) Militia is around 38,000 which is mostly composed of the tribal people who uses bows and arrows as their weapons and allegedly provide logistical support to the PLGA. [14] During her visit to the Maoist's guerrilla zones few years back, Arundhati Roy noted that the PLGA was 45% female, [ 13 ] but the recent analyses ...
[64] [65] [66] For instance, of the nine million people who were on the territory of the Byelorussian SSR in 1941, some 1.6 million were killed by the Germans in actions away from battlefields, including about 700,000 prisoners of war, 500,000 Jews, and 320,000 people counted as partisans (the vast majority of whom were unarmed civilians). [67]
The faction splintered into various groups supportive of Maoist ideology, claiming to fight a rural rebellion and people's war against the government. The armed wing of the Maoists is called the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, mostly equipped with small arms. They have conducted multiple attacks on the security forces and government workers ...
As a military doctrine, people's war emphasized the mobilization of the populace to support regular and guerrilla forces; the primacy of men over weapons, with superior motivation compensating for inferior technology; and the three progressive phases of protracted warfare—strategic defensive, strategic stalemate, and strategic offensive (see ...
BBC WW2 People's War is an online public history archive of World War II memories collected and published by the BBC.The project took input from June 2003 to January 2006, with the final archive holding 47,000 written testimonies and 14,000 photographs from members of the public, intertwined around 144 events.