Guerrilla Warfare - 20th and 21st Century Guerrilla Conflicts

20th and 21st Century Guerrilla Conflicts

Present ongoing guerrilla wars include:

The tactics of guerrilla warfare were used successfully in the 20th century by—among others— the Soviet partisans and the Polish Home Army and the OSS in Burma in World War II; Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and the 26th of July Movement in the Cuban Revolution. Ho Chi Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, Viet Cong and select members of the Green Berets in the Vietnam War (and the First Indochina War before that). The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Afghan Mujahideen in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, George Grivas and Nikos Sampson's Greek guerrilla group EOKA in Cyprus, Aris Velouchiotis and Stefanos Sarafis and the EAM against the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the German Schutztruppe in World War I, Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II, and the antifrancoist guerrilla in Spain during the Franco dictatorship, the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Kosovo War, and the Irish Republican Army led by Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence.

Most factions of the Taliban, Iraqi insurgency, Colombia's FARC, and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) are said to be engaged in some form of guerrilla warfare—as was, until recently, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). In India, Marathas under leadership of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj used it to overthrow of the Mughals. It was also effectively used by Tatya Tope and Rani Laxmibai in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, as well as by Pazhassi Raja of Kerala to fight the British. Other examples of recent guerrilla wars include:

Africa

• Angolan Civil War
• Darfur Conflict
• Ivorian Civil War
• Nigerian Oil Crisis
• Rhodesian Bush War
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Tuareg Rebellion (2007–2009)
• Uganda - Lord's Resistance Army
• Western Sahara War

Asia:

• Arab–Israeli conflict
• Balochistan conflict
• India - Communist insurgency

• Iran–Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan conflict
• Iraq War
• Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• South Thailand insurgency in Southern Thailand along the Malaysia-Thailand border
• Soviet war in Afghanistan
• Sri Lankan Civil War
• Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan

Europe

• Kosovo War
• Second Chechen War
• The Troubles

Latin America:

• Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), El Salvador - became a political party and have current presidency
• Nicaraguan Revolution
• Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity - became a political party
• 26th of July Movement - became the Cuban Communist Party
• Colombian armed conflict (1964–present)
• Internal conflict in Peru
• Shining Path
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Mexico - has been relatively non-violent since 1994