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Summary: Guerrilla Warfare-Hasta Victoria Siempre!
Review: 7 stars actually! Excellent manual for the coming of age revolutionary, or one who wants to study what Guevara had to say about irregular warfare, and a critique of imperialist forces...This is a must read!
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Summary: Come on, how can you not like Che?
Review: A fine introduction to Che, the man, the revolutionary and his rhetoric. The material is comprehensive and objective. Moreover, it is well written and engaging.
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Summary: A Solid Book
Review: A fine introduction to Che, the man, the revolutionary and his rhetoric. The material is comprehensive and objective. Moreover, it is well written and engaging.
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Summary: Behind Che's 'foco' theory
Review: A very insightful description of what was like to fight a guerrilla warfare in Latin America in the revolutionary 1960s. However, I would say that instead of being the "bible" for revolutionary guerrillas, Che's book was more or less a set of guidelines that drew most of its theory from his experience in Cuba. Che thought the conditions for guerrilla warfare could be created, rather than resulting from a set of vital circumstances for a revolutionary army to evolve, such as widespread discontent with the status quo and a pattern of repression that comes prior to a popular armed struggle. Again, because Che takes his theory from the Cuban campaign, it only deals with rural warfare, in a predominantly rural country. Forty years afterwards, most of the population in Latin America live in Urban centers, and Che's theory is far outdated to deal with events nowadays
In "guerrilla warfare" Che still highlights an unavoidable truth: strong support from the population is vital to keep an insurgency alive, if not victorious.
The "Shining Path" guerrillas in Peru lost popular ground because they alienated the peasants by repressing them as bad as the Army
In Colombia, the FARC have lost to the army vast areas formerly under its control because they have engaged in atrocities that have brought about considerable support in favor of a hardline government
In contrast, the Zapatistas in southern Mexico still are holding on, because they have not only support in their country, but also abroad
The reviewer who said that guerrillas (not 'gorillas') could no longer deal with a sophisticated counterinsurgency army, may want to give a look at the Iraqi fiasco. A growing and more sophisticated (in tactics, not in equipment) guerrilla campaign is being fought every hour of the day in Iraq, with no sign of slowing down. I wish some good book about modern Urban guerrilla warfare, apart from Urbano's, would come out any time soon, in which the Iraqi model could analysed and compared to other similar situations
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Summary: That's my brother
Review: Although Ernie is my brother, I am giving this book only three stars. Sorry Ernie but no excuses.The cover is not very imaginative, and does not portray my beard correctly, second a better title would have been "This is your Life Che Guevara" you know like the TV show. I don't know why I care since I am dead anyway. By the way Ernie don't forget to pick up some cereal for mom she knows that I've been very busy being dead and all
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Summary: That's my brother
Review: Although Ernie is my brother, I am giving this book only three stars. Sorry Ernie but no excuses. The cover is not very imaginative, and does not portray my beard correctly, second a better title would have been "This is your Life Che Guevara" you know like the TV show. I don't know why I care since I am dead anyway. By the way Ernie don't forget to pick up some cereal for mom she knows that I've been very busy being dead and all
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Summary: Che'
Review: An interesting read...if you're in the process of trying to overthrow a third-world dictatorship....With the exception of Cuba, Che was never involved in a successful, much less serious, insurgency against a standing government. Many of the lessons taught by Che in the book, some of which were practiced by the Viet Cong are useless against a well equipped and trained counter-insurgency force, as was the case in the later part of Vietnam. A fact few people realize is that the Viet Cong insurgency had been crushed by the end of the tet offensive, and even before then their achievments had been minimal at best. Che's own lessons, in the end, helped very few people, including himself. The Congo was a disaster for him, and in the end he was killed by Bolivian forces guided by CIA operatives and Green Berets.
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Summary: Buy it. Read it. Understand it. Live it.
Review: As time progresses, things change. This masterpiece shall be read forever
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Summary: Che Guevara has a wonderful book
Review: Che Guevara delivers a wonderful message on how to ruthlessly smite your foes by KILLING THEM. Wow, what a great message, this book should be read in Kindergarten classes and at church
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Summary: A book that all of you should read to understand.
Review: Che Guevara is a very intelligent man. In his writing of
Guerilla WarFare, he did a very good job. He is my idol.
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