Guerrilla Warfare Theorists - Mao Zedong, Ahmad Shah Massoud, T. E. Lawrence, Vo Nguyen Giap, Michael Collins, John P. O'Neill, Hugo Spadafora (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Mao Zedong, Ahmad Shah Massoud, T. E. Lawrence, Vo Nguyen Giap, Michael Collins, John P. O'Neill, Hugo Spadafora, Che Guevara, Shamil Basayev, Nestor Makhno, Jonas Savimbi, David Kilcullen, Robert Baer, Georgios Grivas, Regis Debray, Eden Pastora, Walter Laqueur, Omar Mukhtar, Mohammad Zafar Masud, Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Douglas Ollivant, Omar Nasiri, Albert Levy, Michael G. Vickers, Abraham Guillen, H. John Poole, Alberto Bayo, Hans von Dach, Yousaf Borahil Almsmare. Excerpt: Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish pronunciation: June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967), commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture. As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout Latin America and was radically transformed by the endemic poverty and alienation he witnessed. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to conclude that the region's ingrained economic inequalities were an intrinsic result of capitalism, monopolism, neocolonialism, and imperialism, with the only remedy being world revolution. This belief prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Arbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raul and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorio...