Do any of you have sources on the noms de guerre of any Marxist revolutionary? According to the Wikipedia articles on noms de guerre "Revolutionaries and resistance leaders, such as Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Golda Meir, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Josip Broz Tito, often adopted their noms de guerre as their proper names after the struggle." And while I was reading "Diario de un combatiente" by Che, there were some mentions of their noms de guerre, but I forgot to write them down and I don't know in which pages it was mentioned.

I checked Wikipedia, EcuRed and ProleWiki and none of them have them, but they obviously existed. I think it would be something nice to keep archived.

Alejandro, nombre de guerra de Fidel. pg. 19 Salvador, David, nombre de guerra de Ftank País. pg. 76, 107 Sierra enrique oltuski 227

This is what the US Military/CIA gave the contras back in the day, in South America.

It's a bit old now but the chemistry hasn't changed. Focuses on explosives and how to make and trigger them, with stuff that you can reasonably find in a guerilla situation.

I uploaded this file on zippyshare myself, it's safe to download.

This is an online collection of course material that would be used for teaching Soviet, WP, and other allied officers military theory and doctrine.

How to wage guerilla warfare in the age of the hydrogen bomb.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/139677

And we're using our enemy's handbook for further humiliation 😎

So to recap:

• gasoline is the base
• paint thinner to help the cocktail spread, the typical mixture is 50/50
• styrofoam to help thicken it and conserve thermal heat (logically you wouldn't use it with paint thinner, thick molotov for pinpointed damage and thin molotov for crowd control)
• weak bottles; the mixture has to explode everywhere, not stay in the bottle. Beer and wine bottles are surprisingly tough. You can weaken it by etching streaks in it, or find a beer brand that makes weak bottles.
• a chemical igniter is safer than lighting a rag on fire, but can be more difficult to make. A simple igniter is soaking a rag in sugar and potassium chlorate, then put sulfuric acid in the mixture. What I believe needs to happen is for the rag to touch the mixture, which should happen after you throw the molotov or while you are throwing

This book presents the memoirs of Marshal Peng Dehuai, the outstanding general who was one of the builders of the Chinese Red Army and who served as Vice-Premier of the State Council and Minister of Defence until mid-1959. The autobiographical notes were written in response to interrogations during the “Cultural Revolution” (1966-76).

This is a very small channel that is simulating a conflict (excepted to grow up to a full war) between China and the USA over the Spratly Islands.

First episode was released about 10 days ago, which showed the first day of the war. As of yet we are still waiting for day 2.

The scenario pits two players against each other, and I think it's of interest because of the detail he goes into when describing weapons, aircraft, and even the rules of engagement. Notably the conflict starts with only air-to-air engagement allowed, but expect that to evolve as the series goes on.

Please excuse the source material, but to my knowledge all modern armies follow this template to a certain extent.

In fact, it's nothing new and we can't even say that the Americans invented this organisation. The Romans, some 2000 years ago, already divided their huge armies in smaller units so that they had flexibility both in practice and theory -- that is at every level of the hierarchy, while the higher levels represent theory (strategy) and the lower levels practice (execution). This was maybe not novel to some armies they fought, but some of the armies they fought were not structured this way... and were utterly defeated.

Clearly this structure has left its mark and perhaps it is this union of theory and practice that makes it the most effective army structure available today still.

Please note that this graphic only shows the size of each chunk, and not their composition. For example we know nothing of how many tanks or artillery cannons are

These animated youtube videos are, I think, an excellent overview of the Eastern Front of WW2 from a tactical and strategical perspective. They show mostly the battle plans and how the formations advanced and why. It's very detailed and the takeaway I have from it is: always do pincer attacks. Cut the enemy off from their supplies, and that way you will be able to take away whole battalions, maybe even divisions.

Conversely, protect your logistical paths. You cannot afford to let the enemy cut off your troops, and must resupply them as much as possible -- during the siege of Leningrad (which lasted more than 2 years and to this day is the largest siege in the history of humanity), the Soviets used the frozen lake Lagoda to resupply the city and evacuate the civilian population. Indeed, it was frozen enough that trucks could drive on it.

There definitely needs to be a post about the siege of Leningrad on this sublemmy, because there is a ton of things we can learn from it.

This is a documentary series on the eastern front of WW2. Not a book, but it contains a lot of dissections of tactical situations the red army found themselves in, and how they got out of them.

One big thing that stuck out to me, was that in modern warfare, supply chains and flow of resources is just as important as the actual fighting and tactics. If you're cut off from resources, you're done.

Of course it would be meaningless to introduce Che Guevara to ML comrades. But nonetheless, for the newcomers, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentinian revolutionary who grew up in a petty bourgeois background. After travelling throughout South America and noticing the conditions in which the proletariat lived, he turned to marxism-leninism, later famously saying (to ML at least) "I have sworn before a portrait of the late lamented comrade Stalin that I will not rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated."

He joined forces with Fidel Castro and participated in the Cuban revolution in a military capacity, as leader one of the four guerilla armies -- I am unsure of his exact rank.

After the revolution, he briefly server as minister of justice signing death warrants among other things, then later as minister of industry, working to industrialize Cuba under the embargo.

He left in the early 60s to fight in other revolutions, notably in Congo and afterwards in Bolivia, where

I'm pretty sure everyone knows this book by now. I think to some extent you can thank capitalism for commodifying such an old work written far before capitalism, and much further than the author could ever anticipate. At the same time, the wide reach of this very short book turned it into something more -- workplace guides have been written for managers about it. Self-help gurus also use it to "help" individuals with their "problems".

But this is exactly why the art of war is still worth being read today. More than the military tactics presented in it, it's possible to understand the dialectics behind its commodification into a capitalist product.

It's also a very short read that will take you less than an afternoon to read.

von Clausewitz was a liberal and a bourgeois living in the 18th century, and yet his defining work, On War, is still relevant today.

Notably, he shows a certain dialectical thinking that was not seen by his contemporaries at the time. It's no surprise then that Lenin and Mao were acquainted with his work and cited him -- you may heave heard "War is only a continuation of State policy by other means" (or in different terms). This is straight from Clausewitz. He also explains that war will grow in scope as it goes on, as either forces will commit only as few resources as possible in the early stages, hoping for early victory, but will have to increase their efforts if the conflict goes on.

His book is very, very dense. I own a physical copy and it's more than 1000 pages of text in a format slightly smaller than standard paper. He also doesn't write in the most accessible manner, and he died before he could complete his work -- so probably some editing would have been done.

Not only do

This short book comes from Ancient China, and is possibly even older than Sun Tzu's Art of War. As the story goes, the parchment was discovered by a KMT officer in the 40s completely by accident. The parchment he discovered was a reprint done under the Qing dynasty of an older parchment, so who knows how old it actually is.

It was first published to the public in 1989 in Beijing by the PRC, and most editions today add short tales to illustrate the stratagem -- the original parchment was very short and each strategy was explained in about 5 or 6 words.

I also think there was some dialectic at work in these stratagems. Stratagem 2 for example:

When the enemy is too strong to attack directly, then attack something he holds dear. Know that in all things he cannot be superior. Somewhere there is a gap in the armour, a weakness that can be attacked instead.

I think to some extent we have all the laws of dialectic. Of course since this was written way, way back in the past, the auth

H. Von Dach was a Swiss major who wrote his book on guerilla resistance after WW2, expecting a soviet invasion that never came. The idea was to distribute this book to pockets of resistance fighting guerilla warfare against an occupying force.

Despite the reactionary origins, and despite the fact that Switzerland did not participate in WW2 in a military capacity, his book remains full of good information and is perfectly illustrated with diagrams and drawings.

While many of the tactics will not work today (for example, he explains how to derail a train by hitting the fishplates, but modern train lines are one continuous rail now), some of it is still applicable. Moreover we should point out the absolute no-nonsense mentality presented in this book. This manual will teach you how to kill a man silently. It will teach you how to store ammunition for your guerilla cell. It will tell you how to conduct an ambush. And as I mentioned above, it will explain to you and your cell how to derai