I.
BACKGROUND
II. The GUERRILLA WARFARE
II. GUERRILLA WARFARE BASIC
CONCEPT
III. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
IV. THE PRINCIPLES OF
GUERRILLA WARFARE
V. NPA RULES IN THE
GUERRILLA WARFARE
Because of the semicolonial and semifeudal
nature of the Phil Society, the present stage of
the Phil Revolution cannot but take a national –
democratic character.
It is a National Democratic Revolution, a
revolution seeking the liberation of the Filipino
people from foreign and feudal oppression and
exploitation.
National revolution principally it seeks to assert
national independence against US imperialism
and its local exploiting class.
The CPP tries to project that the present
revolution is a continuation and resumption of
the Philippine Revolution of 1896 and the
Filipino – American war, both ended in failure
under local bourgeoisie (Under the leadership
of Aguinaldo government).
The new national democratic revolution is led by the
proletarian, thru its party, the CPP.
The NDR is a part of the World proletarian Revolution.
In essence, the NDR is a peasant war.
The CPP thru the NPA is waging a guerrilla warfare or
an irregular war against the government.
II. GUERRILLA WARFARE
Guerrilla Warfare and the innovation made by
the Marxist Guerilla Worldwide, is about the
detailed text existent on La Guerra de
Guerrillas, the small bands, fought by Spanish
partisans against Napoleon’s invading armies,
refined to a politico-military science – part
Marxist – Leninist or Moist social theory, part
tactical innovation. “Robert Taber, The War of
the flea”
II. GUERRILLA WARFARE
Guerrilla is regarded by the Insurgents, as a
revolutionary war, engaging a civilian
population, or a significant part of such a
population, against the military force of a
established government.
Guerrilla forces start from a scratch, as what
Mao Zedong said, “ one spark can start a
prairie fire.”
II. GUERRILLA WARFARE
The war of the Viet Cong was both ideological
and intensely nationalistic.
Led by communist, it appealed not only to the
poor and exploited but also to a broad popular
front made up of those who, regardless of class
origin or interest, were unwilling to suffer
foreign occupation or to accept the cruelty and
corruption of military puppets installed by the
foreigner.
II. GUERRILLA WARFARE
In the Vietnam experienced, Social and
ideological motives were only part of the
picture.
Patriotism played a large part. For a multitude
of Vietnamese the war was simply the
continuation of the earlier struggle against
French and American colonialism.
III. BASIC GUERRILLA WARFARE
CONCEPTS
According to Mao Zedong," the particular aim
of war is to preserve oneself and to destroy the
enemy “.
Destroying does not mean to kill the military
forces one by one, but to take their guns and to
decrease its war capability.
Guerillas relies on the upsurge of popular will.
Guerrilla warfare is about the battle of the Mind
or a psychological warfare.
III. BASIC GUERRILLA WARFARE
CONCEPTS
Guerrillas need to project their revolution as the
work of the masses, so it is called the People’s
War.
The state of mind of the modern insurgent, the
guerilla fighter, whatever his slogan or his
cause; and his secret weapon, above and
beyond any question of strategy or tactics or
techniques of irregular warfare, is nothing more
than the ability to inspire this state of mind in
others.
III. BASIC GUERRILLA WARFARE
CONCEPTS
The defeat of the AFP or the overthrow of the
government, are secondary tasks, in the sense
that they come later.
The primary effort of the guerilla is to militate the
population, without whose consent no
government can stand for a day.
Guerilla fighter is a political partisan, an armed
civilian whose principal weapon, is not his rifle
but his relationship to the community, the nation,
in and for which he fight. “the war of the flea”
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
Class analysis of the Philippine society determines the
strategy and tactics of the CPP revolution;
Without a comprehensive view of the various classes
from a proletarian viewpoint, the CPP cannot determine
their real friends and their enemies;
Based on the class analysis of the Phil Society; the
motive forces or friends of the Phil Rev are the
Proletarian, peasantry, petty bourgeoisie and, at certain
times and to a limited extent, the National bourgeoisie.
The peasantry is the main force of the revolution.
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
The NDR is being led by the CPP, without the Party,
there can be no revolutionary movement;
The Party practical leadership and policies, determines
the course of the insurgents movement.
The Party acts as the general staff of the revolution; the
Party sees to it that correct strategy and tactics bring
the insurgents cause forward.
Class Contradiction is the primary strategy of the CPP.
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
The protracted people’s war and the CPP’s general
strategic line; To encircle the cities from the
countryside.
The CPP is vying time to accumulated strength and
establish its bases and its organ of political power.
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
The main strategic line of the NPA in waging guerrilla
warfare is consist of “making the countryside surround
the cities, gradually undermine the position of the
government, and finally straggle him to death.”
To execute this main strategic concept, the NPA shall
pursue and carry out the three integral concepts;
Agrarian Revolution, Rural base building and Armed
struggle in the countryside.
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
Agrarian Revolution
- shall serve as the center – piece of the NPA for
enticing the peasantry and the farm workers to support
and eventually join the armed struggle as a people’s
war.
- the people’s war becomes essentially a peasant
war, since the vast majority of the people in the
countryside are peasant and farm workers.
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
Rural Bases
- shall be established by the NPA in those red or
consolidated areas, consisting more or less of ten
contiguous barangays in two or more municipalities.
- the NPA is establishing a Guerrilla Fronts, Guerrilla
bases and an expansion area (Guerrilla zones).
- the NPA shall establish a central base in Luzon,
particularly in the well – inhabited, mountainous, and
widest area of Luzon.
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
Armed Struggle
- shall be launched by the NPA from the rural
bases on a protracted basis; interacting with the
waging of Agrarian Revolution and the development of
rural bases in a dialectical pattern.
- this armed struggle is basically a guerrilla warfare; a
combination of the guerrilla forces and the mobile
regular forces of the NPA.
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
To maximized the advantages and decrease
the disadvantages of the guerrilla forces, the
guerrillas adopt flexibility on its three basic
tactics; Dispersal, Concentration and Shifting.
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
DISPERSAL
- During conducting of Mass work;
- production work
- propaganda and education work
- organizing work
IV. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
Shifting
- When superior force of the AFP is
conducting military operation.
V. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
Concentration
- When conducting military operation or
tactical operation, training and others.
V. PRINCIPLES OF THE GUERRILLA
WARFARE
Determine the strategic orientation correctly,
oppose adventurism when on the defensive, and
oppose flightism when shifting from one place to
another.
Oppose guerrilla-ism in the Red Army, while
recognizing the guerrilla character of its
operations.
Oppose protracted campaigns and a strategy of
quick decision, and uphold the strategy of
protracted war and campaigns of quick decision.
V. PRINCIPLES OF THE GUERRILLA
WARFARE
Oppose fixed battle lines and positional warfare,
and favor fluid battle lines and mobile warfare.
Oppose fighting merely to rout the enemy, and
uphold fighting to annihilate the enemy.
Oppose the strategy of striking with two "fists" in
two directions at the same time, and uphold the
strategy of striking with one "fists" in one
direction at one time.
V. PRINCIPLES OF THE GUERRILLA
WARFARE
Oppose the principle of maintaining a large rear
service organization, and uphold the principle of
small ones.
Oppose an absolutely centralized command, and
favor a relatively centralized command.
Oppose the purely military viewpoint and the
ways of roving rebels, and recognize that the Red
Army is a propagandist and organizer.
V. PRINCIPLES OF THE GUERRILLA
WARFARE
Oppose bandit ways, and uphold strict political
discipline.
Oppose warlord ways, and favor both democracy
within proper limits and an authoritative discipline
in the army.
Opposean incorrect, sectarian policy on cadres,
and uphold the correct policy on cadres.
V. PRINCIPLES OF THE GUERRILLA
WARFARE
Oppose the policy of isolation, and affirm the
policy of winning over all possible allies.
Oppose keeping the Red Army at its old stage,
and strive to develop it to a new stage.
VI. NPA RULES ON THE GUERRILLA
WARFARE
Matatag na patakaran natin ang lumahok
lamang sa labanang kaya nating
ipagtagumpay. Kung hindi'y tumatalilis tayo sa
kaaway na hindi natin matatalo at humahanap
ng pagkakataong dagukan ang isang puwersa ng
kaaway na matatalo natin.
”Specific Characteristic of our
People’s War, AG (1975)”
VI. NPA RULES ON THE GUERRILLA
WARFARE
”Ginagamit natin ang patakarang "ilang
pangunahing pulo muna, at saka na ang iba".
Sa bawat pulo o bawat partikular na bahagi ng
pulong pinili nating paglunsaran ng sandatahang
pakikibaka, paunlarin natin ang pag-asa sa
sarili; panatilihin ang mga yunit gerilya sa
limitadong radyus sa isang takdang panahon
upang iwasan ang kalat na gawain ngunit
sapat pa ring maniobrahan”
”Specific Characteristic of our
People’s War, AG (1975)”
VI. NPA RULES ON THE GUERRILLA
WARFARE
“Sa ilang iskuwad, kailangang magkaroon ng
ilang sentro ng grabidad o ng tipunan maging sa
pansamantalang pag-urong o sa isang
konsentradong operasyon laban sa kaaway.
Kasabay nito, huwag nating kaligtaan
kailanman ang pangangailangang maging
makilos, na kadalasa'y humihinging magpalipat-
lipat ang gayong sentro.”
”Specific Characteristic of our
People’s War, AG (1975)”
