Guerrilla Warfare

The use of small, specialized fighting groups to disrupt an adversary. Operations include attacks on supply line, destruction of resources, and assassinations

• 600 assassination attempts on Fidel Castro
• Explosive drone assassination attempt on Maduro
• Sabotage attempts behind the Iron curtain. For example, I heard an anecdote from the DDR where explosives were found ready to destroy a bridge carrying passenger trains.
• Stay behind units organized as part of operation Gladio where fascists were organized into terror cells and supplied with weapons caches in order to disrupt a potential Soviet advance into Western Europe

Proxy Warfare

The manipulation and supply of foreign fighters to fight in foreign wars without open engagement

• Bay of Pigs
• Iran-Iraq War
• Mujahedeen
• Contras
• South Vietnam
• Pol Pot’s invasion of Vietnam

Terrorist Warfare

The use of terrorist attacks on civilians in order to direct public sentiment and opinion

• Operation Gladio
• 1997 Cuba Hotel Bombings